Issue: #4
Published: May 1940, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing: Abner Sundell
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age US Paper Stock: Glossy Cover, Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing
Notes: Some info verified using a DCM scan (http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/)
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. 3.
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Cover (1 page) |
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Featuring: |
Steel Sterling |
Credits: |
Pencils: Charles Biro [as Biro] (signed) | Inks: Charles Biro [as Biro] (signed) |
Characters: |
Steel Sterling |
Comic Story (1 page) |
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Featuring: |
Mugsy |
Credits: |
Script: Kin Platt [as Quincy] (signed) | Pencils: Kin Platt [as Quincy] (signed) | Inks: Kin Platt [as Quincy] (signed) |
Genre: |
Humor |
Characters: |
Mugsy (dog) |
Comic Story (6 pages) |
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Featuring: |
Scarlet Avenger |
Synopsis: |
The Scarlet Avenger has come to grips with Texa, a beautiful Amazon, the queen of crime. She will use his powerfull brains in her next crime, to snatch the president. |
Credits: |
Script: Harry Shorten (credited) | Pencils: Irv Novick [as Irving Novick] (signed) | Inks: Irv Novick [as Irving Novick] (signed) |
Genre: |
Superhero |
Characters: |
The Scarlet Avenger (Jim Kendall) Texa (Villain) President Franklin D. Roosevelt |
Comic Story (8 pages) |
Yat Sing's Poison Plot |
Featuring: |
Captain Valor |
Synopsis: |
Captain Valor and Big Dip are led into a trap by a girl named Tania and fall into the hands of Yat Sing, who prepares to execute them. |
Credits: |
Script: Abner Sundell [as Sundall] (credited) | Pencils: Mort Meskin [as Meskin] (signed) | Inks: Mort Meskin [as Meskin] (signed) |
Genre: |
Adventure |
Characters: |
Captain Valor Ronnie His Sister Angie Big Dip Yat Sing (Villain) Tania (Villain) |
Comic Story (8 pages) |
The Daughter of the Mermen |
Featuring: |
Zambini the 'Miracle Man' |
Synopsis: |
The mermen beneath the sea have sent their great wizard, Magi, to America to bring back a young girl who is their last descendant on earth. |
Credits: |
Script: Joe Blair | Pencils: Elmer Wexler [as El Wexler] (signed) | Inks: Elmer Wexler [as El Wexler] (signed) |
Genre: |
Superhero |
Characters: |
Zambini (magician) Magi (Villain Introduction) |
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