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| Presto Martin looks like it was inked by George Roussos who inked a lot of Dick Wood stories c.1941. |
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| Publication | July 1941 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Daredevil [Bart Hill]; Captain Battle [Jonathan Hale] (inset); Silver Streak [unknown taxi cab driver] (inset) |
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| Publisher advertisement | Join Captain Battle's Boys' Brigade! (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Illustrated promotional advertisement for Captain Battle's Boys' Brigade, the Defenders of American Democracy! Readers are to mail in the attached Boy's Brigade coupon with 10 cents, and they will receive the membership card and official badge in the mail. |
| Featuring | Captain Battle's Boys' Brigade |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Characters: Captain Battle [Jonathan Battle] |
| Notes | Inside front cover. |
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| Comic Story | Bargains in Murder (9 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Murder Syndicate gets the job of bumping off the district attorney and succeeds. However, Bart spots the Chopper and eventually rounds him up as well as the chief, Porky Porter, as Daredevil. But a mysterious figure in black and his fellow felons show up at the courtroom, tosses in tear gas, and rescues the two criminals, capturing Daredevil in the process. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Daredevil [Bart Hill]; Tonia Saunders (Bart's fiancee); District Attorney Wayne (death); Judge Harkins (villain); The Murder Syndicate [Porky Porter (chief); Chopper Lane (the executioner); Mysteriouis Figure in Black] (villains, introduction for all); Slug (villain); Eric Sinhart? (villain) |
| Notes | The last panel of the story tells of Daredevil's next foe, the Spymaster (shown in next to last panel of this story?), and gives the titles of next issue's story: "The Affair of the Scarlet Skull." |
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| Comic Story | The Treasure Hunters (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Dickie and Zip are on summer vacation from school and decide to visit Zip's fisherman Uncle Tod, who can't understand why the fish have been dying......fish he needs to catch for a living. Dickie turns the Sky-Sub into a walking submarine, and he and Zip go underwater to investigate. They find the reason why the fish are dying and spot the mast of an old treasure ship......a ship that one of Uncle Tod's rivals is interested in. |
| Featuring | Dickie Dean The Boy Inventor |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Dickie Dean; Zip Todd; Tod (Zip's uncle); Cranky Andy (villain, death); Andy's gang (villains) |
| Notes | Writer credit added by Craig Delich 2013-2-4. The last 1/3 of page 8 is devoted to Dickie Dean's Invention Corner, and features the invention of Jerry Young of Urbana, Illinois: a home-made picture projector. |
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| Comic Story | The Race against Death -- (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Streak and Mercury head to China to help save the imperiled village of San Cho from the enemy invaders. |
| Featuring | Silver Streak and Mercury, the Boy Speed King |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Silver Streak [an unknown taxi cab driver]; Mercury; The Invaders (villains, many die) |
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| Synopsis | Various illustrated activities for the readers to solve include a animal cross-word puzzle, the dwarf's problem, and two brain teasers. The solution to all of these is provided. |
| Featuring | Can You Solve These? |
| Credits | Script: David B. Icove | Pencils: David B. Icove | Inks: David B. Icove |
| Content | Characters: Joe; Leo; Eddy |
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| Synopsis | Readers are asked to take a Quick Quiz of six questions, plus find the answers to nine illustrated posers, such as: what makes a baseball curve, what state has more than 10,000 lakes, and so on. Answers are provided. |
| Featuring | Can You Answer These? |
| Credits | Script: David B. Icove | Pencils: David B. Icove | Inks: David B. Icove |
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| Comic Story | The Forbidden Valley of Ka-Zor (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Lance decides to explore the forbidden Valley of Ka-Zor, surrounded on all sides by steep cliffs, and never explored by man. There he meets a cave-man and his family, saving them from various prehistoric creatures. |
| Featuring | Lance Hale |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Jungle | Characters: Lance Hale; un-named cave-man and his family |
| Notes | Letterer credit added by Craig Delich 2013-2-4. |
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| Synopsis | In a baseball game, with the manager threatening to trade him to another team, Chubby hits a long ball and rounds all the bases, sliding into home for an apparent home run. That is, until the ump tells him that he had yelled foul ball on the play! |
| Featuring | Chubby Chump |
| Credits | Script: David B. Icove [as D. B. Icove] (signed) | Pencils: David B. Icove [as D. B. Icove] (signed) | Inks: David B. Icove [as D. B. Icove] (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Sports | Characters: Chubby Chump; un-named umpire |
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| Synopsis | Illustrated publisher promotional advertisement for Daredevil Comics #2, with cover reproduced, on sale June 20, 1941, and featuring twelve smash features (some illustrated w/text blurbs). |
| Credits | Pencils: various | Inks: various | Letters:?; most typeset |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Daredevil [Bart Hill]; The Claw; Nightro [Hugh Goddard]; London [Marc Holmes]; The Whirlwind [Terry Turner]; The Pioneer; The Bronze Terror [Jeff Dixon] |
| Notes | The centerfold of this issue. |
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| Comic Story | Introducing Hale Battle (9 pages) |
