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| Publication | August 1941 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Captain Battle [Jonathan Battle]; Hale Battle; Daredevil [Bart Hill] (inset) |
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| Synopsis | Illustrated advertisement for Captain Battle's Boys' Brigade, with coupon, for readers to mail in with ten cents to join the brigade. |
| Featuring | Captain Battle's Boys' Brigade |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Inside front cover |
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| Comic Story | Enter Captain Battle, Jr. (9 pages) |
| Synopsis | Captain Battle rescues Hale from the Priesthood of Moko, who are in the process of sacrificing him to their god, then heads with his young charge to deal with a Nazi sub attacking a small town. They rescue the daughter of the Dr. Goode, who has been taken prisoner by the Germans because of his secret wound-healing formula. After she makes a costume for the young boy, patterned after the Captain's, they head out to save the good doctor. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Captain Battle [Jonathan Battle]; Hale Battle; Dr. Goode; Dr. Goode's daughter; Priesthood of Moko (villains); Hans (villain); un-named Nazi sub commander (villain, death); the Nazis (villains) |
| Notes | The last 1/3 of the last page of the story is a plug for the latest Silver Streak and Captain Battle Comics issues, plus a photo of Captain Battle making a public appearance in New York City and promotion for readers to join Captain Battle's Boys' Brigade. |
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| Comic Story | The Adventure of the Laughing Hyena (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Streak and Meteor read with disgust about the lynchings of negro sharecroppers by the bloodthirsty Hyenas, and decide to do something about it. |
| Featuring | Silver Streak and Meteor, the Boy Speed-King |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Silver Streak [un-named taxi cab driver]; Meteor [Mickey O'Toole]; The Hyena ["Bull" Karson] (villain, introduction); the Hyena's gang [Joe; un-named others](villains) |
| Notes | Mercury is renamed Meteor in this story. The last panel gives the title for the next story "Case of the Totem Pole". |
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| Comic Story | The Bomb Saboteurs (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Cloud catches a couple of thugs trying to blow up his aircraft hanger, and discover that others in their group plan to blow up International Aeroplane and a U.S. battleship. So, he sets out in the Golden Bullet to stop those schemes. |
| Featuring | Cloud Curtis and His Golden Bullet |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Aviation | Characters: Cloud Curtis; "Crusher" McCoy; "Pop" Whistler; Slouchy (villain); two un-named gang members (villains, both die) |
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| Text Story | Quick Revenge, or, You Can't Do That To My Buddy (3 pages) |
| Synopsis | Captain Battle learns of a crooked roulette wheel at work, conning military men out of their hard earned money, so he and Hale take action by busting up the wheel and rounding up those responsible. |
| Credits | Pencils: Jack Binder (spot illustrations) | Inks: Jack Binder (spot illustrations) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Captain Battle [Jonathan Battle]; Hale Battle; un-named bouncer (villain); un-named beer-dive owner (villain) |
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| Comic Story | The Treasure Map (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Prince fishes a bottle out of the ocean, which contains an incomplete treasure map. Accidentally knocked overboard, he then dreams of seeing the treasure, landing on an island and meeting someone who tells him that he will get clues to the missing pieces of the map from weird beings on the island. |
| Featuring | The Pirate Prince |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Historical | Characters: The Pirate Prince |
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| Publisher advertisement | Boys and Girls, Win $100 in Cash Prizes (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Illustrated promotion from the publisher, with Silver Streak #12 cover shown, for a new contest, offering a $50 1st Prize, $10 2nd Prize, five $5 3rd Prizes, and twenty-five $1 4th Prizes. First, readers are asked to answer this question in 100 words or less: "Which feature do you like best in Silver Streak Comics and why?". Secondly, also in 100 words or less, readers are asked, "How I get all my friends to buy Silver Streak Comics". All letters were to be postmarked by August 9, 1941. |
| Featuring | Silver Streak contest |
| Credits | Letters:?; most typeset |
