Issue: #5
Published: August 1942, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing:
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U.S.; Later Standard Silver Age U.S. 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, 1942, New Series, Vol. 37, No. 3.
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| Comic Story (13 pages) |
Touch of the Leper |
| Synopsis: |
Chuck meets up once again with his old coach, Darcy, not realizing that he has a twin criminal brother, who later murders the coach and takes his place as a serviceman while secretly working for the Germans. When Crimebuster is shot by the Leper, but survives, he sets his sights on the Leper and to Darcy, intending to end the sabotage efforts both are involved in. |
| Genre: |
Adventure |
| Characters: |
Crimebuster [Chuck Chandler] Squeeks (a Monkey) O'Roarke (prison Guard) Barbara (girl Who Saves Crimebuster, Introduction) Carol (Barbara's Twin Sister, Introduction, Cameo) Coach Darcy (death) [Darcy] (villain, Coach Darcy's Twin Brother, Introduction) The Leper (German Saboteur, Introduction) |
| Text Story (2 pages) |
The Murder Mite |
| Synopsis: |
Snooty captures the Moroni gang single-handedly. |
| Credits: |
Letters: typeset |
| Genre: |
Adventure |
| Characters: |
Snooty Morgan Agnes Blackie |
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