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Issue Details

Issue V4#1 [37]
Published March 1943
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing Stanley Beaman (uncredited)

Cover Details - "The Ghost Came to Life"

Characters Dan Merry; Kit Carter
Pencils John Jordan (signed)
Inks John Jordan (signed)

1 page Ye Editors' Page letters page

Letters typeset
Notes Includes letter from Peter Morisi, Brooklyn, NY.

12 page Cadet story "The Ghost Came to Life"

Characters Kit Carter; Dan Merry
Synopsis Kit meets redhead Glenda Blake at a social, but soon has to rescue her when she is abducted by would-be thieves.
Genre Adventure
Script ? [as Cuthbert] (signed)
Pencils John Jordan (signed)
Inks John Jordan (signed)
Notes Title from cover.

7 page Al T. Tude story "Study these faces!!"

Characters Al T. Tude; Willie Rodent (villain)
Synopsis Lawyers tell Al T. Tude that he has been left a fortune by his recently-deceased uncle. The Uncle's will requires Al to prove his worth, though, by besting the cut-throat Willie Rodent in a race to the hidden treasure.
Genre Humor
Pencils Art Gates (signed)
Inks Art Gates (signed)

6 page Bull's-Eye Bill story "How'd he die, Uncle Ike?"

Pencils John Daly
Inks John Daly

6 page Fantastic Feature Films story "Gulliver's Travels Part 4"

Script Jonathan Swift; ? (adaptation)
Pencils Harold DeLay
Inks Harold DeLay

2 page text story "A Pinch of Salt"

Script Justin Dewey Triem
Letters typeset

6 page Dan'l Flannel story "Sech be-e-ootiful teeth!"

Characters Dan'l Flannel; Abu the Mystic; Uncle Dud
Synopsis Dan'l sees Abu the Mystic's show when the circus comes to town, and Abu becomes grateful when Dan'l saves him from robbers. In return, Abu grants Dan'l mental powers. Dan'l reads his Uncle Dud's mind and becomes disturbed by what he sees there.
Pencils Ed Ryan
Inks Ed Ryan
Notes Story continues next issue.

8 page Target and the Targeteers story "He proclaimed himself God..."

Characters Adolf Hitler (dies this story); Niles Reed (the Target); Ed Ryan (the artist as himself); Satan; God (portrayed as an electrically charged cloud with protruding hands)
Synopsis Bizarre story, narrated by Niles Reed (The Target) to Ed Ryan in which The Target captures Hitler with the plan of bringing him back to the American justice system. On the way back, God appears to them as a speaking cloud with protruding hands, and puts Hitler through a series of trials before releasing him into a hail of Nazi machine gun bullets.
Genre superhero
Pencils Edward Ryan (signed); Sid Greene (in collaboration with...)
Inks Edward Ryan (signed)
Notes Ed Ryan draws himself into the story

5 page Speck, Spot, and Sis story "Speck's one great interest in life these days is his gang"

Synopsis Speck's annoying little sister out-performs him in selling war saving stamps, and Speck sees that his hold on the gang's leadership is slipping.
Genre humor
Script Alonzo Vincent (signed)
Pencils Alonzo Vincent (signed)
Inks Alonzo Vincent (signed)
Colors Alonzo Vincent

10 page Pete Stockbridge, The Chameleon story "The scoop of the year gives Pete Stockbridge his biggest heartache..."

Characters Pete Stockbridge [The Chameleon]
Pencils Al Fagaly (signed)
Inks Al Fagaly (signed)

1 page Targetoons filler "Go scare someone to death"

Genre Humor
Pencils Norman Oliver (signed)
Inks Norman Oliver (signed)
Notes The possibility exists that "Norman Oliver" is a pen-name of Martin Filchock.