| Additional Information |
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| Publication | April 1942 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: bi-monthly |
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| Featuring | Lash Lightning |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Lash Lightning [Robert Morgan]; The Raven [Danny Dartin]; Doctor Nemesis; Marvo the Magician; Cappie Young; Hap Hazard; Congo Jack; The Eel [Professor Aqua] |
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| Comic Story | Lash Lightning Battles the Eel!! (13 pages) |
| Synopsis | Billed as the "Human Fish," Professor Aqua was embittered by his life as a circus freak, so he becomes a criminal mastermind known as the Eel. |
| Featuring | Lash Lightning |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Lash Lightning [Robert Morgan]; The Eel [Professor Aqua] (villain) |
| Notes | Script credit from Mark Carlson-Ghost in Alter Ego #144 (January, 2017).
The Raven story in this issue also has a villain called The Eel. Other than the name, there is no indication it is the same character as the villain in this story. |
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| Comic Story | The Eel's Smuggling Operation (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | Raven goes after a jewel smuggling ring lead by The Eel. |
| Featuring | The Raven |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Raven [Danny Dartin]; The Eel [Professor Aqua] (villain) |
| Notes | Turner script credit suggested by the Who's Who. The Sundell credit from Mark Carlson-Ghost in Alter Ego #144 (January, 2017), based on circumstantial evidence.
There is no indication that this is the same character as the one in the Lash Lightning story also in this issue other than the name “The Eel”. |
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| Comic Story | The Army Gets Fumed (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | Dr Nemesis investigates the cause of a mysterious plague. |
| Featuring | Doctor Nemesis |
| Content | Genre: Drama | Characters: Doctor Nemesis |
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| Comic Story | Museum Artifacts Go Missing (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Marvo helps a women find her kidnapped father. |
| Featuring | Marvo the Magician And Tito |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Marvo the Magician |
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| Synopsis | Cappie and Brask are hired by the Chinese to truck ammunition and supplies along the Burma Rd. |
| Featuring | Cappie Young |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Cappie Young; Brask Cooper. |
| Notes | Artist used Milt Caniff's Terry and the Pirates for artistic guidance.
In the previous issue Brask Cooper was called Bras Cooper (short for Nebraska). |
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| Comic Story | Lippy Larue and his Gang (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Hap chases a story about a pickpocketing ring. |
| Featuring | Hap Hazard |
| Content | Genre: Crime | Characters: Hap Hazard |
| Notes | Art is identical to the "Dameron" signed story in the previous issue. |
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| Text Story | Grubstake to Hades (2 pages) |
| Featuring | Bid Patton |
| Credits | Script: Benni Wilson Gardner [as Clint Douglas] (credited) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Characters: Bid Patton |
| Notes | According to Fictionmag Index Clint Douglas was an Ace house pseudonym used by B W Gardner, a pulp author. This story originally appeared in their pulp magazine Western Aces dated Oct 1940. |
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| Comic Story | The Lane Expedition (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Congo Jack attempts to rescue two people kidnapped by a tribe with “iron skin”. |
| Featuring | Congo Jack |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Congo Jack |
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