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Publication | January 1942 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 |
Notes | Signature in the bottom-right section, consistent with the signature on the cover of the previous issue. |
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Featuring | The Eagle |
Content | Genre: Superhero; War | Characters: The Eagle [Captain Bill Powers]; Buddy |
Notes | Signature in the bottom-right section, consistent with the signature on the cover of the previous issue. |
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Comic Story | The Killers That Satan Hired! (15 pages) |
Featuring | The Eagle |
Content | Genre: Superhero; War | Characters: The Eagle [Captain Bill Powers]; Buddy; Baron Der Skenk; Mustafa; Scarecrow; Sally Caldwell; Lem |
Notes | Script accreditation assumed based on writer of the other Eagle stories in this issue. |
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Comic Story | The Monster of the Tropics (10 pages) |
Featuring | The Eagle |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Eagle [Captain Bill Powers]; Buddy; Lem; Conley |
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Comic Story | Defenders to the Rescue! (6 pages) |
Synopsis | Mr. Willis, an expert in codes, is kidnapped by Nazi agents to decode a message. |
Featuring | The Eagle |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Eagle [Captain Bill Powers]; Buddy; The Young Defenders [Archie; Jerry; Various Unamed]; Mr. Willis; Ken Willis; Fritz (villain) |
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Comic Story | The Demon of the Quicksands (10 pages) |
Featuring | The Eagle |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Eagle [Captain Bill Powers]; Buddy; Scarecrow; Major Hackett; Beck; Lem; Sally Caldwell |
Notes | Scripter based on authorship of other Eagle stories. |
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Synopsis | Mike informs Shannon that the Noose has broken jail and sworn revenge on all who played a part in sending him up the river. The Spider Queen stops the villain from killing the judge in the case, so the Noose swears that he will kill the Spider Queen and ends up killing the wrong girl. |
Featuring | The Spider Queen |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Spider Queen [Shannon Kane]; Mike O'Bell (detective); Judge Brindow; The Noose (villain) |
Notes | Final Golden Age appearance. Decades after the character entered the public domain, Marvel Comics created their own version of the Spider Queen, introducing her in INVADERS (Marvel, 1993 series) #1-4.
Elsa Lisau is a pseudonym of the Cazeneuve brothers (Louis and Arturo), it is assumed that Arturo inked this story |
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Text Story | False Alarm (2 pages) |
Credits | Script: Gene Rider (credited) | Letters: typeset |
Content | Genre: Military | Characters: Les Barton; Herman; Rudolph |
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Synopsis | Von Zuppe and Gutzel continue to plot together on how to get Nicky to abdicate the throne of Luzano. |
Featuring | Joe Spook |
Credits | Script: Sam Walters (signed) |
Content | Genre: Fantasy | Characters: Joe Spook [Joe Devaney] (a ghost; last appearance); Nicky the Boy King; Von Zuppe; Gutzel; Fritz; Otto |
Notes | Nicky was spelled Nickie in Eagle Comics #3. Gutzel was referred to as Sutzel in Eagle Comics #3. |
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