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Publisher: DC

Title: Leading Comics
Issue: 12
Page Count: 52
Publish Date: Fall 1944
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Leading Comics #12
Owner: PowderedH2O

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Story Title: The Million Dollar Challenge! - cover
Pages:1
Genre:superhero
Characters:Seven Soldiers of Victory [The Crimson Avenger; The Shining Knight; Vigilante; Green Arrow; Star-Spangled Kid]


Story Title: Editorial Advisory Board - promo (ad from the publisher)
Pages:0.33
Letters:typeset


Story Title: [ no title ] - promo (ad from the publisher)
Pages:0.67


Story Title: Million Dollar Challenge! - comic story
Pages:4
Genre:superhero
Characters:Seven Soldiers of Victory [The Star-Spangled Kid [Sylvester Pemberton]; Stripesy [Pat Dugan]; The Crimson Avenger [Lee Travis]; Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]; Speedy [Roy Harper]; The Shining Knight [Sir Justin]; Vigilante [Greg Sanders]]; Wing; Weldon Darrel; Weldon Darrel's secretary (villain)
Synopsis:The Law's Legionnaires see an ad in the paper warning them to stay away from the estate of one Darrel Weldon. When they show up anyway, Darrel "penalizes" them by having them have dinner with him, where he relates that he has hidden valuables in 5 places, and if they can find them, following his clues, they will win a million dollars for any charity they wish.


Story Title: Chap II: The Cache in the Canyon! - comic story
Features:The Vigilante; Seven Soldiers of Victory
Pages:6
Genre:superhero
Characters:The Vigilante [Greg Sanders]; The Boss (villain, introduction); Pete (villain, introduction); other unnamed outlaws (villains, introduction)
Synopsis:Vigilante heads west to a mining claim owned by Darrel, looking for the valuables hidden there, and runs smack dab into a group of outlaws intent on killing him. Vig finds the treasure and learns the outlaws were after him because they were working Darrel's claim illegally.


Story Title: [ no title ] - advertisement
Features:Wheaties
Pages:1


Story Title: Chap. 3: The Power of the Press! - comic story
Pages:7
Genre:superhero
Characters:The Crimson Avenger [Lee Travis]; Wing; Charlie the Horse (villain)
Synopsis:The clue provided the Avenger leads him and Wing to a local newspaper office where they discover that Darrel once had a beef with the newspaper and bought it. He discovers the treasure is inside an old newspaper press, and gangsters show up, claiming the money is really theirs since they own the press.


Story Title: Chap. 4: The Safe from the Sky! - comic story
Pages:7
Genre:superhero
Characters:The Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]; Speedy [Roy Harper]; Mulcahy
Synopsis:Green Arrow and Speedy visit a museum, insisting that they have permission to take a meteorite that Darrel lent it, believing it contains the treasure they seek, but instead are arrested as crooks.


Story Title: 150 Mile Race to Save a Nation! - advertisement
Features:Thom McAn
Pages:2


Story Title: Chap. V: The Puzzle of the Pyramid! - comic story
Pages:6
Genre:superhero
Characters:The Shining Knight [Sir Justin]; un-named crooks (villains)
Synopsis:Seeking the treasure of Darrel's, brought to the Hudson River from Egypt, the Knight discovers a metal pyramid and investigates. Hearing a cry for help, he runs into a group of crooks, who have heard other Legionnaires are being considered criminals for "stealing" things belonging to Darrel, so they attempt to make the Knight look similarly guilty at this scene. However, the Knight overpowers them, But the Shining Knight is puzzled since the loot he seeks turns out to be a pair of infant's shoes and some children's toys!


Story Title: Chap. VI: Murder in Miniature! - comic story
Features:The Star-Spangled Kid and Stripesy; Seven Soldiers of Victory
Pages:6
Genre:superhero
Characters:The Star-Spangled Kid [Sylvester Pemberton]; Stripesy [Pat Dugan]; Kansas City Kane; Chowderhead Charlie (villain, introduction); Cecil the Chimp (villain, introduction)
Synopsis:Their clue leads the Kid and Stripesy to a grotto where Darrel once tried to reform criminals, and they discover a miniature city whose bank contains the treasure that they seek.


Story Title: Chapter 7 [Conclusion] - comic story
Pages:4
Genre:superhero
Characters:Seven Soldiers of Victory [The Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]; Speedy [Roy Harper]; The Crimson Avenger [Lee Travis]; The Vigilante [Greg Sanders]; The Shining Knight [Sir Justin]] Wing; Weldon Darrel; Weldon Darrel's secretary (villain)
Synopsis:Perplexed that they are considered thieves because of seeking out the treasures Darrel wanted them to find, they face the man, who confesses that he isn't Darrel at all, but an impostor, and he had previously sent other members of his own gang out to seek the treasures, but then thought better of it because he couldn't "trust" them to give him the loot.


Story Title: [ no title ] - comic story
Features:Quiz Quix
Pages:1


Story Title: Actually Fly - advertisement
Features:Wheaties
Pages:1
Letters:typeset


Story Title: Death Strikes Twice - text story
Pages:2
Letters:typeset
Genre:adventure


Story Title: [ no title ] - advertisement
Features:Wonders of Living Things
Pages:1
Letters:typeset


Story Title: [ no title ] - advertisement
Features:Charles Atlas
Pages:1


Story Title: Captain Tootsie Battles Monster Man! - comics-form advertising
Pages:1
Genre:superhero
Characters:Captain Tootsie; Rollo; Monster Man


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