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Publisher: Lev Gleason

Title: Daredevil Comics
Issue: 8
Page Count: 68
Publish Date: March 1942
Volume: 1
Contributors: Editor: Charles Biro; Bob Wood

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Daredevil Comics #8
Owner: Paratrooper

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Story Title: [ no title ] - cover
Features:Daredevil
Pages:1
Pencils:Charles Biro [as Biro] (signed)
Inks:Charles Biro [as Biro] (signed)
Genre:superhero
Characters:Daredevil [Bart Hill]; The Claw (inset)


Story Title: The Return of Sniffer - comic story
Features:Daredevil
Pages:13
Pencils:Charles Biro [as Biro] (signed)
Inks:Charles Biro [as Biro] (signed)
Genre:superhero
Characters:Daredevil [Bart Hill]; Sniffer; Dick Schmidt (introduction); Mr. Schmidt (introduction); Mrs. Schmidt (introduction); O'Dooley (Policeman); Herr Herring (villain); Bundists (villains, introduction for all)
Synopsis:Daredevil uses young David Schmidt to infiltrate a Bund organization to get the goods on them and what they are up to before he mops up the house with them.


Story Title: Crippled Vengeance: Chapter Three - comic story
Features:Thirteen and Jinx
Pages:8
Pencils:Bernard Klein [as Bernie Klein] (signed)
Inks:Bernard Klein [as Bernie Klein] (signed)
Genre:superhero
Characters:Thirteen [Harold Higgins]; Jinx [Darrel Creig]; Marie Duvall; Red (armored car driver, death); Mike (armored car driver, death); King Questionmark [also as Mrs. Dodge] (villain); Hitler (villain, introduction, gangster); Goebbels (villain, introduction, gangster); Lord Haw Haw (villain, introduction, gangster)
Synopsis:Thirteen, Jinx and Marie make it out of the burning house and to a car that they hope to make a get-away in, believing that King Questionmark has perished in the fire. But the King has survived and knocks over an armored car for the cash, accidently leaving one of his cronies behind for the Police to capture. Unfortunately for Thirteen and Jinx, King Questionmark busts Gobbels out of jail and the villain casts a bomb into the air.


Story Title: South American Smasher - comic story
Features:Whirlwind the Blonde Bomber
Pages:5
Pencils:Bernard Klein [as Bernie] (signed)
Inks:Bernard Klein [as Bernie] (signed)
Genre:superhero
Characters:Whirlwind [Terry Turner]; Mickey Warren (world boxing champion); K. O. Kelly; Rosita; Castelli (villain, introduction, South American boxing champion)
Synopsis:Terry and Mickey decide to go into town to watch K.O. put the moves on a Mexican senorita, when the South American champ, Castelli, roughs K.O. and man-handles the girl. Terry decides to have it out with Castelli in a boxing ring...fair and square.


Story Title: Little Big Shot - comic story
Features:Nightro
Pages:5
Pencils:George Roussos
Inks:George Roussos
Genre:superhero
Characters:Nightro [Hugh Goddard]; Joe (grocery store owner); Tony; New York Benny (villain, introduction, flashback, death); Buggs (villain, flashback)
Synopsis:Hugh is walking the streets when he sees two young boys pull a fast one on a grocer. After stopping them and repaying the grocer, and hoping to turn them from a life of crime, Hugh tells them the story of New York Benny.


Story Title: The New Silver Streak Bombshell - promo (ad from the publisher)
Features:Silver Streak Comics
Pages:2
Pencils:various
Inks:various
Characters:Silver Streak (unknown taxi cab driver); Captain Battle [Jonathan Hale]; Hale Battle; The Pirate Prince; The Saint; Dickie Dean
Synopsis:Illustrated promtional centerfold advertisement for the new issue of Silver Streak Comics and some of the features inside.


Story Title: Hollywood Sabotage - comic story
Features:Pat Patriot
Pages:6
Pencils:Lin Streeter ?; Al Fagly ?
Inks:Lin Streeter ?; Al Fagly ?
Genre:superhero
Characters:Pat Patriot [Patricia Patrios]; Delznic (movie producer); Keef (guard on the set); Mr. Reynolds (Boy Scout leader); Walter Mills (villain, actor); Fritz Haubner (villain, introduction, death)
Synopsis:Miss Patriot is invited on set to watch a new war movie being made called "Fight to Die," and meets the star of the movie, who has fallen for her. However, little does Pat know that the star of the film is in on a Nazi plot to sabotage the nearby aircraft plant.
Reprinted:in Men of Mystery (AC, 1999 series) #113 (2019) in black and white


Story Title: This Page Is Reserved for Sniffer - promo (ad from the publisher)
Features:Sniffer
Pages:1
Pencils:Charles Biro
Inks:Charles Biro
Characters:Sniffer


Story Title: The Oil Racketeers - comic story
Features:Real "Number One" American
Pages:6
Pencils:Dick Briefer (signed)
Inks:Dick Briefer (signed)
Genre:adventure
Characters:Bronze Terror [Jeff Dixon] (lawyer); Fred (gas station attendant); Lefty (villain, introduction); Flaps (villain, introduction)
Synopsis:When Jeff sees a friend of his being beaten up at a gas station, he wades into them, gives them a shellacking, and lets them go, not realizing they are criminals that had just committed a heist. Hiding out on an Indian reservation, Lefty sees a pool of oil on their land and buys it for $25,000...but he doesn't realize he has been taken!


Story Title: Transpacific Tragedy - text story
Pages:3
Letters:typeset
Genre:adventure


Story Title: Who Is the Boar? - comic story
Features:London
Pages:7
Pencils:Jerry Robinson (signed)
Inks:Jerry Robinson (signed)
Genre:superhero
Characters:London [Marc Holmes]; Leslie Holmes (introduction, a female spy); The Boar (villain, introduction); Adolf Hitler (villain); the Nazis (villains)
Synopsis:While battling a criminal, Leslie saves London's life and thus makes headlines all over the world...headlines that reach Nazi Germany, where Hitler unleashes the first super-powered villain London has faced: The Boar.


Story Title: Case of the Missing Mayor - comic story
Features:The Claw versus The Ghost
Pages:7
Pencils:Bob Wood (signed)
Inks:Bob Wood (signed)
Genre:superhero
Characters:The Claw (villain); The Ghost [Brad Hendricks]; unnamed Mayor; Adolf Hitler (villain, cameo); Yong (villain)
Synopsis:After battling the Ghost and possibly killing him, the Claw disappears. But the Ghost is not dead and wonders why his enemy has vanished...until he hears that the Mayor has been kidnapped and would be murdered unless the city surrenders.


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