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Issue: #20
Published: November 1941, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing: Harry Shorten
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age US Paper Stock: Glossy Cover, Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing
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. 4.

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)
Featuring:	Steel Sterling; Black Jack
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Steel Sterling [John Sterling] Black Jack [Jack Jones] (introduction) Adolf Hitler (villain) Josef Goebbels (villain)

Comic Story (14 pages)	The Secret Jungle Airdrome
Featuring:	Steel Sterling
Synopsis:	Steel uncovers a secret Nazi air base in the jungle of Brazil.
Credits:	Script: Joe Blair [as Blair] (signed) \| Pencils: Irv Novick [as Novick] (signed) \| Inks: Irv Novick [as Novick] (signed)
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Steel Sterling [John Sterling] Clancy McGinty (Police) Looney Captain Schmidt (villain, Introduction) Nazis (villains)

Comic Story (11 pages)
Synopsis:	Lucky Lavitto has been going to a favorite fortune teller for years, always hearing that he is still boss of the town. However, on his most recent visit to the seer, he is told that he is to fear "the Black Jack", which will bring about his doom.
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Black Jack [Jack Jones] (introduction, Origin) Whitey (introduction, Death) Mr. Larson (introduction) Lucky Lavitto (villain, Introduction) Baxter (villain, Introduction) Lavitto's Gang (villains, Introduction For All)

Comic Story (6 pages)
Synopsis:	Wilbur is giving McGeery a dunking in the watering trough for calling him "Wilbur" instead of "Bill".
Genre:	Teen
Characters:	Wilbur Wilkin Betty Fox (introduction) J. A. McGeery (introduction)

Comic Story (7 pages)	Greenland Adventure
Featuring:	Captain Valor
Synopsis:	A fleet of German transports is landing a division on Greenland, unknown to Captain Valor and his Marines on their side of the island.
Credits:	Script: Joe Blair \| Pencils: Lin Streeter \| Inks: Lin Streeter
Characters:	Captain Valor (Marine) Slim (Marine) Slam (Marine) Sergeant Hogan (Marine) Nazis (villains)

Comic Story (6 pages)	The Rodeo Murder Plot
Featuring:	Nevada Jones
Synopsis:	Slade holds the mortgage on Wilson's ranch and is pretty anxious to take over at any cost.
Credits:	Pencils: Frank Volp \| Inks: Frank Volp
Genre:	Western-frontier
Characters:	Nevada Jones Little Joe (sidekick) Wilson (rancher) Mike Slade (villain, Introduction)

Comic Story (6 pages)
Featuring:	War Eagles
Synopsis:	A German u-boat has a secret hiding place in a castle by the Scottish coast.
Genre:	Aviation War
Characters:	Tim Shane Tom Shane Swen Nazis (villains)

Comic Story (7 pages)	The Maharajah of Madowa
Featuring:	Dicky in the Magic Forest
Credits:	Pencils: R. Louis Golden [as L. Golden] (signed) \| Inks: R. Louis Golden [as L. Golden] (signed)
Genre:	Fantasy
Characters:	Dicky Maharjah Of Madowa (villain, Introduction) Lunar (villain, Introduction)

Comic Story (5 pages)	War of the Circuses
Featuring:	Zambini
Credits:	Script: Harry Shorten \| Pencils: Bob Montana [as Montana] (signed) \| Inks: Bob Montana [as Montana] (signed)
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Zambini (magician) Mr. Gallop (introduction) Swafford (villain, Introduction) Socko (villain, Introduction) Their Gang (villains, Introduction)

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