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Silver Streak Comics
Date | Number: 21 | Lang: English (en)
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IN reference to the credit notation to "RED REED" below, I suspect that "Fitz" was a house-name at Gleason (like, "whatever fits...") but unless I'm reading the credits analysis wrong, I DON'T think Everett wrote these, if only because he had enough weight even in 1942 to have his flourishing signature on the splashes of both RED REED chapters he'd illustrated, and could easily have had the story credited to "By Bill Everett" if that were appropriate. Wolverton's proud posting of his own name on his intro of Scoop Scuttle bears this out, as do several other credits on the book.Gleason was magnanimous enough to credit his artists to a far greater extent than many other publishers at the time (even if Chas. Biro seemed to be signing everything whether he worked on it or not) and if Gleason were trying to secure ownership of a strip they thought had legs, (syndication still being the gold ring in those halcyon days) then it would be logical that a house name such as Fitz would get the byline. Further evidence by the sparse biographical info available about this vague presence in the Gleason shop. Extensive searching for further bio on "Fitz" going back to Gleason's days at Eastern Color Printing, have turned up nothing, which further suggests the likelihood of it being a House Name.
  
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NameSilver Streak Comics 21 | Published
PublicationPrice: 0.10 USD | Pages: 68 | Frequency: Monthly
NotesThe on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1942, New Series, Vol. 37, No. 2.
 
Cover1 page
GenreDetective-mystery
Charactersun-named Professor; Kapitan Gunther; the Nazis; Captain Battle [Jonathan Battle] (inset); Red Reed (inset); "Scoop" Scuttle (inset); Dickie Dean (inset)
Script (on Saint strip) (signed)
PencilsBernard Klein (Saint page) ? Edd Ashe ?
InksBernard Klein (Saint page) ? Edd Ashe ?
NotesKlein credits suggested by the Who's Who.

The head views of the other characters to left of Saint page are NOT by Klein and artist listing above has a ? to reflect this.
 
StoryThe Saint (13 pages)
GenreDetective-mystery
Charactersun-named professor; Winston Churchill; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Adolf Hitler (villain); Kapitan Gunther (villain); the Nazis (villains)
Script (signed)
PencilsBernard Klein ? Edd Ashe ?
InksBernard Klein ? Edd Ashe ?
First LineProfessor, while Pats in Russia [sic]...
NotesKlein credit suggested by the Who's Who.

The first six panels of the story are on the front cover.
 
Comic StorySecret Radio Messages (6 pages)
FeatureNed of the Navy
GenreAdventure; Military; War
CharactersNed Hale
PencilsIrv Watanabe (signed)
InksIrv Watanabe (signed)
First LineWhile the treacherous assault on Pearl Harbor...
NotesSigned with a stylized signature. Previous indexer attributed the art to Art Gates.
 
Comic StoryThe Spells of Black Magic / Captain Battle (8 pages)
PencilsJack Binder
InksJack Binder
 
Comic StoryFarmers Are Important Men (5 pages)
FeatureAlonzo Appleseed
Script ?
PencilsJack Warren (signed)
InksJack Warren (signed)
NotesSigned "Alonzo" on last panel. Jack Alonzo Vincent Warren used various permutations of his name on his comic book work.
 
CartoonThe City Slicker Who Slept Late (2 pages)
GenreHumor
Script (signed)
PencilsRon Santi (signed)
InksRon Santi (signed)
NotesCenterfold cartoon.
Ronald Santi credited by Jerry Bails as writer of his fillers for Lev Gleason.
 
Comic StoryThe Black Mask (6 pages)
FeaturePirate Prince
CharactersThe Black Mask (introduction)
PencilsDick Briefer
InksDick Briefer
 
Text StoryNo Title (3 pages)
FeatureFun
Letterstypeset
GenreHumor
 
Comic StoryOpera Star or Pickpocket Pincher? / Scoop Scuttle (4 pages)
Script
PencilsBasil Wolverton
InksBasil Wolverton
 
Text StoryCrimebuster Meets the Mysterious Dr. Kusu / Crimebuster (2 pages)
Letterstypeset
Script
 
Comic StoryNo Title (7 pages)
FeatureDickie Dean, the Boy Inventor
GenreAdventure; Humor
CharactersDickie Dean; Zip Todd; Senator Birro
Script ?
PencilsBob Montana (signed)
InksBob Montana (signed)
First LineYes, Dickie Dean in Washington...
NotesMontana signs in the final panel.
 
Comic StoryNo Title (8 pages)
SynopsisRed, Jose and Molly head for the capital city of Elcador to take on Zano and his Nazi-led men. But they are soon captured and imprisoned in a house once owned by a friend of theirs. They find a secret panel which enables them to escape and head for the mountain fortress of the Elcador leader, General Cados.
FeatureRed Reed in the Americas
GenreAdventure
CharactersRed Reed; Jose Navarro; Mollie Day; Jose's father (Elcador's Chief of Police); Garcia; Lumpenhunde (death); General Pancho Zano (villain, bandit); Manuel (villain); Herr Otto von Gruber (villain); Herr Kurtz (villain); the Nazis (villains)
Script ?
PencilsBill Everett (signed)
InksBill Everett (signed)
First LineLast month we left our young friends with their comrade, Molly Day...
NotesContinued from previous issue.

The story is by-lined "Bob Davis and Fitz" referred to in the previous issue as the feature's creators.

Continued next issue.
 
StoryThe Saint (1 page)
GenreAdventure
CharactersThe Saint [Simon Templar]
PencilsEdd Ashe (signed)
InksEdd Ashe (signed)
First LineThumbs up.
NotesOn back cover.
 
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