| Synopsis | Captain Battle works feverishly in his lab, trying to turn the bewitched birdmen of the Black Dragon back into human beings. He succeeds with one of them, Major Ling Fu, who agrees to help the Captain against his foes, and together, they fly to the Dragon's Castle, and succeed in freeing the other birdmen from their bewitching. He discovers that one of the Deaglos is a young boy named Nathan Hale, who helps Battle fight the Thibetan Hoods, who capture young Hale and attempt to sacrifice him to their god Moko. |
| Credits | Pencils: Jack Binder (signed) | Inks: Jack Binder (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Captain Battle [Jonathan Hale]; Hale Battle [formerly Nathan Hale; later Captain Battle Jr.] (introduction); The Black Dragon (villain); Deaglo Birdmen [Major Ling Fu] (villains, all reform); the Thibetan Hoods (villains) |
| Notes | Continued in the next issue. |
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| Text Story | Boomerang! or The Bandit's Thwarted Revenge: Part 5 (3 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Scout and Lucifer answer to the screams of a young school teacher from Roaring Falls, kidnapped and being abused by the renegade bandito from Mexico, Rodrigo, but is promptly captured by the outlaw's men. They head for the bandit's camp on the American side of the border before journeying on to Mexico the next day and get roaring drunk. During the night, Rose is freed by a woman whose son was killed by Rodrigo, who then frees the Scout, who rounds up the bandit and his cut-throats. |
| Featuring | The Silver Scout and His Horse Lucifer |
| Credits | Pencils: Jack Binder (Illustrations) | Inks: Jack Binder (Illustrations) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: The Silver Scout [originally known as The Silver Ranger]; Lucifer (the Scout's horse); Rose (school teacher); Manuel's wife; un-named Sheriff; Rodrigo (villain, renegade bandit) |
| Notes | Oddity: The Scout's horse is white, yet the text calls him coal-black. |
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| Comic Story | The Tolarian Kidnappers (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Cloud's friend, Lem, has invented a new type of bomb and Cloud agrees to test it, and if it is worthy, he'll talk to the Army about it. Before he can take off in the Golden Bullet, a news reporter informs Cloud that the U.S. Defense Co-ordinator has been kidnapped by the Tolarians, and Cloud is the only one to get him back safely without anyone being the wiser. |
| Featuring | Cloud Curtis and His Golden Bullet |
| Credits | Pencils: Jack Binder (signed) | Inks: Jack Binder (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Aviation | Characters: Cloud Curtis; Lem Anderson; "Crusher" McCoy; "Pop" Whistler; Mike (news reporter); Co-ordinator of Defense [Kutsden]; Tolarians (villains) |
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| Comic Story | Captain Blooze's Whaler Scam (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Prince runs across Captain Blooz again, who tries to convince him that he no longer a slave-runner, but a whaler. But a fire aboard Blooz's ship reveals hidden slaves, and Blooz is captured and handed over to the slaves, who are returned to Africa by the Prince. As for Blooz, he becomes a slave to the ex-slaves. |
| Featuring | The Pirate Prince |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; War | Characters: The Pirate Prince; Captain Blooz (villain, slave-runner) |
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| Comic Story | The Capture of Simon Girty (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | Dan is saved from torture by the Indians by Sam Girty, leader of the dreaded "White Savages", but discovers that Jerry has followed Dan and has been nabbed by Sam. He is able to save the boy and turn the tables on Girty's "White Savages" and they are captured.....but Sam somehow escapes. |
| Featuring | Dan Dearborn |
| Content | Genre: Historical | Characters: Dan Dearborn; Jerry; Scar-Face Dykes (villain, mentioned only); Simon Girty (villain); the Indians (villains) |
| Notes | Continued from last issue. Writer/artist credits for Bernard Baily revised to Walter Galli, writer, and Bernard Klein, artist, by Craig Delich 2013-2-4. |
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| Comic Story | The Unbelievable Case of the Lady Killer!! (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Presto must face and defeat a disguised, cloaked adversary who has taken to killing, beating and brutally murdering beautiful young girls. |
| Featuring | Presto Martin Master of Quick Disguise |
| Credits | Script: Bob Wood (signed) | Pencils: Bob Wood (signed) | Inks: Bob Wood (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Presto Bill Martin [also as the Lady Killer]; Miss Kent (Martin's secretary); Betty (actress); Jack Jenkins (sports cartoonist, Betty's boy friend); un-named Police Commissioner; The Lady Killer (villain, introduction) |
| Notes | The last panel reveals the name of next issue's story: "Riddle of the Missing Bullet". |
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| Publisher advertisement | Here's Captain Battle! (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Illustrated promotional advertisement, assuring readers that the good Captain himself will visit their neighborhood soon. But, in the meantime, they are to go to their local newsstand and pick up the newest issue of Captain Battle Comics, on sale June 27, 1941. Also, readers are asked whether or not they have joined Captain Battle's Boys' Brigade |
| Credits | Pencils: Jack Binder | Inks: Jack Binder |
| Content | Characters: Captain Battle [Jonathan Battle] |
| Notes | Found on the inside back cover. |
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| Synopsis | Illustrated promotional advertisement asking readers to pick up the newest issue of Daredevil Comics (#2), on sale June 20, 1941. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Daredevil [Bart Hill] |
| Notes | Found on the back cover. |
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