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Comic Cavalcade 4

COMIC CAVALCADE #4

Cover Date: Fall 1943
Cover Price: $.15
Publication Date: 1943-08-28

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Cover Credits:
Art: Frank Harry


Story: [No Title] (13 Pages)

Credits:

StoryCharles Moulton
ArtHarry G. Peter
LetteringMechanical
EditingSheldon Mayer

Feature Character(s):

Wonder Woman (last in All-Star Comics #18; next in Sensation Comics #23)

Supporting Character(s):

Major Steve Trevor
Etta Candy
Colonel Darnell

Villain(s):

Bertha Nagle (first appearance; a Nazi agent trying to steal a new anti-torpedo weapon)

Other Character(s):

Alltrue Blythe (first appearance; an engineer who uses an invention of Wonder Woman's to build an anti-torpedo weapon)

Location(s):

Washington, DC
Atlantic Ocean

Story Reprinted in:

Wonder Woman Golden Age Omnibus #1 (2016)


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Second Story: "A Pair of Kings" (6 Pages)

Credits:

StoryGardner Fox
ArtJon Chester Kozlak
EditingSheldon Mayer

Feature Character(s):

King (next in All-Flash #13/2)

Supporting Character(s):

Witch (next in All-Flash #13/2)

Villain(s):

Homer Wolfe (first appearance; a character actor who decides to impersonate The King to cash in on robberies)


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Third Story: "The Biography of A Nazi..." (8 Pages)

Credits:

StoryTed Udall
ArtHoward Purcell
EditingSheldon Mayer

Feature Character(s):

Grim Ghost (between Sensation Comics #22/4 and #23/4)

Villain(s):

Otto Strossel (first appearance; a Nazi; also in flashbacks to his childhood; dies)

Other Character(s):

Hans Strossel (first appearance; a chemist and narrator of this story)

Location(s):

Gotham City
London, England


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Fourth Story: "Have You Read Any Good Books Lately?" (13 Pages)

Credits:

PencilsPaul Reinman
InksSam Burlockoff
EditingSheldon Mayer

Feature Character(s):

Green Lantern (last in Green Lantern #9/4; next in All-American Comics #54)

Supporting Character(s):

Doiby Dickles

Villain(s):

Jake Blintz (first appearance; uses a book written by Sure Shot Shloop to plan and commit robberies)

Other Character(s):

Sure Shot Shloop (first appearance; a retired crook who wrote a "Crook's Catalogue of Crime")

Comment(s):

Recites the oath:
In brightest day
in blackest night,
no evil shall escape my sight!
Let those who worship evil's might,
beware my power,
Green Lantern's light!


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Fifth Story: "Mark Time, Mister!" (6 Pages)

Credits:

StoryJon L. Blummer
ArtJon L. Blummer
LetteringJon L. Blummer
EditingSheldon Mayer

Feature Character(s):

Hop Harrigan (next in Comic Cavalcade #6/2)

Supporting Character(s):

Tank Tinker

Villain(s):

Nazis

Location(s):

France

Comment(s):

This story takes place between 11:45 PM and 8:00 AM.


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Sixth Story: [No Title] (6 Pages)

Credits:

StorySheldon Mayer
ArtSheldon Mayer
LetteringSheldon Mayer
EditingSheldon Mayer

Feature Character(s):

Red Tornado (between All-American Comics #44 and #45)

Supporting Character(s):

Scribbly Jibbet
Cyclone Kid
Cyclone Kid
Gus Hunkel (full name may be Montmorency Gustavus Hunkel III)
Herman Hunkel

Villain(s):

Miss Drizzlewater (first appearance; tries to kill Gus for insurance money)


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Seventh Story: "The Man Who Wouldn't Put His Lights Out!" (4 Pages)

Credits:

StoryIrwin Hasen
ArtIrwin Hasen
LetteringIrwin Hasen
EditingSheldon Mayer

Feature Character(s):

Long John O'Malley

Supporting Character(s):

Willie

Other Character(s):

Garfield Golemine (first appearance; an over-eager air raid spotter)


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Eighth Story: "Turncoat Terrorism" (6 Pages)

Credits:

StoryJohn B. Wentworth
ArtSheldon Moldoff
LetteringSheldon Moldoff
EditingSheldon Mayer

Feature Character(s):

Sargon the Sorcerer

Supporting Character(s):

Flora Styles

Villain(s):

Dr. Popescu (first appearance; a Nazi posing as a refugee aid but exploits immigrants to do work for the Fifth Columnists)


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Ninth Story: "Hop Harrigan and the Coconuts" (2 Pages)

Credits:

LetteringTypeset
EditingSheldon Mayer

Feature Character(s):

Hop Harrigan

Supporting Character(s):

Tank Tinker

Villain(s):

Japanese Air Force (first appearance for both)

Location(s):

New Guinea

Comment(s):

This is a text story.


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Tenth Story: "Winky Turns Wrestler!" (13 Pages)

Credits:

StoryGardner Fox
PencilsLou Ferstadt
InksMartin Naydel
EditingSheldon Mayer

Feature Character(s):

Flash (last in All-Flash #12; next in Flash Comics #47)

Supporting Character(s):

Joan Williams (last in All-Flash #12; next in Flash Comics #47)
Three Dimwits:
Winky Moylan (next in All-Flash #13)
Blinky Boylan (next in All-Flash #13)
Noddy Toylan (next in All-Flash #13)

Villain(s):

Slits Carson (first appearance; a wrestling racketeer)

Comment(s):

Lou Ferstadt and Martin Naydel credited as E. E. Hibbard.


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