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)

[no title indexed]

Green Arrow / cover / 1 page


  • Genre:superhero
Characters:
Green Arrow; Speedy
Reprints (1)

Issue Data

Indexer Notes

On-sale date from copyright registration.

Editorial Advisory Board

promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.33 page

Liberty of Death

Good Books Worth Reading / in-house column / 0.67 page

The Black Raider!

Green Arrow / comic story / 13 pages


  • 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.

[no title indexed]

Shorty / comic story / 0.5 page


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

[no title indexed]

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

[The Wax Museum Killers]

Doctor Fate / comic story / 10 pages


  • 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.

[no title indexed]

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

The Case of the Phantom Fugitive

Radio Squad / comic story / 6 pages


  • 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.

[no title indexed]

Aquaman / comic story / 10 pages


  • 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

text story / 1.7 pages

Script:
Norman Goss (signed)
Letters:
typeset

  • Genre:adventure

[no title indexed]

advertisement / 0.3 page

[no title indexed]

Clancy the Cop / comic story / 1 page


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

Death's Dividends

Johnny Quick / comic story / 8 pages


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

[no title indexed]

Chief Hot Foot / comic story / 1 page


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

[no title indexed]

Private Pete / comic story / 0.5 page


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

[no title indexed]

Prize Comics / advertisement / 0.25 page

[no title indexed]

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

The Magic Crimes

The Spectre / comic story / 10 pages


  • 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?

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page

[no title indexed]

Baby Ruth / advertisement / 1 page

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