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| IN reference to the credit notation to "RED REED" below, I suspect that "Fitz" was a house-name at Gleason (like, "whatever fits...") but unless I'm reading the credits analysis wrong, I DON'T think Everett wrote these, if only because he had enough weight even in 1942 to have his flourishing signature on the splashes of both RED REED chapters he'd illustrated, and could easily have had the story credited to "By Bill Everett" if that were appropriate. Wolverton's proud posting of his own name on his intro of Scoop Scuttle bears this out, as do several other credits on the book.Gleason was magnanimous enough to credit his artists to a far greater extent than many other publishers at the time (even if Chas. Biro seemed to be signing everything whether he worked on it or not) and if Gleason were trying to secure ownership of a strip they thought had legs, (syndication still being the gold ring in those halcyon days) then it would be logical that a house name such as Fitz would get the byline. Further evidence by the sparse biographical info available about this vague presence in the Gleason shop.
Extensive searching for further bio on "Fitz" going back to Gleason's days at Eastern Color Printing, have turned up nothing, which further suggests the likelihood of it being a House Name. |
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| Publication | May 1942 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Monthly |
| Notes | Klein credits suggested by the Who's Who.
The head views of the other characters to left of Saint page are NOT by Klein and artist listing above has a ? to reflect this. |
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| Featuring | The Saint |
| Credits | Script: Leslie Charteris (on Saint strip) (signed) | Pencils:?; Bernard Klein? (Saint page); Edd Ashe? | Inks:?; Bernard Klein? (Saint page); Edd Ashe? |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: The Saint [Simon Templar]; un-named Professor; Kapitan Gunther; Adolf Hitler; the Nazis; Captain Battle [Jonathan Battle] (inset); Red Reed (inset); "Scoop" Scuttle (inset); Dickie Dean (inset) |
| Notes | Klein credits suggested by the Who's Who.
The head views of the other characters to left of Saint page are NOT by Klein and artist listing above has a ? to reflect this. |
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| Featuring | The Saint |
| Credits | Script: Leslie Charteris (signed) | Pencils: Bernard Klein?; Edd Ashe? | Inks: Bernard Klein?; Edd Ashe? |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: The Saint [Simon Templar]; un-named professor; Winston Churchill; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Adolf Hitler (villain); Kapitan Gunther (villain); the Nazis (villains) |
| Notes | Klein credit suggested by the Who's Who.
The first six panels of the story are on the front cover. |
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| Comic Story | Secret Radio Messages (6 pages) |
| Featuring | Ned of the Navy |
| Credits | Pencils: Irv Watanabe [as Hitoshi Watanabe] (signed) | Inks: Irv Watanabe [as Hitoshi Watanabe] (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Military; War | Characters: Ned Hale |
| Notes | Signed with a stylized signature. Previous indexer attributed the art to Art Gates. |
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| Comic Story | The Spells of Black Magic (8 pages) |
| Featuring | Captain Battle |
| Credits | Pencils: Jack Binder | Inks: Jack Binder |
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| Comic Story | Farmers Are Important Men (5 pages) |
| Featuring | Alonzo Appleseed |
| Credits | Script: Jack Warren? | Pencils: Jack Warren [as Alonzo] (signed) | Inks: Jack Warren |
| Notes | Signed "Alonzo" on last panel. Jack Alonzo Vincent Warren used various permutations of his name on his comic book work. |
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| Cartoon | The City Slicker Who Slept Late (2 pages) |
| Credits | Script: Ron Santi (signed) | Pencils: Ron Santi (signed) | Inks: Ron Santi (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Centerfold cartoon.
Ronald Santi credited by Jerry Bails as writer of his fillers for Lev Gleason. |
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| Comic Story | The Black Mask (6 pages) |
| Featuring | Pirate Prince |
| Credits | Pencils: Dick Briefer | Inks: Dick Briefer |
| Content | Characters: The Black Mask (Intro) |
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| Featuring | Fun |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Comic Story | Opera Star or Pickpocket Pincher? (4 pages) |
| Featuring | Scoop Scuttle |
| Credits | Script: Basil Wolverton | Pencils: Basil Wolverton | Inks: Basil Wolverton |
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| Text Story | Crimebuster Meets the Mysterious Dr. Kusu (2 pages) |
| Featuring | Crimebuster |
| Credits | Script: Dick Wood | Letters: Typeset |
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| Featuring | Dickie Dean, the Boy Inventor |
| Credits | Script: Bob Wood? |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Humor | Characters: Dickie Dean; Zip Todd; Senator Birro |
| Notes | Montana signs in the final panel. |
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| Synopsis | Red, Jose and Molly head for the capital city of Elcador to take on Zano and his Nazi-led men. But they are soon captured and imprisoned in a house once owned by a friend of theirs. They find a secret panel which enables them to escape and head for the mountain fortress of the Elcador leader, General Cados. |
| Featuring | Red Reed in the Americas |
| Credits | Script: Bob Davis? (credited) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Red Reed; Jose Navarro; Mollie Day; Jose's father (Elcador's Chief of Police); Garcia; Lumpenhunde (death); General Pancho Zano (villain, bandit); Manuel (villain); Herr Otto von Gruber (villain); Herr Kurtz (villain); the Nazis (villains) |
| Notes | Continued from previous issue.
The story is by-lined "Bob Davis and Fitz" referred to in the previous issue as the feature's creators.
Continued next issue. |
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| Featuring | The Saint |
| Credits | Pencils: Edd Ashe (signed) | Inks: Edd Ashe (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: The Saint [Simon Templar] |
| Notes | On back cover. |
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