Characters:
Hercules (introduction, origin); Leo Nymia (villain, introduction, death); Nymia's gang [Scabroni (introduction); rest unnamed] (villains, introduction for all)
Synopsis:
Hercules suddenly appears on the streets of New York and promptly gets work as a vaudevillian strongman. When his agent is killed by the "lion of the underworld", Leo Nymia (playing on the Nemean Lion, one of the champion’s twelve labors), he kills Nymia and wipes out his gang.
Pages:
8.000
Script:
Joe Blair
Pencils:
Elmer Wexler [as El Wexler] (signed)
Inks:
Elmer Wexler [as El Wexler] (signed)
Title:
Battle with Shiek Tamah
Characters:
Gypsy Johnson (introduction); Sheik Tamah (introduction, villain)
Pages:
5.000
Pencils:
John Bulthuis (signed)
Inks:
John Bulthuis (signed)
Title:
Origin of the Fox
Characters:
The Fox [Paul Patton] (introduction, origin); Ruth Ransom (Daily Globe editor, introduction); unnamed Sheriff; The Night Riders (villains, introduction for all)
Synopsis:
A masked group of men have been terrorizing the countryside by whipping people to death, and The Fox intends to stop them in their tracks. When Ruth is kidnapped by the Night Riders, he is inspired to become the hero while listening to the lyrics of a tune singing about a fox.
Synopsis:
Short article about hunting coyotes while on motorcycles.
Pages:
0.500
Letters:
Typeset
Title:
The Origin of Ty-Gor
Characters:
Ty-Gor [Tyrone Gorman] (introduction, origin); Mr. and Mrs. Gorman (Ty-Gor's parents, introduction, both die); Malma (a tigress); The Gapousas (villains, introduction for all, one dies)
Synopsis:
To atone for the death of a tiger cub, a witch doctor must offer a human sacrifice, and this time it must be a white boy. Tyrone Gorman was offered as a living sacrifice to tigers in the jungles of Malay, but, instead, the tigress Malma raises him and continues his jungle adventures even though he is unaware that he is an heir to a fortune back home.
Pages:
6.000
Script:
Joe Blair
Pencils:
George Storm
Inks:
George Storm
Notes:
Originally credited Mort Meskin. Compared with his signed story in #6, this is not him, but George Storm. Compare also with Storm's story in Hangman #19, with long and lively inklines. He is credited on this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who.
Title:
The Isle of Right
Characters:
Doc Strong (introduction, origin); Alice Rayburn (atomic chemist, introduction); Professor Harrison (electrical engineer, introduction); Dr. Henry Davidge (introduction); Walter Parker (mechanical engineer, introduction); Edward Stuyvesant (cowardly traitorous geologist, introduction); Sampson Smith (Swedish cook, introduction); Gustave Ritter (villain, Mongol warlord, introduction)
Synopsis:
World War II has lasted to the year 2039 and is thus called the Hundred Year War. It has laid waste to civilizations, and much of humanity is reduced to a barbaric state and conquered by Mongol warlord Gustave Ritter. With a small band set out to rebuilding civilization and science in an underground city on the Isle of Right (an island in the Pacific that they settle), Doc Strong uses one of his inventions: a gun that solidifies shadows, to immobilize those that are attached or touching the shadows.
Synopsis:
Bring in Homicide Hogan dead or alive, or you loose your new police whistles.
Pages:
1.000
Pencils:
? [as Quincy] (signed)
Inks:
? [as Quincy] (signed)
Title:
The Blue Duke
Characters:
Loop Logan (American stunt flyer and ace, introduction); Clatra (Logan's Far-East Indian assistant, introduction); The Blue Duke [Lt. Villon] (villain, introduction))
Pages:
6.000
Script:
Joe Blair
Pencils:
Frank Volp
Inks:
Frank Volp
Title:
The Coming of the Green Falcon
Characters:
The Green Falcon (introduction, origin); Lady Marion (introduction); Richard the Lion-Hearted (introduction); Prince John (villain, introduction); Sir Boltyn (villain, introduction); the Saracens (villains, introduction for all)
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CGC Census Report*
Grade
NG
PG
CVR
0.5
1.0
1.5
1.8
2.0
2.5
3.0
3.5
4.0
4.5
5.0
5.5
6.0
6.5
7.0
7.5
8.0
8.5
9.0
9.2
9.4
9.6
9.8
9.9
10.0
Total
Universal
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
1
0
1
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
7
Qualified
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
Signature Series
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
CGCxJSA
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Restored
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Total
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
1
0
1
0
0
1
0
1
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
8
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