Silver Streak Comics #13

(August 1941)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1)

Captain Battle's Boys' Brigade / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Synopsis

Illustrated advertisement for Captain Battle's Boys' Brigade, with coupon, for readers to mail in with ten cents to join the brigade.

Reprints

• in Silver Streak Archives Featuring the Original Daredevil (Dark Horse, 2012 series) #2 (December 2012)

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover

[Enter Captain Battle, Jr.] (Table of Contents: 2)

Captain Battle / comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Script

Carl Formes (credited as C. Formès)

Pencils

Jack Binder (signed)

Inks

Jack Binder (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Captain Battle! Captain Battle! Where are you?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Captain Battle [Jonathan Battle]; Hale Battle; Dr. Goode; Dr. Goode's daughter; Priesthood of Moko (villains); Hans (villain); un-named Nazi sub commander (villain, death); the Nazis (villains)

Synopsis

Captain Battle rescues Hale from the Priesthood of Moko, who are in the process of sacrificing him to their god, then heads with his young charge to deal with a Nazi sub attacking a small town. They rescue the daughter of the Dr. Goode, who has been taken prisoner by the Germans because of his secret wound-healing formula. After she makes a costume for the young boy, patterned after the Captain's, they head out to save the good doctor.

Reprints

• in Silver Streak Archives Featuring the Original Daredevil (Dark Horse, 2012 series) #2 (December 2012)

Keywords

Dissolvo-Gun; Luceflyer

Indexer Notes

The last 1/3 of the last page of the story is a plug for the latest Silver Streak and Captain Battle Comics issues, plus a photo of Captain Battle making a public appearance in New York City and promotion for readers to join Captain Battle's Boys' Brigade.

The Adventure of the Laughing Hyena (Table of Contents: 3)

Silver Streak and Meteor, the Boy Speed-King / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

Don Rico (credited)

Pencils

Don Rico (credited)

Inks

Don Rico (credited)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

The Silver Streak [un-named taxi cab driver]; Meteor [Mickey O'Toole]; The Hyena ["Bull" Karson] (villain, introduction); the Hyena's gang [Joe; un-named others](villains)

Synopsis

The Streak and Meteor read with disgust about the lynchings of negro sharecroppers by the bloodthirsty Hyenas, and decide to do something about it.

Reprints

• in Silver Streak Archives Featuring the Original Daredevil (Dark Horse, 2012 series) #2 (December 2012)

Keywords

Souda (a village)

Indexer Notes

Mercury is renamed Meteor in this story. The last panel gives the title for the next story "Case of the Totem Pole".

[The Bomb Saboteurs] (Table of Contents: 4)

Cloud Curtis and His Golden Bullet / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Carl Formes (credited)

Pencils

Jack Binder (credited)

Inks

Jack Binder (credited)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

In the still of the night...

Genre

adventure; aviation

Characters

Cloud Curtis; "Crusher" McCoy; "Pop" Whistler; Slouchy (villain); two un-named gang members (villains, both die)

Synopsis

Cloud catches a couple of thugs trying to blow up his aircraft hanger, and discover that others in their group plan to blow up International Aeroplane and a U.S. battleship. So, he sets out in the Golden Bullet to stop those schemes.

Reprints

• in Silver Streak Archives Featuring the Original Daredevil (Dark Horse, 2012 series) #2 (December 2012)

Keywords

The Golden Bullet airplane

Quick Revenge, or, You Can't Do That To My Buddy (Table of Contents: 5)

Captain Battle / text story / 3 pages (report information)

Script

Otto Binder ?

Pencils

Jack Binder (spot illustrations)

Inks

Jack Binder (spot illustrations)

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Genre

superhero

Characters

Captain Battle [Jonathan Battle]; Hale Battle; un-named bouncer (villain); un-named beer-dive owner (villain)

Synopsis

Captain Battle learns of a crooked roulette wheel at work, conning military men out of their hard earned money, so he and Hale take action by busting up the wheel and rounding up those responsible.

