Issue: #22
Published: March 1942, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing: Harry Shorten
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U. S. Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
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| Comic Story (11 pages) |
The Black Hand's Pirate Ship |
| Featuring: |
Captain Flag |
| Synopsis: |
Captain Flag finally succeeds in capturing the Black Hand and thwarts his piracy scheme, and the evil villain is hung from the yardarm. |
| Credits: |
Script: Joe Blair | Pencils: Lin Streeter | Inks: Lin Streeter |
| Genre: |
Superhero |
| Characters: |
Captain Flag [Tom Townsend] The Black Hand (villain, Death) |
| Comic Story (6 pages) |
The Fingerless Corpse |
| Featuring: |
Fox |
| Synopsis: |
A rash of fingerless corpses found in the East River attracts the attention of reporter Ruth Ransom, so she tracks the murders to a hidden opium den in a Chinese museum and is captured by the man only known as the Mandarin. Luckily for her, she was followed by the Fox who rescues her from the death trap and sends the Mandarin to the doom he granted so many others: a pit with a ladder whose rungs conceal blades that slice the fingers when grabbed. |
| Credits: |
Script: Joe Blair | Pencils: Warren King | Inks: Bob Montana ? |
| Genre: |
Superhero |
| Characters: |
The Fox [Paul Patton] Ruth Ransom (reporter) The Mandarin (villain, Introduction, Death) |
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