Leading Comics #1 Values

Publisher: DC, 1941

About Leading Comics #1

Origin and first appearance of the Seven Soldiers of Victory. Second appearance of Green Arrow. First Vigilante and Green Arrow cover. Creig Flessel, George Papp, and Mort Meskin art.

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COVER DETAILS

Characters: Seven Soldiers of Victory [Vigilante; Green Arrow; Star-Spangled Kid; Shining Knight; Speedy; Crimson Avenger]

Pencils: Mort Meskin

Inks: Mort Meskin

Letters: typeset

STORY DETAILS

(10 Stories)

Title: Blueprint for Crime [Chapter 1]

Characters: Seven Soldiers of Victory [Crimson Avenger [Lee Travis]; Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]; Star-Spangled Kid [Sylvester Pemberton]; Stripesy [Pat Dugan]; Shining Knight [Sir Justin]; Speedy [Roy Harper]; Vigilante [Greg Sanders]]; The Hand (villain); Dummy (villain); Red Dragon (villain); Big Caesar (villain); Professor Merlin (villain); Needle (villain)

Synopsis: The nefarious Hand, believing that he has only one month to live, organizes a group of master criminals, the "fingers" of his hand, to commit crimes, and challenges a newly organized band of heroes to the greatest criminal chase the world has ever seen.

Pages: 5.000

Script: Mort Weisinger

Pencils: Mort Meskin

Inks: Mort Meskin

Notes: Art credits and synopsis from Craig Delich.

Title: [Chapter 2] Death Valley!

Characters: Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]; Speedy [Roy Harper]; Cactus Mike; Professor Merlin (villain); The Hand (villain); Needle (villain, cameo)

Synopsis: Green Arrow and Speedy head to Death Valley, California to stop Professor Merlin from stealing gold stockpiled by an old prospector.

Pages: 9.000

Script: Mort Weisinger

Pencils: George Papp [as Geo. Papp] (signed)

Inks: George Papp [as Geo. Papp] (signed)

Notes: Synopsis added by Craig Delich.

Title: Chapter 3: Peril in Panama

Characters: The Star-Spangled Kid [Sylvester Pemberton]; Stripesy [Pat Dugan]; Mrs. Pemberton; Claude Brighton; The Needle (villain); The Hand (villain); Big Caesar (villain)

Synopsis: The Kid and Stripesy head for the Panama Canal Zone to prevent the Needle from stealing a ray-gun weapon from its inventor.

Pages: 9.000

Script: Jerry Siegel (signed)

Pencils: Hal Sherman (signed)

Inks: Hal Sherman (signed)

Notes: The chapter title may have been intended to be "Blueprint for Banditry," as those words are in bold in the intro paragraph. The story title used here comes from the Archives reprint. Synopsis added by Craig Delich.

Title: [Chapter 4] Blackout Over Broadway

Characters: The Crimson Avenger [Lee Travis]; Wing; Big Caesar (villain); The Hand (villain); Red Dragon (villain, cameo)

Synopsis: The Crimson and Wing must prevent Big Ceasar from carrying out mass robberies in Times Square under the cover of darkness.

Pages: 9.000

Script: Jack Lehti (signed)

Pencils: Jack Lehti (signed)

Inks: Jack Lehti (signed)

Notes: Writer credit and synopsis from Craig Delich.

Title: Chapter 5: The Red Dragon

Characters: The Shining Knight [Sir Justin]; Winged Victory; Chief Wamona (death); Red Dragon (villain); Brom (villain); The Hand (villain); Dummy (villain, cameo)

Synopsis: The Shining Knight travels to the Valley of Wamona to prevent the Red Dragon from stealing a large supply of pitchblend (radium) from the local Indians living there.

Pages: 9.000

Script: Mort Weisinger ?

Pencils: Creig Flessel

Inks: Creig Flessel

Notes: Synopsis added by Craig Delich.

Title: [Chapter 6] The Stone People

Characters: The Vigilante [Greg Sanders]; Billy Gunn; The Dummy (villain); The Hand (villain)

Synopsis: The Western Waddy travels to the glamor and glitz of Hollywood to foil the evil plan of the Dummy to kidnap some important people, pretend to turn them to stone, then try to extort money from people before "restoring" them back to life.

Pages: 9.000

Script: Mort Weisinger

Pencils: Mort Meskin [as Mort Morton Jr.] (signed)

Inks: Mort Meskin [as Mort Morton Jr.] (signed)

Notes: Synopsis added by Craig Delich.

Title: Blueprint for Crime, Chapter 7

Characters: Seven Soldiers of Victory:[Crimson Avenger [Lee Travis]; Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]; Star-Spangled Kid [Sylvester Pemberton]; Stripesy [Pat Dugan]; Shining Knight [Sir Justin]; Speedy [Roy Harper]; Vigilante [Greg Sanders]; The Hand (villain, death)

Synopsis: Seeing that his plot has failed against the Seven Soldiers of Victory, the Hand decides to take them all on at his own home. But when he hears from the doctor that his medical condition can be cured and that he won't die, the Hand's vanity gets the better of him and he decides to fight anyway.

Pages: 5.000

Script: Mort Weisinger

Pencils: Mort Meskin

Inks: Mort Meskin

Notes: The Hand returns as The Iron Hand in Justice League of America (DC, 1960 series) #100. Art credits and synopsis from Craig Delich.

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CGC Census Report*

Grade	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	3	1	3	1	1	2	2	4	7	2	2	4	5	3	3	1	3	1	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	52
Qualified	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4
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
Restored	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	4	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	13
Total	3	2	4	1	1	2	2	7	8	7	2	4	6	4	3	3	3	2	3	0	2	0	0	0	0	69

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