Reprints

• in Silver Streak Archives Featuring the Original Daredevil (Dark Horse, 2012 series) #2 (December 2012)

[The Treasure Map] (Table of Contents: 6)

The Pirate Prince / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Dick Briefer (credited as Richard Norman)

Pencils

Dick Briefer (credited as Richard Norman)

Inks

Dick Briefer (credited as Richard Norman)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Prince is involved in a tale of mystery and horror...

Genre

adventure; historical

Characters

The Pirate Prince

Synopsis

The Prince fishes a bottle out of the ocean, which contains an incomplete treasure map. Accidentally knocked overboard, he then dreams of seeing the treasure, landing on an island and meeting someone who tells him that he will get clues to the missing pieces of the map from weird beings on the island.

Reprints

• in Silver Streak Archives Featuring the Original Daredevil (Dark Horse, 2012 series) #2 (December 2012)

Boys and Girls, Win $100 in Cash Prizes (Table of Contents: 7)

Silver Streak contest / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Don Rico (cover); ?

Inks

Don Rico (cover); ?

Colors

?

Letters

?; most typeset

Characters

Captain Battle [Jonathan Battle] (inset); The Silver Streak [unknown taxi cab driver] (inset)

Synopsis

Illustrated promotion from the publisher, with Silver Streak #12 cover shown, for a new contest, offering a $50 1st Prize, $10 2nd Prize, five $5 3rd Prizes, and twenty-five $1 4th Prizes. First, readers are asked to answer this question in 100 words or less: "Which feature do you like best in Silver Streak Comics and why?". Secondly, also in 100 words or less, readers are asked, "How I get all my friends to buy Silver Streak Comics". All letters were to be postmarked by August 9, 1941.

Reprints

• in Silver Streak Archives Featuring the Original Daredevil (Dark Horse, 2012 series) #2 (December 2012)

[The Mad Elephant] (Table of Contents: 8)

Lance Hale / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Fred Guardineer (credited)

Pencils

Fred Guardineer (credited)

Inks

Fred Guardineer (credited)

Colors

?

Letters

Fred Guardineer ?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Driven mad with pain...

Genre

adventure; jungle

Characters

Lance Hale; un-named Chief of Meru tribe; Nada (Meru Chief's daughter)

Synopsis

Driven mad with pain, a wounded African elephant runs rampant through the Meru village, and inhabitants contact Lance, hoping he could stop the destructive beast. In the process of doing so, Lance saves the daughter of the Meru chief several times.

Reprints

• in Silver Streak Archives Featuring the Original Daredevil (Dark Horse, 2012 series) #2 (December 2012)

Indexer Notes

Letterer credit added by Craig Delich 2013-2-21. The last panel tells of Lance Hale's next battle, this time against a man-eating crocodile.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 9)

Dickie Dean, the Boy Inventor / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Dick Wood (signed as Dick Hamilton)

Pencils

Fred Schwab ?

Inks

Fred Schwab ?

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

He's done it again!

Genre

adventure

Characters

Dickie Dean; Zip Todd; Professor Blankhorne (villain, introduction, death); C.B. Wolf (villain, death)

Synopsis

Dickie invents a photo-lightning machine that can generate a bolt of lightning that can hit any spot within a radius of miles. He takes it in to the offices of Kent Burk and Endicott to get it patented, not realizing an imposter is on hand to steal the invention and get it to Professor Blankhorne.

Reprints

• in Silver Streak Archives Featuring the Original Daredevil (Dark Horse, 2012 series) #2 (December 2012)

Keywords

Photo-lightning Machine; Sky Bug

[Origin of Thun-Dohr] (Table of Contents: 10)

Thun-Dohr / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

? [as Jeff Remon] (signed)

Pencils

? [as Jeff Remon] (signed)

Inks

? [as Jeff Remon] (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

In the farthest depths of unknown Tibet...

