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Publisher: Lev Gleason

Title: Silver Streak Comics
Issue: 8
Page Count: 68
Publish Date: March 1941
Volume: 1
Contributors: Editor: Dan Gillmor ?

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Silver Streak Comics #8
Owner: gino2paulus2

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Story Title: [ no title ] - cover
Features:Daredevil and the Claw
Pages:1
Pencils:Jack Cole (signed)
Inks:Jack Cole (signed)
Genre:superhero
Characters:Daredevil [Bart Hill]; The Claw; Dickie Dean (inset); Silver Streak (inset); Pirate Prince (inset)


Story Title: [ no title ] - promo (ad from the publisher)
Features:Silver Streak
Pages:1
Pencils:Jack Cole
Inks:Jack Cole
Letters:typeset
Genre:superhero
Characters:Silver Streak; Whiz (pet falcon)
Synopsis:Illustrated promotional ad giving free to readers a 7" x 10 1/4" four color portrait poster of the Silver Streak for every two "Silver Streak Portrait Certificates" they mailed in, OR 10 cents in coin with only one certificate. Readers were told this issue would have one certificate and the next issue would have another one.


Story Title: The Claw vs. Daredevil [Part 2] - comic story
Features:Daredevil and The Claw
Pages:10
Pencils:Jack Cole (signed)
Inks:Jack Cole (signed)
Genre:superhero
Characters:Daredevil [Bart Hill]; President Franklin D. Roosevelt; un-named police commissioner; The Claw (villain)
Synopsis:When Daredevil, as Bart Hill, learns that the President of the United States has imposed a new tax of 50% on people's incomes and that people are barred from their churches, he decides to take action. He has a doctor examine the President and discovers that the chief executive is in a state of coma, put there by the Claw.


Story Title: [ no title ] - cartoon
Features:Sport Shorts by Ernie Bulbnose
Pages:1
Pencils:David B. Icove [as D. B. I.] (signed)
Inks:David B. Icove [as D. B. I.] (signed)
Genre:humor; sports
Characters:Sid Bucktooth; "Battlin' Buzz"; "Slug" Fest; "Dizzy" Lumpo; Hap Kluk; Axel Skug; Slim Zlam
Synopsis:Group of five stand-alone humorous sports cartoons.


Story Title: [ no title ] - comic story
Features:The Pirate Prince
Pages:5
Pencils:Dick Briefer [as REM Brant] (signed)
Inks:Dick Briefer [as REM Brant] (signed)
Genre:historical
Characters:The Pirate Prince
Synopsis:The prince and his crew approach a slave ship flying a white flag. When that ship draws near, it suddenly opens fire and the prince's ship goes down. The crew are saved by a whale which deposits the crew aboard the slaver ship and a fight ensues.


Story Title: [ no title ] - activity
Features:Can You Solve These?
Pages:1
Pencils:David B. Icove [as D. B. I.] (signed)
Inks:David B. Icove [as D. B. I.] (signed)
Synopsis:Readers are asked to solve 5 different problems.


Story Title: [ no title ] - comic story
Features:Silver Streak
Pages:8
Pencils:Jack Cole
Inks:Jack Cole
Genre:superhero
Characters:The Silver Streak [un-named taxi cab driver]; Whiz (a falcon); Harmon (FBI agent); Henry Smith (farmer); Eleene Smith (Henry's wife); Jerry (policeman); Walter Chinwell (news broadcaster); Steve Grogan [aka "The General"](villain, gang lord); Jaxon (villain, plant worker); Sam (villain, newsstand dealer)
Synopsis:Silver Streak is asked by the FBI to investigate reported spy activities at the Sterling Aircraft Plant. He discovers that one of the workers has a false eye camera in his head which he uses to photograph secrets and give them to "The General."


Story Title: Cactus Gulch - comic story
Features:Gully Gulliver
Pages:2
Pencils:David B. Icove [as D. B. Icove] (signed)
Inks:David B. Icove [as D. B. Icove] (signed)
Genre:humor
Characters:"Gully" Gulliver; Jed (Sheriff); Rammy (a goat); "Killer" Pete (villain)
Synopsis:When Gully hears that the Sheriff is heading out to look for "Killer" Pete, Gully and Rammy dedcide to find him first......with "electrifying" results.


Story Title: The Durmaleum Theft - comic story
Features:Cloud Curtis
Pages:6
Pencils:Jack Binder (signed)
Inks:Jack Binder (signed)
Genre:aviation
Characters:Cloud Curtis; Professor Lane; "Crusher" McCoy; "Pop" Whistler; Enzo Francor (villain, spy agent); Mitzi (villain, Francor's assistant)
Synopsis:Cloud and his pals must stop the evil Francor and his assistant from obtaining an important metal called Durmalem the Professor has invented that will revolutionize the airplane.


