(November 1941)

Fox, 1941 Series
Price
0.10 USD
Pages
68
Indicia Frequency
bimonthly
On-sale Date
1941-09-03
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Fox Publications Inc.
Brand
A Fox Feature Comic FP
Editing
Victor Fox

Issue Notes

The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1941, New Series, Vol. 36, No. 4.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

The Eagle / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Roland Patenaude
Inks
Roland Patenaude
Colors
?
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
The Eagle and Buddy face the hardest tasks of their lives when they meet the Unholy Trio!
Genre
superhero; war
Characters
The Eagle [Captain Bill Powers]; Buddy
Reprints
Keywords
tank; World War II

[The Fifth Column of the Indians] (Table of Contents: 1)

The Eagle / comic story / 15 pages (report information)

Script
Louis Cazeneuve (credited as Lester Raye)
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
High in the hills of Arizona ancient drums beat a rhythm of death...
Genre
superhero
Characters
The Eagle [Captain Bill Powers]; Buddy; John Red-Dust (villain, introduction); Count Felix Burkweis (villain, introduction); Sgt. Caldwell; Lem; Sit-in-Mud; Sally Caldwell; Major Dunham
Synopsis
Arriving at Camp Ensenada to visit her brother, Sally learns that her brother was captured by Native Americans.
Keywords
Arizona; Camp Ensenada

Indexer Notes

I was unable to locate the accreditation "Lester Raye" in this story, but the other Eagle stories in this issue are signed as Lester Raye so the assumption can be made that this particular story is also scripted by Louis Cazeneuve.

Death Deals in Gold (Table of Contents: 2)

The Eagle / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script
Louis Cazeneuve (signed as Lester Raye)
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Yahoo!
Genre
superhero
Characters
The Eagle [Captain Bill Powers]; Buddy; Condor (villain, introduction); Gruber (villain, introduction); Sit-in-Mud; Jane Stewart; Lem; Sally Caldwell; Sgt. Caldwell
Synopsis
The Eagle and his cohorts break up a plot by Nazi's to ship American gold to Germany.
Keywords
gold mine

Indexer Notes

A number of sources state that Lester Raye is a pseudonym for Louis Cazeneuve.

The Trio Who Worked for Satan (Table of Contents: 3)

The Eagle / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
Louis Cazeneuve (signed)
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Guns roaring, bombs bursting in air-
Genre
superhero
Characters
The Eagle [Captain Bill Powers]; Buddy; The Unholy Three [Wong; Chubby; Roly] (villains, introduction for all); Wells; Lem Yokel; Sally Caldwell
Synopsis
During their visit of a Hollywood movie set, Captain Powers and his party encounter a group of saboteurs out to destroy anti-Axis films.
Keywords
Hollywood

Indexer Notes

A number of sources state that Lester Raye is a pseudonym for Louis Cazeneuve.

The Unholy Three Return (Table of Contents: 4)

The Eagle / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script
Louis Cazeneuve (signed as Lester Raye)
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
The first break at the bleak, island prison, housing the government's most dangerous prisoners, is engineered successfully...
Genre
superhero
Characters
The Eagle [Captain Bill Powers]; Buddy; The Unholy Three [Wong; Chubby; Roly] (villains); Dan Cartone (villain, introduction, death); Jimmy Cartone; American Eagle Defenders
Synopsis
The Unholy Three help Dan Cartone escape from prison.
Keywords
Alcazar Prison; Cartone Island

Indexer Notes

A number of sources state that Lester Raye is a pseudonym for Louis Cazeneuve.

[The Torture Racketeers] (Table of Contents: 5)

The Spider Queen / comic story / 7.5 pages (report information)

Script
Louis Cazeneuve ? (signed as Elsa Lisau)
Pencils
Pierce Rice
Inks
Arturo Cazeneuve ? (signed as Elsa Lisau)
Colors
?
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
A band of vicious racketeers, by means of threats, torture, and kidnapping, is forcing small store keepers to sign over their shops!
Genre
superhero
Characters
The Spider Queen [Shannon Kane]; Detective Mike O'Bell; group of racketeers (villains)
Synopsis
Spider Queen must battle a vicious group of racketeers who, by means of threats, torture and kidnapping, is forcing small store keepers to sign over their shops.
Reprints

Indexer Notes

The AC reprint credits Louis Cazeneuve as penciler and Art Cazeneuve as inker. Elsa Lesau/Lisau are pseudonyms of the Cazeneuve Brothers (Louis and Arturo). The pseudonym is spelt Lesau in issue #2 and spelt Lisau in this and issue #4. It is probable that Louis scripted and Arturo inked this story.

The last half of page 8 is an illustrated advertisement for The Gladiator, great new hero appearing in Fantastic Comics. On sale August 8th. Illustration penciled by Pierce Rice.

Nothing Ever Happens (Table of Contents: 6)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Don Hastings, a new man on the New York police force, paced back and forth along the subway platform, thinking to himself that nothing ever happened on his beat.
Genre
adventure
Characters
Don Hastings; Sgt. Oneil
Synopsis
Don encounters a saboteur attempting to blow up a subway train.
Keywords
subway

[The Origin of Joe Spook] (Table of Contents: 7)

Joe Spook / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script
Sam Walters (signed)
Pencils
Sam Citron (credited as Citron)
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Far away in the war-torn Balkans, almost hidden under the snowy peaks of the Caucasus, lies the tiny mountain kindgom of Luzano...
Genre
adventure; fantasy-supernatural
Characters
Joe Spook [Joe Devaney] (first appearance; origin; death; reborn; a ghost); Nickie the Boy King [King Nicholas Robertus Christopher Alexander Paul Danilo Danilovich] (first appearance; origin); Von Zuppe (first appearance; villain); Sutzel (first appearance; villain)
Synopsis
Von Zuppe and Sutzel attempt to force Nickie the Boy King into abdicating the throne of Luzano.
Keywords
Luzano

Indexer Notes

A previous editor stated that Sam Citron is credited as pencilling this, but I was unable to locate an accreditation in the scanned copy I viewed.

Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. ["The Eagle and Buddy face the hardest tasks of their lives when they meet the Unholy Trio!"]
    The Eagle
  2. 1. [The Fifth Column of the Indians]
    The Eagle
  3. 2. Death Deals in Gold
    The Eagle
  4. 3. The Trio Who Worked for Satan
    The Eagle
  5. 4. The Unholy Three Return
    The Eagle
  6. 5. [The Torture Racketeers]
    The Spider Queen
  7. 6. Nothing Ever Happens
  8. 7. [The Origin of Joe Spook]
    Joe Spook
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Craig Delich
  • Gregory Fischer
  • Del Gruber
  • Lou Mougin (R.I.P.)
  • Tony R. Rose
  • Ramon Schenk
  • Jim Van Dore
  • Tom Zsolt