Volume: #4, Issue: #1 (10)
Published: September 1941, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing: Ned Pines
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age US Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Notes: The indicia lists the volume and issue number as, "Vol. 4, No. 1".
The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1941, New Series, Vol. 36, No. 3.
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| Comic Story (15 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
The Fighting Yank |
| Synopsis: |
General Washington sends Bruce Carter out with vital dispatches and wants him to take them through enemy lines, but Bruce is killed in doing so. However, his spirit survives and roams to deal with any danger to the nation that arises. Eventually, his ghost appears to the third in his ancestral line 150 years later, and Bruce Carter III becomes the Fighting Yank, battler of America's enemies. |
| Credits: |
Script: Richard E. Hughes (signed) | Pencils: Jon L. Blummer [as Jon Blummer] (signed) | Inks: Jon L. Blummer [as Jon Blummer] (signed) | Letters: Jon L. Blummer ? |
| Genre: |
Superhero |
| Characters: |
The Fighting Yank [Bruce Carter III] (introduction, Origin) Bruce Carter I (introduction, Death, Reappearance As A Ghost) Mr. Carter (John's Father) Joan Farwell George Washington Frank Walton (villain, Introduction) Bernhard (villain) Joe (villain) Un-named Nazi Spies (villains, Introduction For All, Some Die) Tom Senator Walton |
| Text Story (1 page) |
The Half Pint |
| Synopsis: |
Wally Ford finds ways to help his baseball team even though he is riding the pine. |
| Credits: |
Script: Charles S. Strong | Letters: typeset |
| Genre: |
Sports |
| Characters: |
Wally Ford Sgt. Barry Phillips Joe Lynch |
| Text Story (1 page) |
Lucy's Knitting |
| Synopsis: |
Lucy is kidnapped for ransom, but she finds a way to tip off her location to her parents using her knitting. |
| Credits: |
Script: Kelvin McKay | Letters: typeset |
| Genre: |
Crime |
| Characters: |
Lucy Talbot Butch Corbin Fred Talbot |
| Promo (ad From The Publisher) (2 pages) |
Results of Contest No. 7 |
| Synopsis: |
Listing of the winners of Startling Comics Contest No. 7. |
| Credits: |
Letters: typeset |
| Promo (ad From The Publisher) (1 page) |
Watch For The Black Terror |
| Featuring: |
The Black Terror |
| Synopsis: |
Ad for The Black Terror in Exciting Comics. |
| Characters: |
Black Terror |
| Promo (ad From The Publisher) (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
American Crusader |
| Credits: |
Script: ? (ad copy) |
| Characters: |
American Crusader |
| Advertisement (1 page) |
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| Credits: |
Script: ? (ad copy) | Letters: ?; typeset |
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