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Volume:
?
Price:
0.15
Pages:
80
Editing:
Sheldon Mayer (editor) , Julius Schwartz, Robert Kanigher (story editors)
Format: 
Color; 100 pages: #1-2; 92 pages #3-5; 84 pages: #6-10; 76 pages: #11-47; 68 pages 48 on; issues 1-10 have cardboard covers; all issues to 41 square-bound; glossy cover; newsprint interior

Table of Contents

  1. 1. Empress of the Sea Brigands
    Wonder Woman
  2. 2. [The Story of Professor Kendle]
    Johnny Peril
  3. 3. [Airfield Sabotage]
    Hop Harrigan
  4. 4. [I Think the Heat's Got Him!]
    Cotton-Top Katie
  5. 5. The Slow-Motion Crimes
    The Flash
  6. 6. Dead Center
  7. 7. The Case of the Withered Flower
    Green Lantern
This issue was most recently indexed by:
  • Bob Hughes
Issues in this series have been indexed by:
  • Gene Reed
  • Bob Hughes
  • James Ludwig
  • Jim Walls
  • Dwayne Best
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Issue Notes

This issue contains an ad for the Junior Justice Society of America. The Flash and G.L. panels are by Hasen, Wonder Woman panel is by Peter.

none (Table of Contents)

Wonder Woman; Flash; Green Lantern / cover / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Pencils:
Irwin Hasen; Harry G. Peter
Inks:
Irwin Hasen; Harry G. Peter
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

Content Information

Genre:
superhero
Characters:
Green Lantern; Flash; Wonder Woman.

Indexer Notes

[Cover story notes are the same as the issue notes (see Issue Notes above). This may mean that one or both set of notes need editing as a result of our recent migration to having separate issue and cover notes.]


Empress of the Sea Brigands (Table of Contents)

Wonder Woman / story / 13 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
Robert Kanigher
Pencils:
Harry G. Peter
Inks:
Harry G. Peter
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

Content Information

Genre:
superhero
Characters:
Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]; Etta Candy; the Holliday Girls; Hard Candy; Judy MacGregor; Mark Holcombe (D); Gary Banks; Paula von Gunther; Randy Holcombe (villain); Mohammed Abdulla (villain); Achmet (villain).
Synopsis:
The murder of a neighboring ranch owner of Hard Candy [Etta's father] leads to the arrest of Judy MacGregor, who has a well-known hatred of all men. So Wonder Woman takes her back to 1777 to see if she can discover the basis for this intense hatred.

Indexer Notes

Writer credit by Craig Delich, updated 8/04. Some info and modified synopsis added by Craig Delich 9-6-09.


[The Story of Professor Kendle] (Table of Contents)

Johnny Peril / story / 13 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
Howard Purcell (signed)
Pencils:
Howard Purcell (signed)
Inks:
Howard Purcell (signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

Content Information

Genre:
fantasy
Characters:
Johnny Peril; Professor Kendle (villain, D).
Synopsis:
Johnny interviews a rocket scientist that has invented a spaceship that can travel to the Moon, He tells Johnny that he has dreamed that an alien forces him to fly to the Moon, and when the scientist and ship do disappear, the world raises money to effect a rescue. Johnny discovers, however, that the kidnapping is a hoax, but then something strange happens!

Indexer Notes

Much info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 9-6-09.


[Airfield Sabotage] (Table of Contents)

Hop Harrigan / story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
?
Pencils:
Howard Purcell
Inks:
Howard Purcell
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

Content Information

Genre:
aviation
Characters:
Hop Harrigan; Tank Tinker; Danny Lane; Riker (villain).

[I Think the Heat's Got Him!] (Table of Contents)

Cotton-Top Katie / story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
Harry Lampert (signed as Harrielle)
Pencils:
Harry Lampert (signed as Harrielle)
Inks:
Harry Lampert (signed as Harrielle)
Colors:
?
Letters:
Harry Lampert

Content Information

Genre:
teen
Characters:
Cotton-Top Katie; the Perfessor.

Indexer Notes

Letterer credit added by Craig Delich 9-6-09.


The Slow-Motion Crimes (Table of Contents)

The Flash / story / 12 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
Robert Kanigher
Pencils:
Carmine Infantino
Inks:
Frank Giacoia
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

Content Information

Genre:
superhero
Characters:
The Flash [Jay Garrick]; the Junior JSA; Joan Williams; Iris; Bob; the Turtle (villain).
Synopsis:
The Turtle returns to confound Flash, this time by combining fast and slow words as clues to the crimes he plans to commit. To top things off, the Scarlet Speedster is saved from death by a member of the JJSA!
Reprinted:
  • In Greatest Flash Stories Ever Told, The (DC, 1991 series) #nn.

Indexer Notes

Some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 9-6-09.


Dead Center (Table of Contents)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
Ted Udall (signed as Charles King)
Letters:
typeset

Content Information

Genre:
adventure

The Case of the Withered Flower (Table of Contents)

Green Lantern / story / 12 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
John Broome
Pencils:
Irwin Hasen
Inks:
John Belfi
Colors:
?
Letters:
Ed Wheelan

Content Information

Genre:
superhero
Characters:
Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; Doiby Dickles; Nick Blake; John Cashmere; Dick Cashmere; Solomon Grundy [Cyrus Gold](villain).
Synopsis:
Doiby's signal flare lures Green Lantern into a trap. After deciphering the clues, the Emerald Crusader discovers to his horror that Solomon Grundy has returned!

Indexer Notes

Credits by Craig Delich, updated 8/04. Doiby uses a green signal flare to summon the Green Lantern in this story. This is the last appearance of Grundy until the Silver Age in All-Star Squadron #3. Notes, some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 9-6-09.


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