| Content | Characters: Captain Battle [Jonathan Battle] (inset); The Silver Streak [unknown taxi cab driver] (inset) |
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| Comic Story | The Mad Elephant (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Driven mad with pain, a wounded African elephant runs rampant through the Meru village, and inhabitants contact Lance, hoping he could stop the destructive beast. In the process of doing so, Lance saves the daughter of the Meru chief several times. |
| Featuring | Lance Hale |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Jungle | Characters: Lance Hale; un-named Chief of Meru tribe; Nada (Meru Chief's daughter) |
| Notes | Letterer credit added by Craig Delich 2013-2-21. The last panel tells of Lance Hale's next battle, this time against a man-eating crocodile. |
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| Synopsis | Dickie invents a photo-lightning machine that can generate a bolt of lightning that can hit any spot within a radius of miles. He takes it in to the offices of Kent Burk and Endicott to get it patented, not realizing an imposter is on hand to steal the invention and get it to Professor Blankhorne. |
| Featuring | Dickie Dean, the Boy Inventor |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Dickie Dean; Zip Todd; Professor Blankhorne (villain, introduction, death); C.B. Wolf (villain, death) |
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| Comic Story | Origin of Thun-Dohr (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | At a monastary in ancient Tibet, a young American Lama, now called Thun-Dohr, is summoned by the Dalai Lama and told the story of a white search party that met its fate looking for Lha-I-Ha......there was one survivor, a young baby, brought to the Dalai Lama. This young man is told he was then trained, in mind and body, in the arts of the Gom-pa, and that, now, he must undergo the tests of the Potala. He passes and is given a bracelet of gold that connects the spirits of himself and the Dalai Lama, who will fight evil together....in spirit. |
| Featuring | Thun-Dohr |
| Credits | Script:? [as Jeff Remon] (signed) | Pencils:? [as Jeff Remon] (signed) | Inks:? [as Jeff Remon] (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Thun-Dohr (introduction, origin); un-named parents of Thun-Dohr (both die); The Dalai Lama; Dr. Benson Bell (death); Sin Khaii (villain, introduction); Clavell (Professor Bell's assistant, made evil by the Black Madness) |
| Notes | Jeff Remon is a by-line for the strip only. |
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| Comic Story | The Riddle of the Missing Bullet! (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Presto runs into ex-movie star and acquaintance, Toni Billups, and finds out that her father has been having dreams in which he is going to be murdered. Later, he is informed at a boxing match that Toni's father has indeed been killed and Presto is off to discover the killer's identity. |
| Featuring | Presto Martin, Quick Change Detective! |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Detective-mystery | Characters: Presto Martin [also as Mr. Billups]; Sergeant Murphy; Toni Billups; Mr. Billups (death); Battleship LeBlanc (boxer); Jackson (villain); un-named cook (villain) |
| Notes | There is a blurb at the bottom of the last page giving the title of next issue's adventure, "The Case of the Baseball Murders". |
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| Comic Story | The Affair of the Scarlet Skull (9 pages) |
| Synopsis | Daredevil discovers that a Nazi bigwig is behind a plot to use the Scarlet Skull to kidnap the President of the United States, while a member of the gang disguises himself as the President in order to undermine U.S. war efforts. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Daredevil [Bart Hill] [also as The Scarlet Skull]; Tonia Saunders (Bart's fiancee); The Scarlet Skull (villain, introduction); Eric Sinhart (villain) |
| Notes | Policeman at the Police Station is shown reading a copy of Silver Streak Comics. The last panel reveals the next story title: "Enter the Parson". |
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| Synopsis | Illustrated promotional advertisement for Daredevil Comics #2, picturing the cover, and some of the interior features. |
| Content | Characters: Daredevil [Bart Hill]; The Claw; Nightro [Hugh Goddard]; London [Marc Holmes]; Whirlwind [Terry Turner]; Bronze Terror [Jeff Dixon]; The Pioneer, Champion of America |
| Notes | Inside back cover |
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| Synopsis | Illustrated promotional advertisement for the first issue of Captain Battle Comics, including the titles of the three Captain Battle stories with synopses. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Characters: Captain Battle [Jonathan Battle] |
| Notes | Back cover |
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