Issue: #4
Published: May 1940, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing:
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Silver Age US Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Notes: On sale date from the publication date found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 35, 1940, Number 2. Class B periodical. Copyright number B 449325.
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| Comic Story (7 pages) |
The Village of the Doomed |
| Synopsis: |
The Comet is seen by police and they start shooting at him. Wanting to clear his name and trying to do the right thing he turns himself in. He then escapes after he sees it's just a legal lynching. Shot, while flying away, The Comet collapses and is nursed back to health by a miner. The Comet repays the miner by trying to convince Riley to give his mines safe ventilation. Riley kills his own men, even though his partner protests. The Comet lifts his glass lenses to shoot what he thinks is a club, it's a stick of dynamite and Riley is blown up. Riley's partner then decides to make the changes. |
| Genre: |
Superhero |
| Characters: |
Mr. Cricket (villain, Introduction) Riley (villain, Introduction, Death) |
| Comic Story (6 pages) |
The Hunchback Horror |
| Synopsis: |
Legend tells of a Crackenthorpe ancestor who summoned a demon to gain riches to start the family fortune. The bride of each Crackenthorpe heir must bow to the demon, which Lady Brenda does. When her husband, the Earl of Crackenthorpe, comes to save her, the demon kills him. Bentley suspects murder, the suspects: The earl's brother Lionel who is the heir and loves Lady Brenda, the butler who is mentioned in the will, and a cousin who seems to have nothing to gain. Bentley exposes the cousin's plan to masquerade as the demon, kill the earl, and frame Lionel in order to inherit the title himself. |
| Genre: |
Detective-mystery |
| Characters: |
Lady Brenda (Earl's Wife, Introduction) The Earl Of Crackenthorpe (villain, Introduction) |
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