Price: 0.10 USD
Pages: 68
On-sale Date: 1942-02-17
Editing: Whitney Ellsworth (credited as F. W. Ellsworth) (editor); Mort Weisinger (actual editor)
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Green Arrow / cover / 1 page

Pencils:
George Papp (signed)
Inks:
George Papp (signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
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  • Genre:superhero
Characters:
Green Arrow; Speedy
Reprints (1)

Issue Data

Indexer Notes

On-sale date from copyright registration.

Editorial Advisory Board
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promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.33 page

Liberty of Death
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Good Books Worth Reading / in-house column / 0.67 page

The Black Raider!
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Green Arrow / comic story / 13 pages

Script:
Pencils:
George Papp (signed)
Inks:
George Papp (signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:superhero
Characters:
Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]; Speedy [Roy Harper]; Black Raider (boat); Captain Kilgore (villain); Johnny James
Synopsis:
Green Arrow battles pirates on the high seas.
Reprints (1)

Indexer Notes

Speedy is blond.

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Shorty / comic story / 0.5 page

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  • Genre:humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:This sea life is great

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All-Star Comics / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page

[The Wax Museum Killers]
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Doctor Fate / comic story / 10 pages

Script:
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  • Genre:superhero
Characters:
Doctor Fate [Kent Nelson]; Inza Carmer; Goliath (villain); Jesse James; Nero; Captain Kidd
Synopsis:
Doctor Fate must face the prospect of battling wax figures of history's greatest villains that have come to life.
Reprints (1)

Indexer Notes

Letterer credit and modified synopsis added by Craig Delich.

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"Super" Duper; Canada Dry Ginger Ale / advertisement / 1 page

The Case of the Phantom Fugitive
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Radio Squad / comic story / 6 pages

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  • Genre:detective-mystery; crime
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Twice the desperate young man escaped from the police, who suspected him of kidnapping a banker's daughter -- and the second time meant trouble at headquarters for Larry Trent and Sandy Keene, radio squad aces --- the way out of that trouble led...
  • Universe:DC : mainstream
Characters:
Radio Squad James Hart; Lois Hart; Joe Leeds; Pete
Synopsis:
A banker's daughter is kidnapped and her boyfriend is the prime suspect.

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Aquaman / comic story / 10 pages

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  • Genre:superhero
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:The Sargasso Sea! Unfathomable wonder of the waters!
Characters:
Aquaman; Master Sargasso (villain)

Indexer Notes

Script credit from Bob Hughes via textual analysis: excessive use of passive voice, run on sentences held together by ellipses.

Strange Acquaintance
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text story / 1.7 pages

Script:
Norman Goss (signed)
Letters:
typeset
  • Genre:adventure

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advertisement / 0.3 page

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 12)

Clancy the Cop / comic story / 1 page

Script:
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Letters:
  • Genre:humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Boy- That's the life!?

Death's Dividends
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Johnny Quick / comic story / 8 pages

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  • Genre:superhero
Characters:
Johnny Quick [Johnny Chambers]; Dr. Clever (villain); Tubby Watts; A. V. Keith; Silky Smith; Cannonball Carter

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Chief Hot Foot / comic story / 1 page

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  • Genre:humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:No Swimming

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Private Pete / comic story / 0.5 page

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  • Genre:humor; military
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:There - This bear trap ought to catch any spies luring around...

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Prize Comics / advertisement / 0.25 page

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Adventure Comics / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.25 page

The Magic Crimes
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The Spectre / comic story / 10 pages

Script:
Jerry Siegel (signed)
Pencils:
Bernard Baily (signed)
Inks:
Bernard Baily (signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:superhero
Characters:
The Spectre [Jim Corrigan]; The Glowing One (villain); Percival Popp; Kati Lugi
Synopsis:
Kati Lugi hires Popp to help with his magic act, but a spook called the Glowing One keeps interrupting and robbing the audience...or is it Popp that's doing the robbing?

Now on Sale
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promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page

[no title indexed]
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Baby Ruth / advertisement / 1 page

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Table of Contents ToC
    Table of Contents
  1. [no title indexed]
    Green Arrow
  2. Editorial Advisory Board
  3. Liberty of Death
    Good Books Worth Reading
  4. The Black Raider!
    Green Arrow
  5. ["This sea life is great"]
    Shorty
  6. ["500 years into the future..."]
    All-Star Comics
  7. [The Wax Museum Killers]
    Doctor Fate
  8. ["Gosh! That ice cream hi-ball tasted good!"]
    "Super" Duper; Canada Dry Ginger Ale
  9. The Case of the Phantom Fugitive
    Radio Squad
  10. ["The Sargasso Sea! Unfathomable wonder of the waters!"]
    Aquaman
  11. Strange Acquaintance
  12. [no title indexed]
  13. ["Boy- That's the life!?"]
    Clancy the Cop
  14. Death's Dividends
    Johnny Quick
  15. ["No Swimming"]
    Chief Hot Foot
  16. ["There - This bear trap ought to catch any spies luring around..."]
    Private Pete
  17. [no title indexed]
    Prize Comics
  18. [no title indexed]
    Adventure Comics
  19. The Magic Crimes
    The Spectre
  20. Now on Sale
  21. [no title indexed]
    Baby Ruth
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  • mcomics
  • Ray Bottorff Jr
  • Michael Bradley
  • Craig Delich
  • Bob Hughes
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Tony R. Rose
  • Per Sandell
  • Evaristo Lito Sandoval
  • Adam Spector
  • Daniel Thingvold
  • Jim Van Dore
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