| Additional Information |
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| Publication | August 1941 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Daredevil [Bart Hill]; The Claw (inset) |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Found on the inside front cover.
Lists all 10 features inside the book with super brief synopses.
Also lists the Editors as Charles Biro and Bob Wood. |
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| Comic Story | The Kiss of Death (13 pages) |
| Synopsis | Forty years after he and his partner discovered the tomb of Princess Sheba, Dr. Pierce, knowing the Princess was buried alive, discovers a secret hidden inside the golden cobra buried with her: a serum which can bring her back to life! |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Daredevil [Bart Hill]; Tonia Saunders (Bart's girl friend); Dr. Pierce (introduction, death); Rving (Pierce's driver); Joe (Policeman); Princess Sheba (villain, introduction, death) |
| Notes | The splash page features the "Seal of the Princess Sheba". |
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| Comic Story | Introducing the Whirlwind (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Terry Turner is taking on an inhuman brute named Jean Jacques for the heavyweight championship, and learns that two swindlers, who tricked his Dad into signing some papers, are asking Terry to take a dive in the fight, or else his Dad will go up the river. |
| Featuring | The Whirlwind |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: The Whirlwind [Terry Turner] (introduction, a boxer); Mr. Turner (introduction); Bonnie (introduction, Terry's girl friend); Jean Jacques (villain, lumberjack, introduction); Dolores [also as Delores] (villain, introduction); Monte (villain, fight promoter, introduction) |
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| Synopsis | Two unscrupulous miners, having discovered a vein of pitchblend (or radium), have their find confirmed by scientist, Hugh Goddard. But when Hugh suggests turning the discovery over to the Cancer Cure Foundation, the greedy miners club Hugh and depart with their discovery, leaving Goddard abandoned in the Alaska wilderness with little hope of survival. |
| Featuring | Nightro, the Streamlined Robin Hood |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Nightro [Hugh Goddard] (introduction, scientist, origin); Dr. Miller (introduction); Hoag (villain, introduction); Tollini (villain, introduction) |
| Notes | Writer verified by Michael Gilbert.
Nightro, who becomes snow blind, can see again with the use of polaroid lenses in his glasses, something strangely familar when one looks at how DC's Dr. Mid-Nite could see with infra-red lenses. |
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| Comic Story | Baseball Beginnings (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | The baseball team at Hale University is doing poorly and Coach Taylor is in danger of losing his job. However, his daughter suggests to Dash Dillon that he join the team since he is such a great pitcher and hitter.......and his talents may be enough to turn things around and save her Dad's job. |
| Featuring | Dash Dillon at Hale |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Dash Dillon (introduction, medical student); Coach Taylor; Lynn Taylor (the baseball coach's daughter); Tony (Dash's friend); |
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| Comic Story | The Coming of the Pioneer (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Pioneer hears a crash and discovers a wrecked car with injured men at the bottom of a gorge. He nurses them back to health, not realizing that they are escaped killers! |
| Featuring | Pioneer, Champion of America |
| Credits | Script: Bob Wood |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: The Pioneer (introduction, origin); The Boss (villain); Joe (villain); Scotty (villain) |
| Notes | Only appearance, even though the last panel says that the Pioneer will return in the next issue.
Writer confirmed by Michael Gilbert.