Story Title: [ no title ] - comic story
Features:Secret Agent X-101
Pages:4
Pencils:? [as Dick Dawson (byline)]
Inks:? [as Dick Dawson (byline)]
Genre:crime
Characters:Secret Agent X-101 [Bart Benson]; Pat White; Mr. Hendrix (villain); Sandra Hendrix (villain); Hans (villain)
Synopsis:Bart is very concerned about the murder of U.S. agents guarding the Air Force's new bomb sight that allows a bomb to land squarely on its target from a height of 50,000 feet. His investigation leads right back to the head of the aircraft company charged with protecting the invention.


Story Title: [ no title ] - comic story
Features:Lance Hale
Pages:5
Pencils:Fred Guardineer (signed)
Inks:Fred Guardineer (signed)
Letters:Fred Guardineer ?
Genre:jungle
Characters:Lance Hale; Ruth; un-named father of Ruth; un-named brother of Ruth; un-named cannibal chief (villain, death)
Synopsis:Lance comes upon a girl in the jungle that is threatened by a vicious leopard. After saving her, both head back to the M'Bongo River, where her father and brother were captured by savages.


Story Title: The Silver Ranger and His Wonder Horse, Lucifer (Episode 1) - text story
Features:The Silver Ranger
Pages:3
Pencils:Jack Binder (spot illustrations) (signed)
Inks:Jack Binder (spot illustrations) (signed)
Letters:typeset
Genre:western-frontier
Characters:The Silver Ranger (introduction); Lucifer (the Ranger's horse); Hank Brunner (death); Joel Brandon; Mary Brandon (Joel's wife); Sheriff Belden; Deputy Spider Jones (villain)
Synopsis:The Ranger must locate the true murderer of Hank Brunner before the Sheriff and his posse lynch an innocent man.


Story Title: Molo's Reign of Terror - comic story
Features:Presto Martin, Quick Change Artist
Pages:5
Pencils:Bob Wood (signed)
Inks:Bob Wood (signed)
Genre:adventure
Characters:Presto Martin [also as Molo's twin brother; also as Don Lopez] (Captain of Detectives, origin of his name); Sergeant Murphy (Policeman); un-named District Attorney; Dick Bradley (death); Kay Raye (actress, death); Peter Byron (producer, death); Lily Ponela (opera star, death); Bruce Canton (playwright, death); Molo's twice brother [as Jeeves] (villain, driver for Lopez); Molo (villain)
Synopsis:Presto uses his skill of disguise in order to locate and stop a vicious killer of stage and screen personalities.


Story Title: [ no title ] - cartoon
Features:Laffs
Pages:1
Pencils:David B. Icove
Inks:David B. Icove
Letters:typeset
Genre:humor
Characters:Wilbur
Synopsis:Series of 8 different stand-alone cartoons.


Story Title: The Gunpowder Mission - comic story
Features:Dan Dearborn, Freedom's Son
Pages:4
Pencils:Walter Galli (signed)
Inks:Walter Galli (signed)
Genre:historical
Characters:Captain Dan Dearborn; General George Washington; Major George Rogers Clark; Jerry (Dan's sidekick); Captain Neville (in charge of the garrison at Ft. Pitt); Jed Swift (riverboat pilot); Scarface Dykes (villain); Tuff Kendon (villain);
Synopsis:Captain Dearborn is sent by George Washington to Fort Pitt to meet up with Major George Rogers Clark, then the pair will deliver much needed gun powder to Boonesboro, Kentucky.


Story Title: [ no title ] - advertisement
Features:Silver Streak Stamp Page
Pages:1
Letters:typeset
Characters:Will Rogers
Synopsis:The editors proudly announce a new series of stamps, based on the characters found in the thrilling book, "Mutiny on the Bounty". The page also lists ads from various stamp dealers with many stamps shown.


Story Title: Professor Skinn Strikes Back - comic story
Features:Dickie Dean, Boy Inventor
Pages:8
Pencils:Jack Cole (signed)
Inks:Jack Cole (signed)
Genre:adventure
Characters:Dickie Dean; Mr. Dean; Martha Dean; Zip Todd; Professor Skinn (villain); "Blubber" (villain); radio controlled robots (villains)
Synopsis:Professor Skinn and Blubber break out of jail and kidnap Dickie's parents, and when he shows up to rescue them, the Professor attempts to use his new invention on them all.....an invention that can reduce humans to chemicals!


Story Title: [ no title ] - comic story
Features:Rusty
Pages:1
Pencils:Bob Wood (signed)
Inks:Bob Wood (signed)
Genre:humor
Characters:Rusty; un-named mother of Rusty; Mr. Jones (newsstand dealer); The Claw (image)
Synopsis:When Rusty discovers that today, the 10th, is his brother's birthday, he hurries to the newsstand to get the latest issue of Silver Streak Comics, which, after he reads it, will be his brother's present!


Story Title: [ no title ] - advertisement
Features:Daisy Air Rifles
Pages:1
Pencils:Fred Harman (signed)
Inks:Fred Harman (signed)
Letters:typeset
Characters:Red Ryder; Little Beaver
Synopsis:Illustrated ad for the new Red Ryder Cowboy Carbine.


View this comic at comics.org. Data courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under a Creative Commons Attribution license.

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