Issue: #15
Published: October 1940, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing: Ed Cronin
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U.S. Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-Stitched Publishing Format: Was On-Going 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. 4.
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| Comic Story (9 pages) |
Fort Johnson Blown Up |
| Featuring: |
Espionage Starring Black X |
| Synopsis: |
Black X stops saboteurs from blowing up the Golder Dam. |
| Credits: |
Script: Will Eisner [as Will Erwin] (signed) | Pencils: Will Eisner [as Will Erwin, with some help from the shop] (signed) | Inks: Will Eisner [as Will Erwin, with some help from the shop] (signed) |
| Genre: |
Spy |
| Characters: |
Espionage [Black X] Batu Frits Moronoff (villain) |
| Comic Story (4 pages) |
Chic Covers the Opera |
| Featuring: |
Chic Carter |
| Synopsis: |
Carter searches for a phantom killer in an opera house. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Vernon Henkel | Inks: Vernon Henkel |
| Genre: |
Detective-mystery |
| Characters: |
Chic Carter Sgt. Monahan The Phantom |
| Comic Story (2 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
Wun Cloo |
| Credits: |
Script: Gill Fox (signed) | Pencils: Gill Fox (signed) | Inks: Gill Fox |
| Genre: |
Humor Detective-mystery |
| Comic Story (2 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
Clip Chance at Cliffside |
| Synopsis: |
Clip plays baseball for a change, but still runs afoul of gamblers, gets clonked on the head, and has to parachute into the middle of the fifth inning in order to save the team. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: George Brenner ? | Inks: George Brenner ? |
| Genre: |
Sports |
| Characters: |
Clip Chance Spud Doyle Gill Fox |
| Cartoon (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
Small Stuff |
| Credits: |
Script: John Devlin | Pencils: John Devlin | Inks: John Devlin |
| Genre: |
Humor |
| Comic Story (6 pages) |
Cadava the Crumbler |
| Featuring: |
The Ray |
| Synopsis: |
Cadava, a once handsome man turned bitter from society's scorn, unleashes a destructive ray on the city, but dies in struggling with the Ray. To help reconstruct the city, the Ray creates a giant form of himself to lift large building materials into place. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Lou Fine [as E. Lectron] (signed) | Inks: Lou Fine [as E. Lectron] (signed) |
| Genre: |
Superhero |
| Characters: |
The Ray [Happy Terrill] Diane Soo Choo Cadava The Crumbler (villain, Death) |
| Comic Story (2 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
Archie O'Toole |
| Credits: |
Script: George Tuska [as Bud Thomas] | Pencils: George Tuska [as Bud Thomas] | Inks: George Tuska [as Bud Thomas] |
| Genre: |
Humor Children |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
Bobby Feller |
| Featuring: |
Sportraits |
| Credits: |
Script: Gill Fox | Pencils: Gill Fox (signed) | Inks: Gill Fox |
| Genre: |
Sports |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
Vulcan Metz |
| Featuring: |
Wings Wendall |
| Synopsis: |
Wings' place is taken by a German spy who hopes to steal an American plane being delivered to the allies. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Vernon Henkel (signed) | Inks: Vernon Henkel |
| Genre: |
Aviation |
| Characters: |
Wings Wendall Vulcan Metz Diane |
| Text Story (2 pages) |
The Coward |
| Featuring: |
Jimmy Christian |
| Credits: |
Script: Robert M. Hyatt | Letters: typeset |
| Genre: |
Adventure |
| Comic Story (4 pages) |
Shara |
| Featuring: |
Abdul the Arab |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Bob Powell [as Powell Roberts] | Inks: Bob Powell [as Powell Roberts] |
| Genre: |
Adventure |
| Characters: |
Abdul Hassan Princess Shara Achmed |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
The Ghost Gang |
| Featuring: |
Bozo the Robot |
| Credits: |
Pencils: George Brenner ? [as Wayne Reid] | Inks: George Brenner ? [as Wayne Reid] |
| Genre: |
Science Fiction |
| Characters: |
Bozo Hugh Hazzard Ghost Gang |
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