Issue: #8
Published: December 1939, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing: Victor Fox
Color: Color Dimensions: 7 1/2" X 10 1/4" (19.1 Cm X 26 Cm) Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Notes: On sale date from the publication date and volume number found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 34, 1939, Number 4. Second class periodical. Copyright number 432887.
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| Cover (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
Flame |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Lou Fine | Inks: Lou Fine |
| Comic Story (8 pages) |
The Golden Amulet |
| Featuring: |
Yarko the Great, Master of Magic |
| Synopsis: |
Madame Punjai has obtained the Golden Amulet, which gives her the power over death, and she calls forth Death in order to kill young Carla Dennis whose beauty she hates. Yarko is asked by Sir Arthur Dennis to look into the matter and restore his daughter, if he can. Yarko tracks down Madame Punjai and takes her into the Land of Death, to show her what she has done. Defeating several demons, Yarko takes her to the Hall of Time, where her beauty is restored. Learning that that beauty will only last in death, she requests Death to take her life and restore Carla to life. |
| Credits: |
Script: Will Eisner ? | Pencils: Bob Powell | Inks: Bob Powell |
| Genre: |
Superhero |
| Characters: |
Yarko Carla Dennis (introduction, Sir Dennis' Daughter, Dies But Restored To Life) Sir Arthur Dennis (introduction, Scottish Diplomat) Dennis' Un-named Servant Madame Punjai (villain, Introduction, Death) Burning Pain (villain, A Demon, Introduction) Horror (villain, A Demon, Introduction) Fear (villain, A Demon, Introduction) Death (villain, Introduction) |
| Comic Story (6 pages) |
The Terror |
| Featuring: |
Shorty Shortcake |
| Credits: |
Script: S. M. Iger [as Jerry Williams] | Pencils: S. M. Iger | Inks: S. M. Iger |
| Comic Story (6 pages) |
Action In Switzerland |
| Featuring: |
Patty O'Day |
| Credits: |
Script: Claire Moe | Pencils: Claire Moe [Vic Todd] | Inks: Claire Moe |
| Text Story (2 pages) |
Tommy Taylor, the Great Boy Adventurer |
| Credits: |
Script: S. M. Iger | Pencils: Powell (illos) | Inks: Powell (illos) | Letters: typeset |
| Characters: |
Tommy Taylor |
| Comic Story (5 pages) |
The Dust of the Dead Men On Hangtown |
| Featuring: |
Tex Maxon |
| Credits: |
Script: Munson Paddock | Pencils: Munson Paddock [Cecilia Munson] | Inks: Munson Paddock |
| Comic Story (2 pages) |
Hitting the Road |
| Featuring: |
Don Quixote |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
Adventure In the Azores |
| Featuring: |
Spark Stevens |
| Credits: |
Script: Klaus Nordling | Pencils: Klaus Nordling | Inks: Klaus Nordling |
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