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COVER DETAILS

Characters: Steel Sterling; Black Jack

Pencils: Irv Novick [as Novick] (signed)

Inks: Irv Novick [as Novick] (signed)

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STORY DETAILS

Story #1 Story #2 Story #3 Story #4 Story #5 Story #6 Story #7 Story #8 (8 Stories)

Characters: Steel Sterling [John Sterling]; Clancy McGinty (Police); Looney

Synopsis: Clancy buys an old vase that transports him and his friends back to ancient Greece.

Pages: 14.000

Script: Robert Kanigher

Pencils: Irv Novick [as Novick] (signed)

Inks: Irv Novick [as Novick] (signed)

Notes: Kanigher includes the splash page in his book, How To Make Money Writing For Comics Magazines (Cambridge House, 1943). Previous indexer thought Joe Blair had written this story. Novick signature on final page.

Characters: Black Jack [Jack Jones]; Mary Stone (nurse); Mrs. Carter; Cyrus Weeks; Solitaire (secretary)

Synopsis: A nurse is accused of murdering Mrs. Carter for the two thousand dollars left in her will, but Black Jack proves he innocent. Later the same nurse is framed for another murder.

Pages: 11.000

Pencils: Al Camy [as Camy] (signed)

Inks: Al Camy [as Camy] (signed)

Characters: Wilbur Wilkin; Eddie; Father Wilkins; Clancy McGinty (Police); Mr Morris (store owner)

Synopsis: Wilbur starts at a new job as his father thinks he needs a sense of responsibility.

Pages: 7.000

Script: Joe Blair

Pencils: Lin Streeter

Inks: Lin Streeter

Characters: Captain Valor (Marine); Slim (Marine); Slam (Marine); Sergeant Hogan (Marine); Marta (spy); Nazis (villains)

Synopsis: The Germans know every move the supply ships make, and the leak is a woman in the refugee camp.

Pages: 7.000

Script: Joe Blair

Pencils: Warren King

Inks: Warren King

Notes: Same art as other signed stories on this feature.

Characters: Nevada Jones; Little Joe (sidekick); Bill Craven (outlaw)

Synopsis: After Bull Craven's capture, Nevada Jones' name is cleared and he can take off his mask for good.

Pages: 6.000

Pencils: Jim Phillips

Inks: Jim Phillips

Notes: last appearance Same art as in Phillips' signed Black Witch story in #27. Compare close-up faces in frontview.

Characters: Tim Shane (pilot); Tom Shane (pilot); Swen (pilot); Nazis (Villain)

Synopsis: The three escapees crashland in their observation balloon among Australian soldiers in Crete.

Pages: 6.000

Script: Joe Blair

Pencils: Ed Smalle (signed)

Inks: Ed Smalle (signed)

Characters: Dicky; Old Seer

Synopsis: Dicky fights the fire-breathing Medusa monster, but must get help from the old seer in the Magic Forest.

Pages: 6.000

Pencils: Lin Streeter [as Lin] (signed)

Inks: Lin Streeter [as Lin] (signed)

Characters: Zambini (magician); J.W. Squelch (proprietor); Husband

Synopsis: After his wife trips on the worn stairs and crashes through a rotten, neglected bannister and falls to her death, her husband intends to kill the proprietor responsible.

Pages: 5.000

Script: Harry Stein [as Stein] (signed)

Pencils: Jim Phillips [as Phillips] (signed)

Inks: Jim Phillips [as Phillips] (signed)

Notes: Originally script credited to Harry Shorten, but the signed Stein is credited as writer on this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who.

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