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Credits:
Story | Will Eisner |
Art | Dan Zolnerowich |
Lettering | Dan Zolnerowich |
Editing | Ed Cronin |
Feature Character(s):
Supporting Character(s):
Villain(s):
- Madame Doom (next in issue #20)
- Count Mirov (first appearance; wants to kill attendees to a conference to take control of South America; probably dies)
- Living Bombs (first appearance; zealots who drink a potion that allows them to explode; all die)
Location(s):
- New York City, NY
- Washington, DC
Comment(s):
- Eisner and Zolnerowich credited as Erwin.
Credits:
Story | Paul Gustavson |
Art | Paul Gustavson |
Lettering | Paul Gustavson |
Editing | Ed Cronin |
Feature Character(s):
Villain(s):
- Professor Abbot and his gang (first appearance for all; ousted Physics professor of Stamton College; creates a paralysis ray; dies)
Credits:
Story | Vernon Henkel |
Art | Vernon Henkel |
Lettering | Vernon Henkel |
Editing | Ed Cronin |
Feature Character(s):
- Wings Wendall (poses as a newspaper reporter)
Villain(s):
- An invading nation south of Tronvik (first appearance for all; probably Nazis)
Location(s):
- Tronvik (first appearance; a small Scandinavian country)
Credits:
Story | Will Eisner |
Art | Lou Fine |
Lettering | Lou Fine |
Editing | Ed Cronin |
Feature Character(s):
- Ray (Lanford "Happy" Terril; first appearance, a reporter for the (Philadelphia) Telegraph; becomes altered by "cosmic rays")
Villain(s):
- Anton Rox and his gang (first appearance for all)
Other Character(s):
- Professor Styne (first appearance; a scientist; later revealed to be working with RONOL; also invents an explosive gas)
- Light Entity (revealed to be behind the scenes in ...)
Comment(s):
- This story takes place in April, 1939. A retelling of this story in Ray Vol. 2 #9 places it at a later date (December 7, 1941), which is too late and must be considered to take place in an alternate universe, but some version of that flashback did occur in the DCU.
Credits:
Story | Art Pinajian |
Art | Art Pinajian |
Lettering | Art Pinajian |
Editing | Ed Cronin |
Feature Character(s):
Villain(s):
- Darke (first appearance; a violent mine owner; dies)
Location(s):
- A Pacific Island
Comment(s):
- Art Pinajian credited as Art Gordon.
Credits:
Story | Vernon Henkel |
Art | Vernon Henkel |
Lettering | Vernon Henkel |
Editing | Ed Cronin |
Feature Character(s):
Villain(s):
- Grayson (first appearance; an explorer who goes insane and captures men to work a gold mine; dies)
Location(s):
- Yakut, Canada
Credits:
Art | Alex Blum |
Lettering | Alex Blum |
Editing | Ed Cronin |
Feature Character(s):
- Purple Trio
- Rocky Hill (dresses up as a rug merchant)
- Tiny Todd (dresses up as a little girl and a rug merchant)
- Warren (dresses up as Tiny's nanny and a rug merchant)
Villain(s):
- Spies (first appearance for all)
Other Character(s):
- Warren's Uncle Jim (first appearance; owns a steamship company)
Location(s):
- Dardanelles (a strait going through Northern Turkey)
Comment(s):
- Alex Blum credited as S. M. Regi.
Credits:
Story | George Brenner |
Art | George Brenner |
Lettering | George Brenner |
Editing | Ed Cronin |
Feature Character(s):
- Hugh Hazzard (rides inside Bozo and uses a remote to control him)
- Bozo the Iron Man
Villain(s):
- an unnamed scientist (first appearance; uses a "Thyroid Serum" to animate a large cadaver; dies)
- Brutus (first appearance; a giant cadaver that was animated; destroyed)
Comment(s):
- George E. Brenner credited as Wayne Reid.