Roy Thomas and Craig Delich agree this cover was done by Bill Everett. Bill Everett Archives #2, Blake Bell editor, lists this cover as being H. G. Peter, which was the previous credit given.
Keith Chandler : Comparing this with the covers of the following two issues, art could well be by editor Stephen Douglas, who displayed a knack for copying the style of both Everett and Peter.
Continued next issue.
In the splash panel the name 'Bob Blake' appears in small letters above the word 'Hydroman', but the title of the strip is clear.
pantomime; wordless story
This was the topper to the Don Dixon Sunday. It ceased publication on 1941-03-06.
The topper to this Sunday page was Tad of the Tanbark.
Panels are extensively reshaped and rearranged.
Pfeufer drew the strip between December 1936 and its final appearance in January 1942. Its newspaper appearances were titled 'Gordon Fife and the Boy King', but merely 'Gordon Fife' in this issue.
A hero clearly based on H. C. 'Sapper' McNeile's Captain Hugh 'Bulldog' Drummond, who at the time was appearing in a popular series of films made by Paramount Pictures.