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Issue: Silver Streak Comics #6 Public Domain
Publication Date: September 1940
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Issues: #6 of 23 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagLev Gleason
Brand: A Rhoda Publ. YG
Indicia Publisher: Your Guide Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 07/01/1940
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 16 (11 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1940, New Series, Vol. 35, No. 3.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: full color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing
Format Notes:  
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reprinted 15 times as/in other Issues.
reprinted 20 times as Content Items in other Issues.
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The Claw Returns!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Claw
Character(s): The Claw
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagFlashback #27 published January 1974
In Issue: FlagAction! Mystery! Thrills! Comic Book Covers of the Golden Age: 1933-45 #[nn] published December 2011
In Issue: FlagSilver Streak Archives Featuring the Original Daredevil #2 published December 2012
In Content Item: FlagSupermen! The First Wave of Comic Book Heroes 1936-1941 #[nn] published February 2009
as The Claw Returns! [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSilver Streak Archives Featuring the Original Daredevil #1 published June 2012
as Silver Streak Comics #6 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Announcing the winners of the Silver Streak Contest!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Silver Streak [un-named taxi cab driver]
Synopsis: Illustrated announcement of the winners in the Silver Streak Contest: 1st Prize won by Stanley & Bruce Bass ($5), 2nd Prize of $2 won by Don Murphy, and there were 18 other winners of $1.00 each.
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In Content Item: FlagSilver Streak Archives Featuring the Original Daredevil #1 published June 2012
as Announcing the Winners of the Silver Streak Contest! [Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Found on the inside front cover.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Silver Streak (un-named taxi cab driver); Whiz (introduction, pet falcon); Sir Cedric Baldwin; Shadra; the Nazis (villains); Sheik Ali Ben Hassan (villain)
First Line: All of America is agog at the accomplishments of the world's ace of speed, Silver Streak --
Synopsis: Sir Cedric challenges the Streak to a race, and he agrees to make it an around the world affair. On the way, the Streak fights the Nazis, rescues a girl from an evil sheik, prevents that sheik from harming a caravan of American travelers on their way to Maskat, and wins the race.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagFlashback #27 published January 1974
In Content Item: FlagSilver Streak Comics #[22] published February 1946
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSilver Streak Archives Featuring the Original Daredevil #1 published June 2012
as Race Around the World [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Silver Streak was originally an un-named cab driver and his identity not revealed.
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The Flying Dragon

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: aviation, war
Feature(s): The Sky Wolf
Character(s): The Sky Wolf [Paul Storm]; Crane (villain, death); un-named chief (villain, death)
Synopsis: Sky Wolf comes across a weird plane used by a gang of vicious criminals who defy the law by using scientific methods to rob and plunder. He is forced to the ground and offered the chance to join the group. When he refuses, the gang throws him into a cell, from which he escapes, then uses his own plane to destroy the gang.
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In Issue: FlagFlashback #27 published January 1974
In Content Item: FlagSilver Streak Archives Featuring the Original Daredevil #1 published June 2012
as The Flying Dragon [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Feature(s): Bill Wayne, the Texas Terror
Character(s): Bill Wayne [aka the Texas Terror] (Texas Ranger); Hank Russel (rancher, death); Adams (rancher); un-named sheriff; Nick Carro (villain)
First Line: ...and with our organization we can run a protection racket with them dumb ranchers.
Synopsis: Ranger Wayne has to prevent a protection racket from moving into the west to take advantage of the cattle ranchers.
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In Issue: FlagFlashback #27 published January 1974
In Content Item: FlagSilver Streak Archives Featuring the Original Daredevil #1 published June 2012
as Nick Carro's Protection Racket [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Story printed in red, black and white. Last appearance in Silver Streak.
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Slow Drawin' Fool

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Character(s): Jed Graymes; Mike Kenly; Blackie Ranson (villain, death)
Synopsis: Young Jed Graymes must face the man who killed his father and took over the Bar-30 spread, which rightfully belonged to him.
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In Issue: FlagFlashback #27 published January 1974
In Content Item: FlagCaptain Battle Jr. #2 published January 1944
as Slow Drawin' Fool [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]without illustrations
In Content Item: FlagSilver Streak Archives Featuring the Original Daredevil #1 published June 2012
as Slow Drawin' Fool [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Art printed in red, black and white. The splash page drawing IS signed, but cannot decipher it fully (first two letters appear to be "Co"). The full figure illustration on page two looks like Jack Cole's work.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Green Claw
Character(s): The Green Claw (villain); Major Carl Tarrant; un-named police commissioner; un-named followers of the Claw (villains, all die)
First Line: In the remote mountain regions of Asia, a cult of devil worshippers gather around a gigantic corpse that has been consigned to the flames
Synopsis: The Green Claw literally rises from the dead, and it's up to Carl Durrant to investigate. However, the Claw uses hypnotic powers on the major and he is shrunk and placed in a box to die while the Claw readies an army of robots to conquer the armies of the Earth.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagFlashback #27 published January 1974
In Content Item: FlagCaptain Battle Jr. #2 published January 1944
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSilver Streak Archives Featuring the Original Daredevil #1 published June 2012
as The Claw Lives Again [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Daredevil, Master of Courage
Character(s): Daredevil [Bart Hill] (introduction, first origin); Joe Ripper (villain, death); Ricco (villain, club owner and gang leader); Joe (villain); Conde (villain, gang leader)
First Line: I swear to devote my time on earth to make crime pay for the death of my mother and father.
Synopsis: Joe Ripper, having murdered a bank guard and stolen the bank's money, is prevented from escaping by Daredevil. Daredevil finds a clue on Ripper's body and begins to hunt down the Ricco Gang that Ripper was a part of. He arrives in time to stop the gang from destroying the rival Conde Gang and captures both gangs.
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In Issue: FlagFlashback #27 published January 1974
In Issue: FlagL'âge merveilleux des Comics #2 published ?
In Content Item: FlagMagnificent Superheroes of Comics Golden Age #1 published January 1979
as Master of Courage [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSilver Streak Archives Featuring the Original Daredevil #1 published June 2012
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Daredevil's origin was revised in Daredevil Comics #18. Daredevil wears a yellow and blue uniform in this story. In correspondence with Jerry Bails, Rico told Jerry that he had scripted the first Daredevil story.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Feature(s): Lance Hale
Character(s): Lance Hale; Jackie; Yamba (an elephant); Brad (villain, death)
First Line: After destroying the monster in the city, Lance Hale wanders into the jungles of deep Africa, to do battle with the ivory raiders.
Synopsis: After having destroyed the monster in the city, Lance heads into the jungle to do battle with ivory raiders. He sees a young boy being threatened by a lion. After saving him, a series of events leads the pair to the cabin of the ivory raiders and a fight ensues.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagFlashback #27 published January 1974
In Content Item: FlagSilver Streak Archives Featuring the Original Daredevil #1 published June 2012
as The Ivory Raiders [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: The Who's Who states that three artists worked on this strip in 1940: Jack Binder (this isn't by him), Mac Raboy and John Hampton.
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The Spook Strikes Back

