Pep Comics #13

(March 1941)

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

Shield / comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Script:

Harry Shorten (signed)

Pencils:

Irv Novick (signed)

Inks:

Irv Novick (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Shield [Joe Higgins]; Dusty; The Vulture (villain)

[The Sleeping Princess] (Table of Contents: 2)

Danny In Wonderland / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script:

Harry Shorten

Pencils:

Lin Streeter

Inks:

Lin Streeter

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

fantasy-supernatural

Characters:

Danny ; The Queen of Fairies (guest-star); A witch (villain, introduction, death?); A princess (introduction)

Reprints:

• in Super-Dooper Comics (Able Manufacturing, 1946 series) #4 ([1946])

[Terror in the Tenements] (Table of Contents: 3)

Comet / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script:

Joe Blair

Pencils:

Lin Streeter

Inks:

Lin Streeter

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Comet [John Dickering]; Thelma Gordon (newspaperwoman); Sam Harvey (villain, introduction)

Synopsis:

Comet still a fugitive

[Arson, Incorporated] (Table of Contents: 4)

Fireball / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

Harry Lucey ?

Inks:

Harry Lucey ?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

The Fireball [Ted Tyler] ; John Haines (villain, introduction); Arson, Inc. (villain, introduction)

Indexer Notes

Originally credited to Paul Reinman, but none of his very special wedge shaped heads with eyes far apart and out of line are present. Compare with his signed story in #19. The faces here, with more prominent cheekbones point to Lucey. Art looks like his credited story Madam Satan in #16, and signed story in Crime Does Not Pay #22.
He is credited to this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who.

[The Greek / Italian Restaurant] (Table of Contents: 5)

Sergeant Boyle / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script:

Charles Biro?

Pencils:

Charles Biro (signed)

Inks:

Charles Biro (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

war

Characters:

Sergeant Boyle; The Fascists (villains); Capt. Twerp (guest-star)

[The Baseball Blackout] (Table of Contents: 6)

Midshipman / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script:

Joe Blair

Pencils:

Mort Meskin (signed)

Inks:

Mort Meskin (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Characters:

Lee Sampson (Midshipman); Mugsy (villain, introduction); Leo (villain, introduction); the Boss (villain, introduction)

[Introducing Lucky Larson] (Table of Contents: 7)

Lucky Larson / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

Ed Smalle

Inks:

Ed Smalle

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

aviation

Characters:

Lucky Larson (introduction); Mr. Garson (introduction); Maxine Garson (introduction); A gang of German spies (villains, introductions, mostly deaths)

Indexer Notes

Art similar to Smalle's other signed aviation features, "Wings Johnson of the Air Patrol" in Top-Notch Comics, and "War Eagles" in Zip Comics.

Cherry Creek (Table of Contents: 8)

text story / 1 page (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset

Genre:

non-fiction

[Match with Tornado Thompson] (Table of Contents: 9)

Kayo Ward / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script:

Harry Shorten

Pencils:

Bob Wood (signed)

Inks:

Bob Wood (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

sports

Characters:

Kayo Ward [Eddie Ward]; Tornado Thompson (villain, introduction); Dice Brady (villain, introduction)

Synopsis:

Kayo Ward becomes world's champion (what happened to Joe Louis?)

The Case of the Whistling Doom (Table of Contents: 10)

Bentley of Scotland Yard / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script:

Joe Blair

Pencils:

Sam Cooper (signed)

Inks:

Sam Cooper (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

detective-mystery

Characters:

Inspector Bentley; Lord Coverley (villain, introduction); Jeffrey Wyndham (introduction, death); Ernest Yardley (introduction); Sir Cedric Coverley (introduction); Pamela Coverley (introduction); James True (introduction)