Genre

superhero

Characters

Thun-Dohr (introduction, origin); un-named parents of Thun-Dohr (both die); The Dalai Lama; Dr. Benson Bell (death); Sin Khaii (villain, introduction); Clavell (Professor Bell's assistant, made evil by the Black Madness)

Synopsis

At a monastary in ancient Tibet, a young American Lama, now called Thun-Dohr, is summoned by the Dalai Lama and told the story of a white search party that met its fate looking for Lha-I-Ha......there was one survivor, a young baby, brought to the Dalai Lama. This young man is told he was then trained, in mind and body, in the arts of the Gom-pa, and that, now, he must undergo the tests of the Potala. He passes and is given a bracelet of gold that connects the spirits of himself and the Dalai Lama, who will fight evil together....in spirit.

Reprints

• in Silver Streak Archives Featuring the Original Daredevil (Dark Horse, 2012 series) #2 (December 2012)

Keywords

Monastary of Lha-I-Ha; Pandora's Box; the Black Madness

Indexer Notes

Jeff Remon is a by-line for the strip only.

The Riddle of the Missing Bullet! (Table of Contents: 11)

Presto Martin, Quick Change Detective! / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Bob Wood (signed)

Pencils

Bob Wood (signed)

Inks

Bob Wood (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

adventure; detective-mystery

Characters

Presto Martin [also as Mr. Billups]; Sergeant Murphy; Toni Billups; Mr. Billups (death); Battleship LeBlanc (boxer); Jackson (villain); un-named cook (villain)

Synopsis

Presto runs into ex-movie star and acquaintance, Toni Billups, and finds out that her father has been having dreams in which he is going to be murdered. Later, he is informed at a boxing match that Toni's father has indeed been killed and Presto is off to discover the killer's identity.

Reprints

• in Silver Streak Archives Featuring the Original Daredevil (Dark Horse, 2012 series) #2 (December 2012)

Indexer Notes

There is a blurb at the bottom of the last page giving the title of next issue's adventure, "The Case of the Baseball Murders".

The Affair of the Scarlet Skull (Table of Contents: 12)

Daredevil / comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Script

Don Rico (credited)

Pencils

Don Rico (credited)

Inks

Don Rico (credited)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Daredevil [Bart Hill] [also as The Scarlet Skull]; Tonia Saunders (Bart's fiancee); The Scarlet Skull (villain, introduction); Eric Sinhart (villain)

Synopsis

Daredevil discovers that a Nazi bigwig is behind a plot to use the Scarlet Skull to kidnap the President of the United States, while a member of the gang disguises himself as the President in order to undermine U.S. war efforts.

Reprints

• in Silver Streak Archives Featuring the Original Daredevil (Dark Horse, 2012 series) #2 (December 2012)

Indexer Notes

Policeman at the Police Station is shown reading a copy of Silver Streak Comics. The last panel reveals the next story title: "Enter the Parson".

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 13)

Daredevil / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Charles Biro

Inks

Charles Biro

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Daredevil [Bart Hill]; The Claw; Nightro [Hugh Goddard]; London [Marc Holmes]; Whirlwind [Terry Turner]; Bronze Terror [Jeff Dixon]; The Pioneer, Champion of America

Synopsis

Illustrated promotional advertisement for Daredevil Comics #2, picturing the cover, and some of the interior features.

Reprints

• in Silver Streak Archives Featuring the Original Daredevil (Dark Horse, 2012 series) #2 (December 2012)

Indexer Notes

Inside back cover

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 14)

Captain Battle / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Genre

superhero

Characters

Captain Battle [Jonathan Battle]

Synopsis

Illustrated promotional advertisement for the first issue of Captain Battle Comics, including the titles of the three Captain Battle stories with synopses.

Reprints

• in Silver Streak Archives Featuring the Original Daredevil (Dark Horse, 2012 series) #2 (December 2012)

Indexer Notes

Back cover