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Silver Streak Comics #08 [Mar'41][paper+fiche]-68pg-c2c
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Issue: #8
Published: March 1941, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing:
Color: Full Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U.S. Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing
Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1941, New Series, Vol. 36, No. 1.

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Dickie Dean (inset) Pirate Prince (inset)

Comic Story (10 pages)	The Claw vs. Daredevil [Part 2]
Synopsis:	When Daredevil, as Bart Hill, learns that the President of the United States has imposed a new tax of 50% on people's incomes and that people are barred from their churches, he decides to take action. He has a doctor examine the President and discovers that the chief executive is in a state of coma, put there by the Claw.
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Un-named Police Commissioner

Cartoon (1 page)
Featuring:	Sport Shorts by Ernie Bulbnose
Synopsis:	Group of five stand-alone humorous sports cartoons.
Genre:	Humor Sports
Characters:	Sid Bucktooth "Battlin' Buzz" "Slug" Fest "Dizzy" Lumpo Hap Kluk Axel Skug Slim Zlam

Comic Story (5 pages)
Featuring:	The Pirate Prince
Synopsis:	The prince and his crew approach a slave ship flying a white flag. When that ship draws near, it suddenly opens fire and the prince's ship goes down. The crew are saved by a whale which deposits the crew aboard the slaver ship and a fight ensues.
Genre:	Historical
Characters:	The Pirate Prince

Activity (1 page)
Featuring:	Can You Solve These?
Synopsis:	Readers are asked to solve 5 different problems.

Comic Story (8 pages)
Synopsis:	Silver Streak is asked by the FBI to investigate reported spy activities at the Sterling Aircraft Plant. He discovers that one of the workers has a false eye camera in his head which he uses to photograph secrets and give them to "The General."
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Harmon (FBI Agent) Henry Smith (farmer) Eleene Smith (Henry's Wife) Jerry (policeman) Walter Chinwell (news Broadcaster) Steve Grogan [aka "The General"] (villain, Gang Lord) Jaxon (villain, Plant Worker) Sam (villain, Newsstand Dealer)

Comic Story (2 pages)	Cactus Gulch
Featuring:	Gully Gulliver
Synopsis:	When Gully hears that the Sheriff is heading out to look for "Killer" Pete, Gully and Rammy dedcide to find him first......with "electrifying" results.
Genre:	Humor
Characters:	"Gully" Gulliver Jed (Sheriff) Rammy (a Goat) "Killer" Pete (villain)

Comic Story (6 pages)	The Durmaleum Theft
Featuring:	Cloud Curtis
Synopsis:	Cloud and his pals must stop the evil Francor and his assistant from obtaining an important metal called Durmalem the Professor has invented that will revolutionize the airplane.
Genre:	Aviation
Characters:	Cloud Curtis Professor Lane "Crusher" McCoy "Pop" Whistler Enzo Francor (villain, Spy Agent) Mitzi (villain, Francor's Assistant)

Comic Story (4 pages)
Featuring:	Secret Agent X-101
Synopsis:	Bart is very concerned about the murder of U.S. agents guarding the Air Force's new bomb sight that allows a bomb to land squarely on its target from a height of 50,000 feet. His investigation leads right back to the head of the aircraft company charged with protecting the invention.
Genre:	Crime
Characters:	Secret Agent X-101 [Bart Benson] Pat White Mr. Hendrix (villain) Sandra Hendrix (villain) Hans (villain)

Comic Story (5 pages)
Featuring:	Lance Hale
Synopsis:	Lance comes upon a girl in the jungle that is threatened by a vicious leopard. After saving her, both head back to the M'Bongo River, where her father and brother were captured by savages.
Genre:	Jungle
Characters:	Lance Hale Ruth Un-named Father Of Ruth Un-named Brother Of Ruth Un-named Cannibal Chief (villain, Death)

Text Story (3 pages)	The Silver Ranger and His Wonder Horse, Lucifer (Episode 1)
Featuring:	The Silver Ranger
Synopsis:	The Ranger must locate the true murderer of Hank Brunner before the Sheriff and his posse lynch an innocent man.
Credits:	Letters: typeset
Genre:	Western-frontier
Characters:	The Silver Ranger (introduction) Lucifer (the Ranger's Horse) Hank Brunner (death) Joel Brandon Mary Brandon (Joel's Wife) Sheriff Belden Deputy Spider Jones (villain)

Comic Story (5 pages)	Molo's Reign of Terror
Featuring:	Presto Martin, Quick Change Artist
Synopsis:	Presto uses his skill of disguise in order to locate and stop a vicious killer of stage and screen personalities.
Genre:	Adventure
Characters:	Presto Martin [also As Molo's Twin Brother, Also As Don Lopez] (Captain Of Detectives, Origin Of His Name) Sergeant Murphy (policeman) Un-named District Attorney Dick Bradley (death) Kay Raye (actress, Death) Peter Byron (producer, Death) Lily Ponela (opera Star, Death) Bruce Canton (playwright, Death) Molo's Twice Brother [as Jeeves] (villain, Driver For Lopez) Molo (villain)

Cartoon (1 page)
Featuring:	Laffs
Synopsis:	Series of 8 different stand-alone cartoons.
Credits:	Letters: typeset
Genre:	Humor
Characters:	Wilbur

Comic Story (4 pages)	The Gunpowder Mission
Featuring:	Dan Dearborn, Freedom's Son
Synopsis:	Captain Dearborn is sent by George Washington to Fort Pitt to meet up with Major George Rogers Clark, then the pair will deliver much needed gun powder to Boonesboro, Kentucky.
Genre:	Historical
Characters:	Captain Dan Dearborn Major George Rogers Clark Jerry (Dan's Sidekick) Captain Neville (in Charge Of The Garrison At Ft. Pitt) Jed Swift (riverboat Pilot) Scarface Dykes (villain) Tuff Kendon (villain);

Comic Story (8 pages)	Professor Skinn Strikes Back
Featuring:	Dickie Dean, Boy Inventor
Synopsis:	Professor Skinn and Blubber break out of jail and kidnap Dickie's parents, and when he shows up to rescue them, the Professor attempts to use his new invention on them all.....an invention that can reduce humans to chemicals!
Genre:	Adventure
Characters:	Dickie Dean Mr. Dean Martha Dean Zip Todd Professor Skinn (villain) "Blubber" (villain) Radio Controlled Robots (villains)

Comic Story (1 page)
Featuring:	Rusty
Synopsis:	When Rusty discovers that today, the 10th, is his brother's birthday, he hurries to the newsstand to get the latest issue of Silver Streak Comics, which, after he reads it, will be his brother's present!
Genre:	Humor
Characters:	Rusty Un-named Mother Of Rusty Mr. Jones (newsstand Dealer) The Claw (image)

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