Willie, the President of the Chamber of Criminal Commerce, offers a grand prize of $10,000 to anyone who sends them the best idea for a successful crime wave in the postwar underworld.
Genre
Superhero
Characters
The Green Lama [Jethro Dumont]; Tsarong; Lieutenant Caraway; Willie the Sleeper (villain, introduction)
The last 1/3 of the last page of the story is an illustrated ad for the Green Lama Club. Letterer credit added by Craig Delich 2008-10-5.
PSA
Smith? Kelly? Cohen? Svoboda? (1 page)
Synopsis
Illustrated ad encouraging Americans to join the war effort and buy War Bonds.
Feature
War Bonds
Letters
typeset
Comic Story
A Genius in the Family! (8 pages)
Synopsis
Tuffy writes what he thinks is a masterpiece and sees a man about publishing it, which he agrees to do. But Tuffy is not aware the man plans to use the publishing of the book as a cover for a crime!
Feature
The Boy Champions
Genre
Superhero
Characters
The Boy Champions [Tuffy; Mickey; Wellington Smith]; Horace Higginbottom (villain); Higginbottom's gang (villains)
Inspector McCabe asks Professor Hoyle help him solve the murder of James Sterling, a man strangled to death on a life raft in the water while half a dozen people watched.
Letters
typeset
Genre
Crime
Characters
Inspector McGabe; Professor Sam Hoyle; Mrs. Sterling; John Gardner (villain)
While at a library, Mac Erc runs into a student of the dark arts who plans to release one Paracelsus from his imprisonment in a tree for the last few centuries.
Feature
Angus Mac Erc
Genre
Adventure
Characters
Angus Mac Erc [aka Mc Erc]; Time; Mr. Magdelene; Chumley Sister Maudlin; Paracelsus
When Rick Masters and his sidekick set up their commercial air operations, they thought it would be smooth sailing. And it would have been, except for a dictionary, a dying man, a stolen safe and the power of static electricity.
Feature
Rick Masters
Genre
Adventure; Aviation
Characters
Rick Masters; Twin Eagle; F. X. MacIntyre (death); Peeves (villain, death); Big Casino (villain, death); Little Casino (villain, death)
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