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: aviation, mystery
Feature(s): Ace Powers
Character(s): Ace Powers; Panther Man (villain, death); Spook (villain, death)
Synopsis: Ace has overcome the Four Madmen and has called the Police in to recover their bodies. When they arrive, only three bodies are found, and Ace realizes that Panther Man has escaped. He finds him being murdered by the Spook, and must battle the Skeleton Men to reach him in time.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagFlashback #27 published January 1974
In Content Item: FlagSilver Streak Archives Featuring the Original Daredevil #1 published June 2012
as The Spook Strikes Back [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Story in printed in red, black and white. Anderson is credited on this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who, and the faces with the sharp arched upper eyelid, long thin eyebrows, and a small inkline under the outer corner of the eyes, are certain signs of Anderson. Also the closed hands with short lines between fingers, and a marked line under the cheeks. Look at the face in the last panel. Anderson drew Lance O'Casey, Nyoka and Red Gaucho. This story is the only one he drew of Ace Powers.
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Throwing Snowballs Caused the Boston Massacre

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, non-fiction
Feature(s): Momentous Mites
Synopsis: Illustrated re-telling of the events of March 5, 1770.
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In Issue: FlagFlashback #27 published January 1974
In Content Item: FlagSilver Streak Archives Featuring the Original Daredevil #1 published June 2012
as Throwing Snowballs Caused the Boston Massacre! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Story is printed in red, black and white. The art IS signed....hard to make all of it out, but it appears to be "Gardinbirg", "Gardinking" or something like that.
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The Starfish Men of the Water Planet

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Planet Patrol
Character(s): Planet Patrol [Captain Ken Keen; Nirma]; Star-Fish Men (villains, all die)
Synopsis: While on patrol one day near a weird planet, Nirma starts feeling faint and Captain Keen wonders if the planet is responsible. Diving under water, they come into contact with the Star-Fish Men, whose leader captures the duo and informs Keen that he can guide the water-planet through the universe, robbing and conquering as they go.
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In Issue: FlagFlashback #27 published January 1974
In Content Item: FlagSilver Streak Archives Featuring the Original Daredevil #1 published June 2012
as The Starfish Men of the Water Planet [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
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The Sky Bug

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Dickie Dean, the Boy Inventor
Character(s): Dickie Dean; Zip; Mr. Dean (head of Dean Chemical Plant, Dickie's father); Mrs. Dean; Mr. Crawley (villain, President of Zepher Aeroplane Factory, death)
Synopsis: When a plane crashes into Dickie's father's business, destroying it, Dickie tries to figure out a way he can help his parents financially. So he builds a weird type of aircraft that flies thanks to a repelling magnet, and markets the concept to the President of the Zepher Aeroplane Factory. Unfortunately, Crawley wants the invention for free and is willing to kill Dickie and Zip to get it.
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In Issue: FlagFlashback #27 published January 1974
In Content Item: FlagSilver Streak Archives Featuring the Original Daredevil #1 published June 2012
as The Sky Bug [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7.5
Disclose Notes: The last half of page 8 is titled "Dickie Dean's Workshop", an illustrated page showing readers how to build the smallest zoo in the world.
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How to Build the Smallest Zoo in the World!!

Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Dickie Dean] (signed)
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: nature, non-fiction
Feature(s): Dickie Dean's Workshop
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.5
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The Fight for Fun!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Pat; Mike; un-named Policeman; un-named newsstand employee
Synopsis: Pat and Mike find a dime laying on the sidealk and begin to fight over it. But a Policeman comes along and finds out the boys need the dime to buy the latest issues of Sure-Fire Comics and Super-Mystery Comics. The cop gives the boys a dime and each get their comic, while he decided to buy both issues himself!
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In Content Item: FlagSilver Streak Archives Featuring the Original Daredevil #1 published June 2012
as The Fight for Fun! [Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Found on the inside back cover.
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[untitled]

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Synopsis: Illustrated ad from Remington Rand, Incorporated, advertizing a desk set for $1 with the purchase of a Remington Delux Noiseless Deluxe Portable Typewriter.
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In Content Item: FlagSilver Streak Archives Featuring the Original Daredevil #1 published June 2012
as [untitled] [Advertisement on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Found on the back cover. Ad is printed in red, black and white.

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