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| Publication | October 1941 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Cover | Death is the Referee! |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Daredevil [Bart Hill]; Tonia Saunders; Hans Meyer |
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| Contents | Daredevil Presents 10 Smash Features (1 page) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Characters: Daredevil [Bart Hill] |
| Notes | Found on the inside front cover.
TOC losting the 10 features included in the magazine with super brief synopses and a head view of Daredevil. It lists Charles Biro and Bob Wood as Editors. |
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| Comic Story | Death Is the Referee (13 pages) |
| Synopsis | Sue and Jeff are taking their yacht to an uncharted island in the Pacific Ocean for their honeymoon and invite Bart and Tonia to accompany them. Unfortunately, when they are shipwrecked on the island, they face a cruel dictator who is out to kill all the men and make one the ladies his wife. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Daredevil [Bart Hill]; Tonia Saunders; Sue Smith (fiancee of Jeff); Jeff Hart; un-named yacht Captain; Hans Meyer (villain, dictator of the island, death) |
| Notes | Story title taken from the cover. Story inspired by "The Most Dangerous Game".
The last panels gives the title to next issue's story: "Dead Men Can Talk". |
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| Text Story | Pardons for Cash (3 pages) |
| Synopsis | Racket king Shultz waits for the prison baseball team to take the field, with him keeping score, in order to make an ingenious prison break at just the right time. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Daredevil [Bart Hill]; un-named prison guard; Captain Mellon (of the F.B.I.); Jonathan C. Shultz (villain, death); Sapone (villain) |
| Notes | The last section of page 3 features the illustrated "Daredevil's Punch-of-the-Month," which spotlights "The Solar Plexus Punch Just Below the Ribs", describing how to effectively deliver this crippling blow. |
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| Comic Story | The Claw In Captivity!!! (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Claw is captured and brought to New York City in chains, kept in a special holding area at the Central Park Zoo until a massive prison can be built to house him. However, the villain escapes and looks for Bill and Jean Hopkins to exact his revenge. |
| Featuring | The Claw |
| Credits | Script: Bob Wood (signed) | Pencils: Bob Wood (signed) | Inks: Bob Wood (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Claw (villain); Bill Hopkins; Jean Hopkins; Mrs. Hopkins (Jean's mother); Fu (villain, one of the Claw's agents) |
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| Comic Story | In Glory Canyon (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Pat's old friend, Chester Wood, invites her to come out to his ranch near Glory Canyon, where he is in charge of building the Glory Dam. After she arrives, Woods advises her that unknown parties have been attempting to destroy the dam as it supplies vital electricity to vital defense industries. |
| Featuring | Pat Patriot |
| Credits | Script: Bob Wood |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Pat Patriot [Patricia Patrios]; Chester Wood (introduction); un-named Sheriff; Butternose (villain, ranch hand, introduction) |
| Notes | The Archives reprint lists Reed Crandall as artist, but the work resemebles that of Borth on Phantom Lady.
Oddity: Pat is shown alternately with and without her cape. |
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| Comic Story | Fu Tong (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Reading about the loss of a fourteenth Navy pilot, Hugh Goddard realizes that the pilots were better pilots than that, and chooses to investigate. He discovers that the pilots were suckered into landing their planes near a decoy plane, where they were captured. |
| Featuring | Nightro |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Nightro [Hugh Goddard]; Blackie (Goddard's dog); Fong (villain, introduction); Lee Tang (villain, introduction); un-named other gang members (villains, introduction for all) |
| Notes | Script credit from Michael Gilbert. |
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| Comic Story | Rossi the Racketeer (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Rossi and his gang come to the city of Redfield, where they set up a new atraction: an amusement center comprised of crooked gambling machines. |
| Featuring | Real American Number One |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Western-frontier | Characters: The Bronze Terror [Jeff Dixon]; White Falcon; Rossi (villain, introduction, death); Butch (villain, introduction); Stella (villain, introduction); other un-named gang members (villains, introduction for all) |
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| Comic Story | The Mystery Sub (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | Dash is told by the dean of the college that he must pass his German exam on Friday or be ineligible for the football team, just as a radio broadcast tells of the sinking of a U.S. ship by a German submarine. When Dash rounds up the crew of the sub, the President of the United Sates presents Dash with the Distinguished Service Cross. |
| Featuring | Dash Dillon at Hale |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Dash Dillon; Carrie; Socko; Dean Roberts; President Franklin D. Roosevelt (cameo); un-named German U-Boat Commander (villain); other un-named Nazis (villains) |
| Notes | Script credit from Archive reprint. |
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| Comic Story | The Glass Gargoyle (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Higgins decides to go to the museum to see the famed Egyptian Buddha that has gruesome tradegies associated with it. While he's there, a gang of crooks enter and make off with the exhibit which contains a key to an Egyptian code. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Thirteen [Harold Higgins]; Officer Casey (Policeman); Arthur C. Yates (villain, explorer and lecturer, introduction); Compello (villain, introduction, death); Inky (villain) |
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| Featuring | Puzzle Fun |
| Content | Characters: Jack Bunny; Jim Panzee; Mrs. Hen |
| Notes | Page contains six different activities for the reader to do, including finding seven intentional mistakes in a drawing and finding hidden pictures. |
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| Comic Story | The Submarine Signaller (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | A rather unique voyage occurs, the ship carrying a diplomat, a condemned criminal, an aspiring playright and a fading movie actress all on the trail of a ship sunk by a German U-Boat. |
| Featuring | London |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: London [Marc Holmes]; Prime Minister Winston Churchill (cameo); Bland (villain, introduction); The Nazis (villains) |
| Notes | Script credit from Jerry Robinson. |
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| Comic Story | The New Manager (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Terry's contract is placed in the hands of his fighter manager's attorney, who informs the boxer that he is to report to Westchester to help with an "Aid For Britain" boxing exhibition. |
| Featuring | Whirlwind The Blonde Bomber |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Whirlwind [Terry Turner]; Tim (Terry's fight manager); Jackie Wings (fight promoter, introduction); Atwood (Tim's attorney); Dobbs (Wing's butler); Mr. Shaeffer (fight promoter); Mauler Murphy (boxer) |
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| Publisher advertisement | Get It On Your Newsstand Now (1 page) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Characters: Captain Battle [Jonathan Battle]; Hale Battle |
| Notes | Illustrated promotional advertisement for Captain Battle Comics #1 with cover pictured. |
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| Advertisement | Free Focusing Power Telescope With This Offer (1 page) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Found on the back cover.
Illustrated advertisement from Metro Publications, who offer readers a free telescope with their purchase of a book titled "Scientific Wonders of the World" for only $1.98. Has coupon. |
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