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Issue: #2
Published: September 1939, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing:
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U.S. Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Notes: Entire contents copyright 1939 by E. M. Arnold. On sale date from the publication date and volume number found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 34, 1939, Number 3. Class B periodical. Copyright number B 424389. Volume number not listed in the indicia of this comic.

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)
Genre:	Spy
Characters:	Black Ace Wings Wendall (inset) Archie O'Toole (inset) Bozo The Robot (inset) Abdul The Arab (inset)

Comic Story (9 pages)	War in the Far East!
Genre:	Spy
Characters:	Espionage [Black Ace] Col. Atwater Duke Dynamo Ellis Craven Batu

Comic Story (4 pages)	The Black Gang
Featuring:	The Lone Star Rider
Synopsis:	A young boy vows revenge after rustlers kill his parents.
Genre:	Western-frontier
Characters:	Clem Gallant The Black Gang Donny Gallant [The Lone Star Rider]

Comic Story (1 page)
Genre:	Humor

Comic Story (7 pages)	The Fate of Bagdad
Genre:	Adventure
Characters:	Abdul Inspector Webley Siva Siddi Ben Yusuf Hassan

Comic Story (2 pages)	Case of the Missing Walrus
Genre:	Detective-mystery
Characters:	Philpot Veep Waldo

Comic Story (1 page)	Ernie Lombardi
Genre:	Sports

Comic Story (7 pages)	The First Trial
Synopsis:	While Hazzard wastes no time in adding a flying device to the robot, Commissioner Hunt is very displeased that this robot was on the loose after ordering it destroyed. Hunt is in the process of ordering Hazzard to turn the robot over to him when a news flash concerning a kidnapping interrupts the demand. Hazzard sees a chance to prove Bozo's worth, and uses the robot to capture the kidnapper's plane, thus proving the value of the robot in crime fighting, especially since Hunt liked the idea that he could use Hazzard's services at no expense to taxpayers.
Genre:	Science Fiction
Characters:	Hugh Hazzard Bozo The Robot Commissioner Hunt Alvin Hinton Gyp Catrone (villain)

Comic Story (2 pages)	Midget Auto Races
Genre:	Humor Children

Comic Story (5 pages)	Stealing the Mona Lisa
Genre:	Detective-mystery
Characters:	Captain Craig Cook Rene Landrue

Comic Story (5 pages)	The Origin of the Invisible Hood
Synopsis:	The Spade Gang captures a scientist who has discovered the secret of invisiblity by the use of a new phosphorescent chemical. The scientist is killed, but not before bestowing his secret on Kent Thurston, who now becomes known as the Invisible Hood.
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Invisible Hood [Kent Thurston] Professor Hans Van Dorn (scientist, Death) Garrick Spade (villain) Spade Gang (villains)

Comic Story (5 pages)
Synopsis:	Crooks try to fix a ball game by electrifying the base paths.
Genre:	Sports
Characters:	Dave Bugs Clip Chance

Text Story (2 pages)	Mystery at Catalina, Chapter II
Credits:	Letters: typeset

Comic Story (1 page)

James Cagney

Comic Story (7 pages)	Murder at Sea
Genre:	Detective-mystery
Characters:	Pop Frtiz Hoffman (dies) Johnson (dies)

Comic Story (7 pages)	Sabotage
Synopsis:	A female spy sabotages a new American plane
Genre:	Aviation
Characters:	Wings Wendall Prentiss Lisa

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