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Publication | July 1941 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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Credits | Inks: Bob Wood [as Woodro] (signed) |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Daredevil [Bart Hill]; Silver Streak [unnamed taxi cab driver]; Dickie Dean; Adolf Hitler (photo of head); The Claw |
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Featuring | Silver Streak Comics |
Content | Characters: Silver Streak (unnamed taxi cab driver); Cloud Curtis; Dickie Dean [Richard Dean]; Zip Todd; The Pirate Prince; Daredevil [Bart Hill]; Lance Hale; The Claw |
Notes | Found on the inside front cover.
Features prototype cover of an issue of Silver Streak Comics, with the characters listed above surrounding it, announcing that all of them will return to Silver Streak once Hitler is defeated in this issue.. |
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Comic Story | Daredevil Battles Hitler (Chapter 1) (16 pages) |
Synopsis | Daredevil crashes in on a meeting at Berchtesgaden in which Hitler makes final plans to invade England across the Channel, then has to evade Nazi soldiers seeking to locate and kill him. Meanwhile, British Prime Minister Churchill meets with Daredevil and the Silver Streak and assigns them to watch a mysterious cottage on the Downs, which leads to an all-out naval battle with the enemy. |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Daredevil [Bart Hill]; Silver Streak [unnamed taxi cab driver]; Whiz (Silver Streak's falcon); Prime Minister Winston Churchill; Adolf Hitler (villain); Joseph Goebbels (villain); Reichsmarshall Hermann Göring (villain); Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler (villain); Grand Admiral Erich Raeder (villain); Field Marshall Walter von Brauchitsch (villain); Benito Mussolini (villain); Putzie (villain, Nazi fortune teller); Lord Garnett (villain, member of Parliament); Jack (villain); Lord Hee Haw (villain, voice only); the Nazis (villains, some die) |
Notes | Daredevil feature continues from Silver Streak Comics (Lev Gleason, 1939 series) #6.
Story and art credits verified by Michael Gilbert. |
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Comic Story | The Claw Double Crosses Hitler! (Chapter 2) (7 pages) |
Synopsis | Hitler approaches the Claw to ask his assistance in helping him and the Japanese successfully attack and destroy the British in Singapore. Daredevil poses as a lieutenant of the Claw to get behind enemy lines to stop the attack. |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Daredevil [Bart Hill]; The Claw (villain); Adolf Hitler (villain); the Japanese (villains, some die) |
Notes | The chapters' masthead reads The Claw.
Story and art credits verified by Michael Gilbert. |
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Featuring | Hash |
Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Doc Smith |
Notes | The Archives edition lists the story and art as unknown.
A series of five non-related humorous cartoon gags. |
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Comic Story | Fighting Hitler and His Jungle Hordes (Chapter 3) (7 pages) |
Synopsis | Daredevil and Lance must stop Hitler's plans to conquer Africa from within, aimed at cutting Great Britain off from her colonial empire. |
Featuring | Daredevil [Golden Age]; Lance Hale |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Daredevil [Bart Hill]; Lance Hale; Adolf Hitler (villain); General von Sputt (villain); Schmidt (villain); the Nazis (villains) |
Notes | The Archives edition lists the writer as unknown. |
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Publisher advertisement | Here It Is, Kids! The Comic Book They're All Talking About!! (2 pages) |
Featuring | Silver Streak Comics |
Credits | Script: Bob Wood (signed) | Pencils: Bob Wood (signed) | Inks: Bob Wood (signed) |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Silver Streak [un-named taxi cab driver]; Mercury [Mickey O'Toole]; Captain Battle [Jonathan Battle]; Daredevil [Bart Hill]; The Pirate Prince; Presto Martin; Dickie Dean [Richard Dean]; Zip Todd; Cloud Curtis; The Claw |
Notes | Two page advertisement for Silver Streak Comics, featuring a prototype cover, illustrations of each character with short bio of each. |
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Comic Story | Smash Goebbels' Spy Net (Chapter 4) (7 pages) |
Synopsis | Dickie is summoned to Washington D.C. with his latest invention: a fool-proof decoding machine. Unfortunately, it is stolen by several Nazi agents, who try and rush it back to Berlin before Dean, Todd and Daredevil can stop them. |
Featuring | Daredevil With Dickie Dean, Boy Inventor |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Daredevil [Bart Hill]; Dickie Dean [Richard Dean]; Zip Todd; unnamed British Intelligence Officer; Adolf Hitler (villain); Joseph Goebbels (villain) |
Notes | Story and art credits verified by Michael Gilbert. |
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Featuring | Jus' Gags |
Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Mike |
Notes | Series of five un-related gag cartoons. |
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Comic Story | Wreck Goering's Sky-Fighters (ch. 5) (7 pages) |
Synopsis | Daredevil and Cloud help fight off the murderous Nazi air blitzkrieg with the help of the RAF, including stopping the Nazi Reichsmarshall, who accepts Cloud's proposal to battle it out with each other in the air. |
Featuring | Daredevil and Cloud Curtis |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Daredevil [Bart Hill]; Cloud Curtis; Reichsmarshall Hermann Göring (villain); Adolf Hitler (villain); the Nazis (villains, some die) |
Notes | The Archive edition lists the writer as unknown. |
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Comic Story | Von Roeder, Nazi Sea Raider (Chapter 6) (7 pages) |
Synopsis | Hitler orders his Grand Admiral to patrol the English Channel every night and sink every ship in sight. However, Der Führer doesn't count on Daredevil and the Pirate Prince from stopping that effort! |
Featuring | Daredevil and Pirate Prince |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Daredevil [Bart Hill]; The Pirate Prince; Adolf Hitler (villain); Grand Admiral Erich Raeder (villain) |
Notes | Art credits by Michael Gilbert. Signature on life preserver. |
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Comic Story | The Man of Hate Adolf Hitler - Dictator of Germany! (9 pages) |
Synopsis | The rise of Hitler from a budding artist to soldier in World War I to Chancellor and finally as a rising dictator, hoping to become master of the world! |
Featuring | Hitler |
Credits | Letters:?; typeset |
Content | Genre: Biography; War | Characters: Hans; Chancellor Englebert Dollfuss (of Austria); Edward Benes (Czech President); Adolf Hitler (villain); Field Marshall Paul von Hindenburg (death); Mars (villain, god of war); the Nazis (villains) |
Notes | Corrected page count from Chris Launder (01/15/2005).
Biography in art and text of Adolf Hitler. |
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Featuring | Comicscope |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
Content | Characters: Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bucky [Bucky Barnes] |
Notes | Illustrated advertisement for the 1941 giant camera Comicscope, offered by the publishers of Daredevil magazine for only 25 cents. It ran on either AC or DC current, and allowed boys and girls to draw their own comics, screen them (or any comic) and then project them. The ad states that 63,458 boys and girls have purchased this camera projector. |
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Credits | Script: Bob Wood? (signed) | Pencils: Bob Wood (signed) | Inks: Bob Wood (signed) | Letters: typeset |
Content | Characters: Daredevil [Bart Hill]; London [Marc Holmes]; Whirlwind [Terry Truner]; Nightro [Hugh Goddard]; Pat Patriot; Dash Dillon; Real American Number One [Jeff Dixon]; The Claw |
Notes | Found on the back cover.
Illustrated promotional advertisement for issue #2 of Daredevil Comics, with the characters shown as listed above, on sale June 10, 1941. |
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