- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- ?
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hold on to your seats, gang!
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Captain Freedom [Don Wright]; The Young Defenders [Slim; Whitey; Lefty; Blackie; Beanie; Joanie]; Heist Hogan (Villain; Intro)
Keith Chandler : A previous indexer attributed the art to 'Rudy Palais ?', but compare the style to the signed cover and it clearly is not his work.
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Bob Fujitani
- Inks
- Bob Fujitani
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Legendary is the sly deceitfulness of our Pacific enemy...
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Shock Gibson [Robert Charles Gibson]; Colonel Mohandas Bagore; Vishnu (villain); The Japanese (villains)
- Synopsis
- Shock is called into action by reports of Indian troops committing mutiny over the appearance of Vishnu the Destroyer.
- Reprints
Art credits [previously with a ?] verified by Bill Black, added by Craig Delich 2011-4-24.
- Script
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The Globe-Girdler...
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Captain Freedom [Don Wright]; The Young Defenders [Slim; Whitey; Lefty; Blackie; Beanie; Joanie]; Professor Hugarb
The Story Behind the Cover
The balance of page two is taken up with the annual Statement of Ownership.
- Script
- Leon Harvey (credited) (editor)
- Letters
- typeset
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Rudy Palais ?
- Inks
- Rudy Palais ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Science and circumstance collaborate...
- Genre
- adventure; humor; sports
- Characters
- Billy Bickerstaff (football fullback); Professor Dixon (Shirley's father); Shirley Dixon (Billy's date); Watson (the Dixon's butler); Tony (villain, an organ grinder); Tony's monkey (villain)
- Synopsis
- Billy and Shirley head out on a date after Billy is told about her father's experiments to get animals to grow several times their own size. When Shirley's purse is snatched by an organ grinder's monkey, Billy chases the man into the Professor's lab, where he accidently receives an injection of the growth serum.
- Keywords
- Victorville
The last third of page seven has an illustrated ad for four Army and Navy related humorous magazines.
Keith Chandler : This is much more like the art style of Palais than attributed stories in previous issues.
- Script
- Art Helfant (signed)
- Pencils
- Art Helfant (signed)
- Inks
- Art Helfant (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- humor; war; military
- Characters
- Biff Bannon; The Admiral
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Arturo Cazeneuve (signed)
- Inks
- Arturo Cazeneuve (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- In this fast and furious tale...
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Tommy Buttersworth; "Soho" Smith; Mahatma Mohrandi
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Jill Elgin
- Inks
- Jill Elgin
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Here is a tale of a treaty torn...
- Genre
- adventure; war
- Characters
- The Girl Commandos [Pat Parker; Tanya; Ellen; Penny; Mei-Ling]; General Yashimoto (Villain; Intro); the Japanese (Villain)