Volume: 1
Price: 0.10 USD
Pages: 68
On-sale Date: 1940-06-26
Editing: David Adams (editor)

Issue Data

  • Indicia / Colophon Publisher: ?
  • Indicia Frequency: ?
  • Printer: ?

Indexer Notes

The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1941, New Series, Vol. 36, No. 1.

[The Perilous Planetoid Trap]

Spacehawk / comic story / 10 pages


  • Genre:science fiction
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:On a tiny planet in outer space, two strange beings...
  • Keywords:Pluto
Characters:
Spacehawk; Zorg (first appearance; villain; death); Jark (first appearance; villain; death); A girl (first appearance)
Synopsis:
Pirates Zorg and Jark control a small planetoid and use it to lure spaceships to crash. Spacehawk unmasks to reveal his human face.
Reprints (4)

Indexer Notes

In this story, Spacehawk encounters the same girl he rescued in the previous issue, though she is still unnamed.

[The Black Rust Racket]

White Streak / comic story / 12 pages


  • Genre:superhero
Characters:
Ranow (first appearance; villain; death); Prof. Simms (first appearance)

Ghost Star (Part 1)

Spacehawk / text story / 2 pages


  • Genre:science fiction

Indexer Notes

Spacehawk; illustrations not by Wolverton

[The Kohinoor Diamond]

The Chameleon / comic story / 6 pages


  • Genre:superhero
Characters:
The Chameleon [Peter Stockbridge]; Slim (Stockbridge's driver); Mrs. Carpenter; Hans Gunlau (jewel cutter); Clancy (Policeman); James Brighton (villain, introduction); Butch (villain); Limpey Lew (villain); Jake (villain)
Synopsis:
The Chameleon learns of the theft of the famed Kohinoor Diamond, and traces it to one James Brighton, who intends to waylay a famed jewel cutter and to have the stone cut into smaller diamonds for quick sale.
Reprints (1)

[The Return of Slick Carson]

Bull's-Eye Bill / comic story / 6 pages


  • Genre:western-frontier
Characters:
Slick Carson (villain; death)

[The Construction Saboteurs]

T-Men / comic story / 6 pages


  • Genre:detective-mystery
Characters:
"T-Man" Turner

Indexer Notes

Creator credits confirmed by Shaun Clancy and the Comics History Exchange list on Facebook from the personal records of Larry Antonette which included pages of stories he worked on torn from the original comic books (21 February 2015).

[The Attack of General Z: Part 1]

Calling 2-R / comic story / 8 pages


  • Genre:adventure; science fiction
Characters:
General Z and his Z-Men (first appearance; villains)
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