Issue: #18
Published: March 1940, 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 Ongoing Series
Notes: On sale date from the publication date found at the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 35, January-December 1940, Numbers 1-4. Second class permit. Copyright number 445033.
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| Comic Story (9 pages) |
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| Synopsis: |
There is a shortage of horses for the armed forces. Speed and Reel fly to wild horse country, where Speed fights and defeats the leader of a herd of wild horses. In an attempt to capture a group of enemy agents, Reel goes into town and brags loudly about the valley he has found teeming with a thousand wild steeds. |
| Genre: |
Superhero |
| Characters: |
Speed Centaur [Jerry R. McCoy] Reel McCoy |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
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| Synopsis: |
A shipment of gold, worth $50,000, is loaded onto a ship, but three days out it is stolen by men using a submarine. Selkirk and Ramsey attempt to capture the thieves by planting false stories of upcoming gold shipments. |
| Genre: |
Adventure |
| Characters: |
George Selkirk Major Ramsey |
| Comic Story (6 pages) |
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| Synopsis: |
Bill and Davy are aboard the 'Lady May' owned by Jane Trew. Bill begins to fall for the young girl, but is too insecure to tell her. Eventually he plucks up enough courage to ask for her hand in marriage, but she turns him down. On the wharf they encounter Jamaica Jones, who drugs their drink and shanghais them. |
| Genre: |
Adventure |
| Characters: |
Bill Bilson Davy Jane Trew Dreary Jamaica Jones |
| Comic Story (6 pages) |
Fantasy Isle: Chapter 2 |
| Synopsis: |
Tippy Taylor is on Fantasy Isle, where he is ten times larger than its inhabitants. One faction tries to enlist his aid in an effort to conquer another faction, but Tippy's sense of fair play allows him to bring about an armistice. |
| Genre: |
Adventure Fantasy |
| Characters: |
Tippy Taylor Katrina Alphonzo |
| Comic Story (5 pages) |
The Fiend of Halwith Hall |
| Synopsis: |
A man known as The Fiend escapes from a lunatic asylum and begins a systematic attack on doctors. Detective John Degen is called onto the case and tracks the villain down, only to be captured and left to die by an explosive device. |
| Genre: |
Drama |
| Characters: |
John Degen Doctor Sloane The Fiend (villain) |
| Comic Story (5 pages) |
The Ghost of Kirkwood |
| Synopsis: |
Adventurer Larry Kane finds himself in England, bored by the monotony of life. He meets Mrs. Randolph and her daughter on the street and they tell him of weird doings at Kirkwood Castle. He goes to investigate, and finds that the strange occurrences are caused by a gang of robbers who are using the place as a hideout. |
| Genre: |
Adventure |
| Characters: |
Larry Kane Mrs. Harriman Randolph Betty Randolph |
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