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(Corrected) Scanned from a coverless; fc+bc from the reliable old HAG, and ifc+ibc from darkmark's old fiche.
Early appearances of Black Cat; Spirit of '76; Satan; Red Blazer; Zebra; and the Phantom Sphinx!

Issue: #4
Published: January 1942, Price: 0.10 USD; 0.15 CAD, Pages: 100, Editing:
Color: Color Dimensions: Digest Size Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Notes: POCKET COMICS, Volume 1, Number 4, JANUARY 1942. Published Bi-monthly by Alfred Harvey 67 West 44th Street, New York, N. Y. Entered as second class matter April 18, 1941, at the Post Office in New York, under Act of March 3, 1879. Price 10 cents per copy. In Canada 15 cents per copy. Subscription for six issues, 60 cents in U. S. A. (Other countries 85 cents). No actual person is named or delineated in this fiction magazine. Printed in U. S. A.
 Comic Contents:
Cover (1 page)
Genre: Superhero
Characters: Black Cat [Linda Turner] Spirit Of '76 [Gary Blakely]

Comic Story (12 pages) Decoy Destruction
Synopsis: A U-boat torpedoes a boat Garboil is using to film his latest epic. Fortunately his cast survives, including Linda Turner. When Black Cat and Rick investigate, they realize the destroyed boat was only misdirection for the U-Boat's real target. They stop the Nazi spy ring from repeating the decoy destruction.
Genre: Superhero
Characters: Black Cat [Linda Turner] Rick Horne Garboil (villain)

Comic Story (12 pages) Don Swan, Traitor
Genre: Superhero
Characters: Spirit Of '76 [Gary Blakely]

Comic Story (2 pages) Hitchin' a Ride
Genre: Humor Military

Comic Story (10 pages) Satan Meets His Equal
Genre: Horror-suspense
Characters: Satan Natas (introduction, Villain, Death?)

Comic Story (1 page)
Featuring: Simpy
Genre: Humor

Comic Story (8 pages) The Coming of Von Voff
Genre: Aviation

Text Story (2 pages) Captain Freedom and the Stratobomber Riddle
Featuring: Captain Freedom
Credits: Letters: typeset
Genre: Aviation

Comic Story (12 pages) Dr. Skull and the Thieving Orphans
Genre: Superhero
Characters: Red Blazer Dr. Skull (villain)

Text Story (2 pages) U.S.A.
Featuring: Black Cat [Harvey]; Spirit of '76
Synopsis: Black Cat and the Spirit of '76 team up to stop a Nazi E-boat.
Credits: Letters: typeset
Genre: Superhero
Characters: Black Cat [Linda Turner] Spirit Of '76 [Cadet Lieutenant Gary Blakely]

Comic Story (10 pages) Crossing the Black Cat's Path
Synopsis: Agent 99 brings a list of every Gestapo agent in the United States to President Roosevelt. Agent 99 then helps the FBI track down the names on the list, starting in Hollywood with the film director Garboil and his superior, Karl Vern. There he meets the Black Cat and Rick Horne. Together, all three stop Garboil’s gang. Rick becomes jealous when Black Cat gives Agent 99 a kiss.
Genre: Spy Superhero
Characters: Alan Douglas [Agent 99] (British Screen Star) Linda Turner [The Black Cat] Rick Horne Garboil (villain) Karl Vern (introduction, Villain)

Advertisement (1 page)
Genre: Humor

Activity (2 pages)
Featuring: Can You Solve These Puzzlers

Comic Story (10 pages) The Evil of Kali
Genre: Superhero
Characters: Amron (son Of Pharaohs) [The Phantom Sphinx] Kali (Villain, Introduction)

Text Article (2 pages)
Featuring: Stars in the Spotlight!

Comic Story (10 pages) Battles the Human Frog!
Credits: Script: ? (Ellery King)
Genre: Superhero
Characters: John Doyle (counselor At Law) [The Zebra] J. C. Terry (his Friend, A Secret Service Agent, Death) The "Frog" (deported Spy, Villain, Death) Reginald Stillson (head Of The American Secret Service)

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