Issue: #27
Published: July 1942, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing: Harry Shorten
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age US Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing
Notes: Story titles from inside front cover. The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1942, New Series, Vol. 37, No. 2.
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| Comic Story (13 pages) |
The Black Dragon of Death! |
| Synopsis: |
A dead man found in a burned car, identified by John Raymond as the missing General Mason, has been murdered by The Black Dragon. Raymond changes into the Web to track down the villain, but in the process inadvertently leaves clues that Rose Wayne has found, through which she discovers that John Raymond is the Web. |
| Genre: |
Superhero |
| Characters: |
The Web [John Raymond] (criminology Professor, Introduction) Rose Wayne (Raymond's Future Wife, Learns The Web's Secret Identity, Introduction) General Mason (death) The Black Dragon (villain, Introduction) Japanese Spies [Lin Chow Rest Unnamed] (villains, Introduction For All, Many Die) Nick Morro (villain, Big-shot Gangster, Introduction) Morro's Gang (villains, Introduction For All) |
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