(July 1941)
Lev Gleason,
1939 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1941-05-15
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- New Friday Publications Inc.
- Editing
- Lev Gleason (editor)
Issue 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. 3.
[no title indexed]
Daredevil / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Daredevil [Bart Hill]; Captain Battle [Jonathan Hale] (inset); Silver Streak [unknown taxi cab driver] (inset)
- Reprints
in 
Join Captain Battle's Boys' Brigade!
Captain Battle's Boys' Brigade / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
- Characters
- Captain Battle [Jonathan Battle]
- Synopsis
- Illustrated promotional advertisement for Captain Battle's Boys' Brigade, the Defenders of American Democracy! Readers are to mail in the attached Boy's Brigade coupon with 10 cents, and they will receive the membership card and official badge in the mail.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover.
Bargains in Murder
Daredevil / comic story / 9 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Daredevil [Bart Hill]; Tonia Saunders (Bart's fiancee); District Attorney Wayne (death); Judge Harkins (villain); The Murder Syndicate [Porky Porter (chief); Chopper Lane (the executioner); Mysteriouis Figure in Black] (villains, introduction for all); Slug (villain); Eric Sinhart ? (villain)
- Synopsis
- The Murder Syndicate gets the job of bumping off the district attorney and succeeds. However, Bart spots the Chopper and eventually rounds him up as well as the chief, Porky Porter, as Daredevil. But a mysterious figure in black and his fellow felons show up at the courtroom, tosses in tear gas, and rescues the two criminals, capturing Daredevil in the process.
- Reprints
in Indexer Notes
The last panel of the story tells of Daredevil's next foe, the Spymaster (shown in next to last panel of this story?), and gives the titles of next issue's story: "The Affair of the Scarlet Skull."
The Treasure Hunters
Dickie Dean The Boy Inventor / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Dickie Dean; Zip Todd; Tod (Zip's uncle); Cranky Andy (villain, death); Andy's gang (villains)
- Synopsis
- Dickie and Zip are on summer vacation from school and decide to visit Zip's fisherman Uncle Tod, who can't understand why the fish have been dying......fish he needs to catch for a living. Dickie turns the Sky-Sub into a walking submarine, and he and Zip go underwater to investigate. They find the reason why the fish are dying and spot the mast of an old treasure ship......a ship that one of Uncle Tod's rivals is interested in.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- The Sky-Bug (aka the Walking Submarine)
Indexer Notes
Writer credit added by Craig Delich 2013-2-4. The last 1/3 of page 8 is devoted to Dickie Dean's Invention Corner, and features the invention of Jerry Young of Urbana, Illinois: a home-made picture projector.
The Race against Death --
Silver Streak and Mercury, the Boy Speed King / comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- Rex Richards ?
- Pencils
- Rex Richards (signed)
- Inks
- Rex Richards (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Silver Streak [an unknown taxi cab driver]; Mercury; The Invaders (villains, many die)
- Synopsis
- The Streak and Mercury head to China to help save the imperiled village of San Cho from the enemy invaders.
- Reprints
[no title indexed]
Can You Solve These? / activity / 1 page
- Characters
- Joe; Leo; Eddy
- Synopsis
- Various illustrated activities for the readers to solve include a animal cross-word puzzle, the dwarf's problem, and two brain teasers. The solution to all of these is provided.
- Reprints
[no title indexed]
Can You Answer These? / activity / 1 page
- Synopsis
- Readers are asked to take a Quick Quiz of six questions, plus find the answers to nine illustrated posers, such as: what makes a baseball curve, what state has more than 10,000 lakes, and so on. Answers are provided.
- Reprints
[The Forbidden Valley of Ka-Zor]
Lance Hale / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Fred Guardineer (signed)
- Pencils
- Fred Guardineer (signed)
- Inks
- Fred Guardineer (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Fred Guardineer ?
- Genre
- adventure; jungle
- Characters
- Lance Hale; un-named cave-man and his family
- Synopsis
- Lance decides to explore the forbidden Valley of Ka-Zor, surrounded on all sides by steep cliffs, and never explored by man. There he meets a cave-man and his family, saving them from various prehistoric creatures.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Letterer credit added by Craig Delich 2013-2-4.
