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| Publication | November 1941 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: bimonthly |
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| Featuring | The Eagle |
| Content | Genre: Superhero; War | Characters: The Eagle [Captain Bill Powers]; Buddy |
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| Comic Story | The Fifth Column of the Indians (15 pages) |
| Synopsis | Arriving at Camp Ensenada to visit her brother, Sally learns that her brother was captured by Native Americans. |
| Featuring | The Eagle |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Eagle [Captain Bill Powers]; Buddy; John Red-Dust (villain, introduction); Count Felix Burkweis (villain, introduction); Sgt. Caldwell; Lem; Sit-in-Mud; Sally Caldwell; Major Dunham |
| Notes | I was unable to locate the accreditation "Lester Raye" in this story, but the other Eagle stories in this issue are signed as Lester Raye so the assumption can be made that this particular story is also scripted by Louis Cazeneuve. |
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| Comic Story | Death Deals in Gold (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Eagle and his cohorts break up a plot by Nazi's to ship American gold to Germany. |
| Featuring | The Eagle |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Eagle [Captain Bill Powers]; Buddy; Condor (villain, introduction); Gruber (villain, introduction); Sit-in-Mud; Jane Stewart; Lem; Sally Caldwell; Sgt. Caldwell |
| Notes | A number of sources state that Lester Raye is a pseudonym for Louis Cazeneuve. |
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| Comic Story | The Trio Who Worked for Satan (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | During their visit of a Hollywood movie set, Captain Powers and his party encounter a group of saboteurs out to destroy anti-Axis films. |
| Featuring | The Eagle |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Eagle [Captain Bill Powers]; Buddy; The Unholy Three [Wong; Chubby; Roly] (villains, introduction for all); Wells; Lem Yokel; Sally Caldwell |
| Notes | A number of sources state that Lester Raye is a pseudonym for Louis Cazeneuve. |
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| Comic Story | The Unholy Three Return (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Unholy Three help Dan Cartone escape from prison. |
| Featuring | The Eagle |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Eagle [Captain Bill Powers]; Buddy; The Unholy Three [Wong; Chubby; Roly] (villains); Dan Cartone (villain, introduction, death); Jimmy Cartone; American Eagle Defenders |
| Notes | A number of sources state that Lester Raye is a pseudonym for Louis Cazeneuve. |
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| Comic Story | The Torture Racketeers (7.5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Spider Queen must battle a vicious group of racketeers who, by means of threats, torture and kidnapping, is forcing small store keepers to sign over their shops. |
| Featuring | The Spider Queen |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Spider Queen [Shannon Kane]; Detective Mike O'Bell; group of racketeers (villains) |
| Notes | The AC reprint credits Louis Cazeneuve as penciler and Art Cazeneuve as inker. Elsa Lesau/Lisau are pseudonyms of the Cazeneuve Brothers (Louis and Arturo). The pseudonym is spelt Lesau in issue #2 and spelt Lisau in this and issue #4. It is probable that Louis scripted and Arturo inked this story.
The last half of page 8 is an illustrated advertisement for The Gladiator, great new hero appearing in Fantastic Comics. On sale August 8th. Illustration penciled by Pierce Rice. |
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| Text Story | Nothing Ever Happens (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Don encounters a saboteur attempting to blow up a subway train. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Don Hastings; Sgt. Oneil |
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| Comic Story | The Origin of Joe Spook (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Von Zuppe and Sutzel attempt to force Nickie the Boy King into abdicating the throne of Luzano. |
| Featuring | Joe Spook |
| Credits | Script: Sam Walters (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Fantasy | Characters: Joe Spook [Joe Devaney] (first appearance; origin; death; reborn; a ghost); Nickie the Boy King [King Nicholas Robertus Christopher Alexander Paul Danilo Danilovich] (first appearance; origin); Von Zuppe (first appearance; villain); Sutzel (first appearance; villain) |
| Notes | A previous editor stated that Sam Citron is credited as pencilling this, but I was unable to locate an accreditation in the scanned copy I viewed. |
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