When the artist signed his name, below it it reads "Copr. 1941 The Freelance". |
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| Text Story | Daredevil on "Defense" (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | While investigating illegal alien entries, Daredevil visits a small cafe in San Francisco and learns about a brutal man named Nick Mondello, who is behind the wave of smuggled aliens into the area. |
| Credits | Script: Charles Biro? [as Daredevil] (signed) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Daredevil [Bart Hill]; Polas (half-breed cafe owner in San Francisco); Sin Lee (Chinese); Nick Mondello (villain, death?); un-named assistant to Mondello (villain) |
| Notes | The last part of page two has a feature mastheaded "Daredevil's Punch-of-the-Month", with title "The Left-Hook", plus an illustration of Daredevil. Daredevil explains when the punch is usually used and how it is delivered. |
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| Comic Story | Origin of the Bronze Terror (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Unscrupulous renegade Scar Thornton fills the Indians with liquor and fleeces them of their money on crooked games of chance. When the Chief of the tribe appears and tells all of his tribal members to go home, Scar takes offense and vows to kill the Indian. |
| Featuring | Real American #1 |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Sports | Characters: The Bronze Terror [Jeff Dixon] (introduction, son of an Indian Chief, lawyer, origin); White Falcon (introduction, Jeff's father); Lilly (introduction, Jeff's childhood sweetheart); un-named Sheriff; un-named aide to the Chief (death); Mr. Welch (villain, crooked lawyer); Judge Hawks (villain); Zeke (villain, death); Scar Thornton (villain, introduction) |
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| Comic Story | London Can Take It! (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | A prisoner in a concentration camp, Franz escapes with the help of Dian and makes his way to London, where he is greeted and lauded by the Prime Minister himself. However, Holmes smells a rat, and that rat turns out to be Franz himself, who kidnaps Churchill and is in the process of taking him to see Hitler himself when he is stopped by Holmes. |
| Featuring | London |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: London [Marc Holmes] (introduction); Dian (introduction); Prime Minister Winston Churchill; Admiral Hawkins; Dian (Prime Minister's niece); Franz (villain); the Nazis (villains) |
| Notes | Script credit from Jerry Robinson. |
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| Comic Story | Origin of Pat Patriot (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Pat is fired from her job at the Mallison Airplane Plant by a less than friendly foreman and appears in a play later that evening, garbed in a rather patriotic costume. Later, when she discovers that her former foreman is smuggling airplane engines to the enemy, she steps forward to stop his activities. |
| Featuring | Pat Patriot, America's Joan of Arc |
| Credits | Script: Bob Wood [as Chuck Woodro] (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Pat Patriot [Patricia Patrios] (introduction, origin); Mike Brown (introduction, Pat's boy friend); un-named foreman (villain, introduction) |
| Notes | The Archives reprint lists Reed Crandall as artist. However, the art style here resembles the work of Frank Borth on the Phantom Lady. |
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| Comic Story | World's Worst Villain (9 pages) |
| Synopsis | After leaving work, Jean Rogers reads in the paper that her brother Dick is missing after an entire trainload of men enroute for Army maneuvers has vanished. Meanwhile, President Roosevelt receives a letter from the Claw stating that he has those men held prisoner, and unless the President grants trhe Claw full control of the nation's gold supply, the men await a horrible fate! |
| Featuring | The Claw |
| Credits | Script: Bob Wood (signed) | Pencils: Bob Wood (signed) | Inks: Bob Wood (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: The Claw (villain); Daredevil [Bart Hill] (cameo); Mrs. Hopkins (introduction, Jean's mother); Bill Hopkins (introduction, an engineer, Jean's brother); Jean Hopkins [aka known as Jean Rogers] (introduction, secretary); Bea (Jean's co-worker); Dick Hopkins (introduction, Jean's other brother); President Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Notes | The last panel gives the title of next issue's story: "The Battle of the Centuries!". |
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| Publisher advertisement | New - Sensational (1 page) |
| Featuring | Captain Battle Comics |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Characters: Captain Battle [Jonathan Battle] |
| Notes | Illustrated promotional advertisement for Captain Battle Comics #1 (no cover pictured), which lists the titles of the three Captain Battle stories, with synopses, and other ballyhoo. |
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| Publisher advertisement | Best of Them All! (1 page) |
| Featuring | Silver Streak Comics |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Characters: Silver Streak [unknown taxi cab driver]; Meteor [Mickey O'Toole]; Daredevil [Bart Hill]; Captain Battle [Jonathan Battle]; Hale Battle |
| Notes | Found on the back cover.
Illustrated promotional advertisement for the latest issue of Silver Streak Comics, picturing the main characters in the book. |
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