[no title indexed]
Chubby Chump / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- David B. Icove [as D. B. Icove] (signed)
- Pencils
- David B. Icove [as D. B. Icove] (signed)
- Inks
- David B. Icove [as D. B. Icove] (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Oh boy, what a sock!
- Genre
- humor; sports
- Characters
- Chubby Chump; un-named umpire
- Synopsis
- In a baseball game, with the manager threatening to trade him to another team, Chubby hits a long ball and rounds all the bases, sliding into home for an apparent home run. That is, until the ump tells him that he had yelled foul ball on the play!
- Reprints
[no title indexed]
Daredevil / promo (ad from the publisher) / 2 pages
- Pencils
- Charles Biro; various
- Inks
- Charles Biro; various
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?; most typeset
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Daredevil [Bart Hill]; The Claw; Nightro [Hugh Goddard]; London [Marc Holmes]; The Whirlwind [Terry Turner]; The Pioneer; The Bronze Terror [Jeff Dixon]
- Synopsis
- Illustrated publisher promotional advertisement for Daredevil Comics #2, with cover reproduced, on sale June 20, 1941, and featuring twelve smash features (some illustrated w/text blurbs).
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
The centerfold of this issue.
[Introducing Hale Battle]
Captain Battle / comic story / 9 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Captain Battle [Jonathan Hale]; Hale Battle [formerly Nathan Hale; later Captain Battle Jr.] (introduction); The Black Dragon (villain); Deaglo Birdmen [Major Ling Fu] (villains, all reform); the Thibetan Hoods (villains)
- Synopsis
- Captain Battle works feverishly in his lab, trying to turn the bewitched birdmen of the Black Dragon back into human beings. He succeeds with one of them, Major Ling Fu, who agrees to help the Captain against his foes, and together, they fly to the Dragon's Castle, and succeed in freeing the other birdmen from their bewitching. He discovers that one of the Deaglos is a young boy named Nathan Hale, who helps Battle fight the Thibetan Hoods, who capture young Hale and attempt to sacrifice him to their god Moko.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- Curvos-copette; De-witcher Gun; Luce Flyer
Indexer Notes
Continued in the next issue.
Boomerang! or The Bandit's Thwarted Revenge: Part 5
The Silver Scout and His Horse Lucifer / text story / 3 pages
- Script
- Carl Formes (signed)
- Pencils
- Jack Binder (Illustrations)
- Inks
- Jack Binder (Illustrations)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- The Silver Scout [originally known as The Silver Ranger]; Lucifer (the Scout's horse); Rose (school teacher); Manuel's wife; un-named Sheriff; Rodrigo (villain, renegade bandit)
- Synopsis
- The Scout and Lucifer answer to the screams of a young school teacher from Roaring Falls, kidnapped and being abused by the renegade bandito from Mexico, Rodrigo, but is promptly captured by the outlaw's men. They head for the bandit's camp on the American side of the border before journeying on to Mexico the next day and get roaring drunk. During the night, Rose is freed by a woman whose son was killed by Rodrigo, who then frees the Scout, who rounds up the bandit and his cut-throats.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- Roaring Rapids
Indexer Notes
Oddity: The Scout's horse is white, yet the text calls him coal-black.
[The Tolarian Kidnappers]
Cloud Curtis and His Golden Bullet / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- adventure; aviation
- Characters
- Cloud Curtis; Lem Anderson; "Crusher" McCoy; "Pop" Whistler; Mike (news reporter); Co-ordinator of Defense [Kutsden]; Tolarians (villains)
- Synopsis
- Cloud's friend, Lem, has invented a new type of bomb and Cloud agrees to test it, and if it is worthy, he'll talk to the Army about it. Before he can take off in the Golden Bullet, a news reporter informs Cloud that the U.S. Defense Co-ordinator has been kidnapped by the Tolarians, and Cloud is the only one to get him back safely without anyone being the wiser.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- Golden Bullet
[Captain Blooze's Whaler Scam]
The Pirate Prince / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Dick Briefer (signed as Richard Norman)
- Pencils
- Dick Briefer (signed as Richard Norman)
- Inks
- Dick Briefer (signed as Richard Norman)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- adventure; war
- Characters
- The Pirate Prince; Captain Blooz (villain, slave-runner)
- Synopsis
- The Prince runs across Captain Blooz again, who tries to convince him that he no longer a slave-runner, but a whaler. But a fire aboard Blooz's ship reveals hidden slaves, and Blooz is captured and handed over to the slaves, who are returned to Africa by the Prince. As for Blooz, he becomes a slave to the ex-slaves.
