| Comments |
| |
| Warren King's Firefly art is outstanding in this series, though Black Hood has the best villains and stories. |
|
| | |
| Additional Information |
| |
| Publication | October 1941 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
| Notes | Camy's signature is cropped from the GCD scan. It appears on the lower right, just below the red cape in the can at the Digital Comics Museum (https://digitalcomicmuseum.com/preview/index.php?did=229&page=1). |
| |
| Content | Characters: Black Hood [Kip Burland]; Wizard [Blane Whitney]; Roy |
| Notes | Camy's signature is cropped from the GCD scan. It appears on the lower right, just below the red cape in the can at the Digital Comics Museum (https://digitalcomicmuseum.com/preview/index.php?did=229&page=1). |
| |
| Featuring | Jackpot Comics; Shield-Wizard Comics |
| Content | Characters: Dusty; Roy |
| Notes | Inside front cover. |
| |
| Comic Story | The Mark of the Monster (14 pages) |
| Content | Characters: The Monster [Mark Horley] (villain, introduction, death); Black Hood [Kip Burland]; Harvey Willard; Barbara Sutton; Barnes; McGinty |
| Notes | Barbara reveals to Kip that she knows he's the Black Hood. |
| |
| Comic Story | Murder and Politics (10 pages) |
| Content | Characters: James Talcott (introduction); Paul Travers (introduction); Townley (villain, introduction); Bates (villain, introdution); Hawley (villain, introduction); Roy; Wizard [Blane Whitney]; Jane Barlow |
| |
| Comic Story | The Russian Border Raid Incident (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | Their car stopping in the mountains of Russia, Fran and Hal must find a place to spend the night, and stumble into a German-Japanese spy center. |
| Content | Genre: Spy | Characters: Fran Frazer (news-photographer); Hal Davis (reporter); Nazis (villain); Strunsky |
| Notes | Originally credited to Irv Novick, but the faces with narrow pointed ears are not his work, nor anything else. |
| |
| Comic Story | The Payroll Truck Robbery (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | A U.S. Army payroll truck is hijacked. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Keith Kornell; Robbers; Whitey (horse) |
| |
| Comic Story | The Whirling Dervish (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | A Hindu fakir is attempting to send the Firefly to his death by using remote control hypnosis. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Firefly [Harley Hudson]; Whirling Dervish (villain, introduction); Dr. Forbes (introduction, death); Lucille Forbes (introduction) |
| |
| Synopsis | The crook, Romelli, wants to buy Mills' contract with the Kid. |
| Content | Genre: Sports | Characters: St. Louis Kid; Lou Romelli (villain, introduction); Benson (villain, introduction); Windy Mills |
| |
| Featuring | Black Jack; Zip Comics |
| Content | Characters: Black Jack [Jack Jones] |
| Notes | House ad for Black Jack and for Zip Comics. |
| |
| Comic Story | The Sinking of the Shroud (6 pages) |
| Content | Genre: War | Characters: Nazis (villain); Wings Johnson; Henry |
| |
| Comic Story | The Doctor's Double (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Criminals has learned of a new type of gas which Dr. Clark was working on and they wanted to get control of it. |
| Content | Characters: Bob Phantom [Walt Whitney]; Anne Clark (introduction); Dr. Clark (introduction); A gang of crooks (villain, introduction) |
| Notes | Originally credited to Bernard Klein, but the faces, and hands with very long fingers, and narrow, pointed ears are not his work. The same unknown artist as on the Fran Frazer story in this issue. |
| |
| Featuring | Captain Flag; Blue Ribbon Comics |
| Credits | Pencils: Art Seymour [as Seymour] (signed) | Inks: Art Seymour? |
| Content | Characters: Captain Flag; Yank (eagle) |
| Notes | House ad for Captain Flag appearing in Blue Ribbon Comics. |
| |
| Synopsis | Kardak exposes a street ruffian to intolerance when he witnesses the bully abusing a refugee. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Nazis (villain); Kardak; Balthar; Heinrich; Butch |
| |
| Credits | Script:? (ad copy) | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Inside back cover. Ad by the Peck Brothers for mail order items. |
| |
| Featuring | Remington Noiseless Deluxe Portable Typewriter |
| Credits | Script:? (ad copy) | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Back cover. Ad for the Remington Noiseless Deluxe Portable Typewriter. |
| |
| The data in the additional content section is courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under a
Creative Commons Attribution License.
More details about this comic may be available in their page here |
