Issue: #5
Published: August 1940, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing:
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age US Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1940, New Series, Vol. 35, No. 3.
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| Comic Story (8 pages) |
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| Synopsis: |
Caius, known in ancient Rome as the terror of Roman racketeers, by magical incantations, is put into a deep sleep for 2200 years, awakening in a museum. Upon exiting into the modern world, he sees a vicious gang attempting to kill a young boy, Ace Barlow, and saves him. He adopts the boy and trains him to be his sidekick and together they battle against the Ricarno Gang, responsible for killing Ace's parents. |
| Credits: |
Script: ? [as Jerry Abus] (credited) |
| Genre: |
Superhero |
| Characters: |
The Dart [Caius Martius Wheeler] (introduction, Origin) Ace Barlow (introduction, Adoptee Of Caius) General Sulla (leader Of The Roman Army, Flashback) Marius (villain, Flashback) Lucius (villain, Flashback) Ricarno (villain) Ricarno's Gang [Kid Frost Others Unnamed] (villains) |
| Text Story (2 pages) |
Blood and Thunder News |
| Synopsis: |
Steve Rider, a newspaper reporter, uncovers a cell of revolutionaries. |
| Credits: |
Letters: typeset |
| Genre: |
Drama |
| Characters: |
Steve Rider Professor Nixon |
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