(February 1943)

Lev Gleason, 1941 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.10 USD
Pages
68
Indicia Frequency
Bi-monthly
On-sale Date
1942-11-15
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Comic House Inc.
Brand
Published by Comic House Inc.
Editing
Charles Biro (editor); Bob Wood

Issue Notes

The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1943, New Series, Vol. 38, No. 1.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Daredevil / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Charles Biro (signed as Biro)
Inks
Charles Biro (signed as Biro)
Colors
?
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Hey, wait up fer me!
Genre
superhero
Characters
Daredevil [Bart Hill]; Scarecrow; Pee Wee; Meatball; Jock Herendeen
Keywords
sled; snow

[The Death of Meatball] (Table of Contents: 1)

Daredevil / comic story / 16 pages (report information)

Script
Charles Biro (signed)
Pencils
Charles Biro (signed)
Inks
Charles Biro (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
With our entire nation straining every effort to stem the Nazi tide, we find our...
Genre
superhero
Characters
Daredevil [Bart Hill]; Curly (first appearance, joins the Little Wise Guys); Meatball (death); Tyglon and the Steamrollers (first appearance, villains)
Synopsis
Meatball dies in this story.

[The Chinese Circus Caper] (Table of Contents: 2)

Sniffer / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script
Dick Wood
Pencils
Carl Hubbell (signed as Hubbell)
Inks
Carl Hubbell (signed as Hubbell)
Colors
?
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
What happens when twelve of gangdom's deadliest thugs bump into a tidy hunk of the Jap army?
Genre
war; adventure
Characters
Sniffer; Beero (first appearance); Japanese (villains)
Keywords
World War II

[The Big Blaze of Arson Larson] (Table of Contents: 3)

Scoop Scuttle / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script
Basil Wolverton (signed as Basil 'Warpaint' Wolverton)
Pencils
Basil Wolverton (signed as Basil 'Warpaint' Wolverton)
Inks
Basil Wolverton (signed as Basil 'Warpaint' Wolverton)
Colors
?
Letters
Basil Wolverton

Characters
Scoop Scuttle; Arson Larson (first appearance, villain, a fire fiend)

13 and Jinx Smack the Saboteur (Table of Contents: 4)

13 and Jinx / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script
Dick Wood
Pencils
Alan Mandel (signed as Mandel)
Inks
Dan Barry (signed as Barry)
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
adventure
Characters
Thirteen [Harold Higgins]; Jinx [Darrel Creig]; Crusher Coll (first appearance, villain, death); a Nazi agent (first appearance, villain, death)

Sudden Death (Table of Contents: 5)

Crimebuster / text story / 2.33 pages (report information)

Script
?
Letters
typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text
It was two a.m. when officer Terry Colt left the police precinct and casually...
Genre
superhero; crime
Characters
Crimebuster [Chuck Chandler]; Terry Colt; Squeeks (monkey)

[Cyrus, the Madman's Son] (Table of Contents: 6)

Dickie Dean / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script
Dick Wood
Pencils
Bart Tumey
Inks
Bart Tumey
Colors
?
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Insanity is a strange and little understood disease, but terrifying in its effect.
Characters
Dickie Dean; Crazy Cyrus (first appearance); Mr. Burns (first appearance, villain)

[The Prisoner-King: Part 1] (Table of Contents: 7)

Pirate Prince / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script
Dick Briefer (signed)
Pencils
Dick Briefer (signed)
Inks
Dick Briefer (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
In the grizzly old castle dungeon are scores of prisoners...
Genre
adventure
Characters
Pirate Prince; King Andrew (first appearance); The Master (first appearance, villain)

[The Battle of Rain Island] (Table of Contents: 8)

Claw / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script
Bob Wood
Pencils
Bob Wood
Inks
Bob Wood
Colors
?
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Below are pictured the world's four worst villains--mad, ruthless and...
Characters
The Ghost [Brad Hendricks]; Perkins (first appearance, death); Claw (villain)
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. ["Hey, wait up fer me!"]
    Daredevil
  2. 1. [The Death of Meatball]
    Daredevil
  3. 2. [The Chinese Circus Caper]
    Sniffer
  4. 3. [The Big Blaze of Arson Larson]
    Scoop Scuttle
  5. 4. 13 and Jinx Smack the Saboteur
    13 and Jinx
  6. 5. Sudden Death
    Crimebuster
  7. 6. [Cyrus, the Madman's Son]
    Dickie Dean
  8. 7. [The Prisoner-King: Part 1]
    Pirate Prince
  9. 8. [The Battle of Rain Island]
    Claw
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Keith Chandler
  • Gregory Fischer
  • Del Gruber
  • Michael Hoskin
  • Richard Thomson