Issue: #6
Published: October 1939, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing:
Color: Color Cover; Color Interior Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U. S. Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-Stitched Publishing Format: Was On-Going Series
Notes: Data from Jerry Bails index cards and Howard Keltner's Golden Age index.
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 431861.
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| Promo (ad From The Publisher) (1 page) |
The Masked Marvel |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Ben Thompson; ? | Inks: Ben Thompson; ? |
| Comic Story (6 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
The Shark |
| Synopsis: |
The super-science underwater hero the Shark stops criminals from starting a war in Furvainia. |
| Credits: |
Script: Lew Glanzman [as Lew Glanz] (signed) | Pencils: Lew Glanzman [as Lew Glanz] (signed) | Inks: Lew Glanzman [as Lew Glanz] (signed) |
| Genre: |
Superhero |
| Characters: |
The Shark |
| Comic Story (3 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
Forbidden Island |
| Synopsis: |
Lew and Bobbie are briefly stranded on an island and fight a brutish wild man. |
| Credits: |
Script: Clyde Yeadon [as Clyde Don] (signed) | Pencils: Clyde Yeadon [as Clyde Don] (signed) | Inks: Clyde Yeadon [as Clyde Don] (signed) |
| Genre: |
Adventure |
| Characters: |
Lew Bobbie |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
Iron Skull |
| Synopsis: |
The Iron Skull battles Decor to stop him from using his death ray. |
| Credits: |
Script: Carl Burgos (signed) | Pencils: Carl Burgos (signed) | Inks: Carl Burgos (signed) |
| Genre: |
Superhero |
| Characters: |
Iron Skull Igor Decor (villain, Dies) |
| Text Story (2 pages) |
Sealed Orders |
| Synopsis: |
The rebel leader Ling-sa tries to commandeer a plane. |
| Credits: |
Script: Rex Lawrence | Pencils: ? (illustration) | Inks: ? (illustration) | Letters: typeset |
| Genre: |
Adventure |
| Characters: |
General Nero Ling-sa Lt. Quong |
| Comic Story (6 pages) |
Congo War Drums: Part 2 |
| Synopsis: |
Sandy frees the white people who had been imprisoned by the Kilanga headhunters and learns the white trader Lamont was responsible for arming the Kilanga uprising. |
| Credits: |
Script: Paul Gustavson | Pencils: Paul Gustavson | Inks: Paul Gustavson | Letters: Paul Gustavson |
| Genre: |
Jungle |
| Characters: |
Sandy Thorne Labu The Kilanga Mike O'Conner |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
Minimidget - the Super-Midget |
| Synopsis: |
Minimidget and Ritty are placed in the care of an old lady who they have to protect from a burglar. As a reward they are given a toy plane. Minimidget fights with a bird. |
| Credits: |
Script: John F. Kolb (signed) | Pencils: John F. Kolb (signed) | Inks: John F. Kolb (signed) |
| Genre: |
Superhero |
| Characters: |
Minimidget Ritty Mrs. Kerry |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
Land Beneath the Sea |
| Featuring: |
Chuck Hardy |
| Synopsis: |
Chuck and Jerry meet the human rulers of Aquatania and enter their advanced super-city. |
| Credits: |
Script: Frank Thomas (signed) | Pencils: Frank Thomas (signed) | Inks: Frank Thomas (signed) |
| Genre: |
Adventure Science Fiction |
| Characters: |
Chuck Hardy Jerry Peterson |
| Comic Story (8 pages) |
The Ivy Menace |
| Synopsis: |
Hampton's cat spills his new plant growth formula, causing vines of ivy to continue growing until they reduce New Jersey and New York to little more than rubble. The US government bombs the countryside until the ivy is completely destroyed. |
| Credits: |
Script: Tarpe Mills ? | Pencils: Tarpe Mills (signed) | Inks: Tarpe Mills (signed) |
| Genre: |
Science Fiction |
| Characters: |
Philip Hampton (dies) |
| Advertisement (1 page) |
New 1940 catalog! |
| Credits: |
Letters: typeset |
| Promo (ad From The Publisher) (1 page) |
Hey Kids |
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