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COVER DETAILS
Title:
Death is the Referee!
Characters:
Daredevil [Bart Hill]; Tonia Saunders; Hans Meyer
Pencils:
Charles Biro [as Biro] (signed)
Inks:
Charles Biro [as Biro] (signed)
STORY DETAILS
Title:
Death Is the Referee
Characters:
Daredevil [Bart Hill]; Tonia Saunders; Sue Smith (fiancee of Jeff); Jeff Hart; un-named yacht Captain; Hans Meyer (villain, dictator of the island, death)
Synopsis:
Sue and Jeff are taking their yacht to an uncharted island in the Pacific Ocean for their honeymoon and invite Bart and Tonia to accompany them. Unfortunately, when they are shipwrecked on the island, they face a cruel dictator who is out to kill all the men and make one the ladies his wife.
Pages:
13.000
Script:
Charles Biro [as Biro] (signed)
Pencils:
Charles Biro [as Biro] (signed)
Inks:
Charles Biro [as Biro] (signed)
Notes:
Story title taken from the cover. Story inspired by "The Most Dangerous Game".
The last panels gives the title to next issue's story: "Dead Men Can Talk".
Title:
Pardons for Cash
Characters:
Daredevil [Bart Hill]; un-named prison guard; Captain Mellon (of the F.B.I.); Jonathan C. Shultz (villain, death); Sapone (villain)
Synopsis:
Racket king Shultz waits for the prison baseball team to take the field, with him keeping score, in order to make an ingenious prison break at just the right time.
Pages:
3.000
Script:
Dick Wood (signed)
Pencils:
Charles Biro (spot illustrations)
Inks:
Charles Biro (spot illustrations)
Letters:
typeset
Notes:
The last section of page 3 features the illustrated "Daredevil's Punch-of-the-Month," which spotlights "The Solar Plexus Punch Just Below the Ribs", describing how to effectively deliver this crippling blow.
Title:
The Claw In Captivity!!!
Characters:
The Claw (villain); Bill Hopkins; Jean Hopkins; Mrs. Hopkins (Jean's mother); Fu (villain, one of the Claw's agents)
Synopsis:
The Claw is captured and brought to New York City in chains, kept in a special holding area at the Central Park Zoo until a massive prison can be built to house him. However, the villain escapes and looks for Bill and Jean Hopkins to exact his revenge.
Synopsis:
Pat's old friend, Chester Wood, invites her to come out to his ranch near Glory Canyon, where he is in charge of building the Glory Dam. After she arrives, Woods advises her that unknown parties have been attempting to destroy the dam as it supplies vital electricity to vital defense industries.
Pages:
6.000
Script:
Charles Biro; Bob Wood
Pencils:
Frank Borth ?; Reed Crandall ?
Inks:
Frank Borth ?; Reed Crandall ?
Notes:
The Archives reprint lists Reed Crandall as artist, but the work resemebles that of Borth on Phantom Lady.
Oddity: Pat is shown alternately with and without her cape.
Title:
Fu Tong
Characters:
Nightro [Hugh Goddard]; Blackie (Goddard's dog); Fong (villain, introduction); Lee Tang (villain, introduction); un-named other gang members (villains, introduction for all)
Synopsis:
Reading about the loss of a fourteenth Navy pilot, Hugh Goddard realizes that the pilots were better pilots than that, and chooses to investigate. He discovers that the pilots were suckered into landing their planes near a decoy plane, where they were captured.
Pages:
5.000
Script:
Dick Wood
Pencils:
George Roussos [as Inky Roussos] (signed)
Inks:
George Roussos [as Inky Roussos] (signed)
Notes:
Script credit from Michael Gilbert.
Title:
Rossi the Racketeer
Characters:
The Bronze Terror [Jeff Dixon]; White Falcon; Rossi (villain, introduction, death); Butch (villain, introduction); Stella (villain, introduction); other un-named gang members (villains, introduction for all)
Synopsis:
Rossi and his gang come to the city of Redfield, where they set up a new atraction: an amusement center comprised of crooked gambling machines.
Pages:
6.000
Script:
Dick Briefer (signed)
Pencils:
Dick Briefer (signed)
Inks:
Dick Briefer (signed)
Title:
The Mystery Sub
Characters:
Dash Dillon; Carrie; Socko; Dean Roberts; President Franklin D. Roosevelt (cameo); un-named German U-Boat Commander (villain); other un-named Nazis (villains)
Synopsis:
Dash is told by the dean of the college that he must pass his German exam on Friday or be ineligible for the football team, just as a radio broadcast tells of the sinking of a U.S. ship by a German submarine. When Dash rounds up the crew of the sub, the President of the United Sates presents Dash with the Distinguished Service Cross.
Pages:
4.000
Script:
Edd Ashe
Pencils:
Edd Ashe (signed)
Inks:
Edd Ashe (signed)
Notes:
Script credit from Archive reprint.
Title:
The Glass Gargoyle
Characters:
Thirteen [Harold Higgins]; Officer Casey (Policeman); Arthur C. Yates (villain, explorer and lecturer, introduction); Compello (villain, introduction, death); Inky (villain)
Synopsis:
Higgins decides to go to the museum to see the famed Egyptian Buddha that has gruesome tradegies associated with it. While he's there, a gang of crooks enter and make off with the exhibit which contains a key to an Egyptian code.
Pages:
5.000
Script:
Dick Wood
Pencils:
Bernard Klein [as Hamilton Kaye] (signed)
Inks:
Bernard Klein [as Hamilton Kane] (signed)
Title:
The Submarine Signaller
Characters:
London [Marc Holmes]; Prime Minister Winston Churchill (cameo); Bland (villain, introduction); The Nazis (villains)
Synopsis:
A rather unique voyage occurs, the ship carrying a diplomat, a condemned criminal, an aspiring playright and a fading movie actress all on the trail of a ship sunk by a German U-Boat.
Synopsis:
Terry's contract is placed in the hands of his fighter manager's attorney, who informs the boxer that he is to report to Westchester to help with an "Aid For Britain" boxing exhibition.
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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
1
0
0
0
0
1
0
1
0
1
0
2
0
0
1
6
0
0
0
1
0
0
1
1
0
0
0
0
15
Qualified
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
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
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
Total
1
0
0
0
0
1
0
1
0
2
0
2
0
0
1
6
0
0
0
1
0
0
1
1
0
0
0
0
16
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