- Reprints
[The Capture of Simon Girty]
Dan Dearborn / comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Walter Galli
- Pencils
- Bernard Klein (signed as Bernie)
- Inks
- Bernard Klein (signed as Bernie)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- historical
- Characters
- Dan Dearborn; Jerry; Scar-Face Dykes (villain, mentioned only); Simon Girty (villain); the Indians (villains)
- Synopsis
- Dan is saved from torture by the Indians by Sam Girty, leader of the dreaded "White Savages", but discovers that Jerry has followed Dan and has been nabbed by Sam. He is able to save the boy and turn the tables on Girty's "White Savages" and they are captured.....but Sam somehow escapes.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Continued from last issue. Writer/artist credits for Bernard Baily revised to Walter Galli, writer, and Bernard Klein, artist, by Craig Delich 2013-2-4.
The Unbelievable Case of the Lady Killer!!
Presto Martin Master of Quick Disguise / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Presto Bill Martin [also as the Lady Killer]; Miss Kent (Martin's secretary); Betty (actress); Jack Jenkins (sports cartoonist, Betty's boy friend); un-named Police Commissioner; The Lady Killer (villain, introduction)
- Synopsis
- Presto must face and defeat a disguised, cloaked adversary who has taken to killing, beating and brutally murdering beautiful young girls.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- Crane Club
Indexer Notes
The last panel reveals the name of next issue's story: "Riddle of the Missing Bullet".
Here's Captain Battle!
promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
- Characters
- Captain Battle [Jonathan Battle]
- Synopsis
- Illustrated promotional advertisement, assuring readers that the good Captain himself will visit their neighborhood soon. But, in the meantime, they are to go to their local newsstand and pick up the newest issue of Captain Battle Comics, on sale June 27, 1941. Also, readers are asked whether or not they have joined Captain Battle's Boys' Brigade
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Found on the inside back cover.
[no title indexed]
Daredevil / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Daredevil [Bart Hill]
- Synopsis
- Illustrated promotional advertisement asking readers to pick up the newest issue of Daredevil Comics (#2), on sale June 20, 1941.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Found on the back cover.
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
Daredevil -
1.
Join Captain Battle's Boys' Brigade!
Captain Battle's Boys' Brigade -
2.
Bargains in Murder
Daredevil -
3.
The Treasure Hunters
Dickie Dean The Boy Inventor -
4.
The Race against Death --
Silver Streak and Mercury, the Boy Speed King -
5.
[no title indexed]
Can You Solve These? -
6.
[no title indexed]
Can You Answer These? -
7.
[The Forbidden Valley of Ka-Zor]
Lance Hale -
8.
["Oh boy, what a sock!"]
Chubby Chump -
9.
[no title indexed]
Daredevil -
10.
[Introducing Hale Battle]
Captain Battle -
11.
Boomerang! or The Bandit's Thwarted Revenge: Part 5
The Silver Scout and His Horse Lucifer -
12.
[The Tolarian Kidnappers]
Cloud Curtis and His Golden Bullet -
13.
[Captain Blooze's Whaler Scam]
The Pirate Prince -
14.
[The Capture of Simon Girty]
Dan Dearborn -
15.
The Unbelievable Case of the Lady Killer!!
Presto Martin Master of Quick Disguise -
16.
Here's Captain Battle!
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17.
[no title indexed]
Daredevil
This issue was modified by, among others
- Peter Croome
- Craig Delich
- Del Gruber
- Michael Hoskin
- James Ludwig
- Mike Nielsen
- Tony R. Rose
- Richard Thomson
- Jim Van Dore
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