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Issue: Silver Streak Comics #12 Public Domain
Publication Date: July 1941
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Issues: #12 of 23 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagLev Gleason
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: New Friday Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 05/15/1941
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 18 (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, 1941, New Series, Vol. 36, 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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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Daredevil [Bart Hill]; Captain Battle [Jonathan Hale] (inset); Silver Streak [unknown taxi cab driver] (inset)
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In Issue: FlagSilver Streak Archives Featuring the Original Daredevil #2 published December 2012
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Pages: 1
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Join Captain Battle's Boys' Brigade!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Captain Battle's Boys' Brigade
Character(s): Captain Battle [Jonathan Battle]
Synopsis: Illustrated promotional advertisement for Captain Battle's Boys' Brigade, the Defenders of American Democracy! Readers are to mail in the attached Boy's Brigade coupon with 10 cents, and they will receive the membership card and official badge in the mail.
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In Issue: FlagSilver Streak Archives Featuring the Original Daredevil #2 published December 2012
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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Bargains in Murder

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Daredevil [Bart Hill]; Tonia Saunders (Bart's fiancee); District Attorney Wayne (death); Judge Harkins (villain); The Murder Syndicate [Porky Porter (chief); Chopper Lane (the executioner); Mysteriouis Figure in Black] (villains, introduction for all); Slug (villain); Eric Sinhart ? (villain)
Synopsis: The Murder Syndicate gets the job of bumping off the district attorney and succeeds. However, Bart spots the Chopper and eventually rounds him up as well as the chief, Porky Porter, as Daredevil. But a mysterious figure in black and his fellow felons show up at the courtroom, tosses in tear gas, and rescues the two criminals, capturing Daredevil in the process.
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In Issue: FlagSilver Streak Archives Featuring the Original Daredevil #2 published December 2012
In Issue: FlagL'âge merveilleux des Comics #5 published ?
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
Disclose Notes: The last panel of the story tells of Daredevil's next foe, the Spymaster (shown in next to last panel of this story?), and gives the titles of next issue's story: "The Affair of the Scarlet Skull."
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The Treasure Hunters

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 Todd; Tod (Zip's uncle); Cranky Andy (villain, death); Andy's gang (villains)
Synopsis: Dickie and Zip are on summer vacation from school and decide to visit Zip's fisherman Uncle Tod, who can't understand why the fish have been dying......fish he needs to catch for a living. Dickie turns the Sky-Sub into a walking submarine, and he and Zip go underwater to investigate. They find the reason why the fish are dying and spot the mast of an old treasure ship......a ship that one of Uncle Tod's rivals is interested in.
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In Issue: FlagSilver Streak Archives Featuring the Original Daredevil #2 published December 2012
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: The last 1/3 of page 8 is devoted to Dickie Dean's Invention Corner, and features the invention of Jerry Young of Urbana, Illinois: a home-made picture projector.
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The Race against Death --

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Silver Streak and Mercury, the Boy Speed King
Character(s): Silver Streak [an unknown taxi cab driver]; Mercury; The Invaders (villains, many die)
Synopsis: The Streak and Mercury head to China to help save the imperiled village of San Cho from the enemy invaders.
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In Issue: FlagSilver Streak Archives Featuring the Original Daredevil #2 published December 2012
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: The Who's Who indicates that Richards was an artist only on this strip. The last panel of the story gives the title of the next story: "The Adventure of the Laughing Hyena".
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Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): David B. Icove
Penciller(s): David B. Icove
Inker(s): David B. Icove
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Can You Solve These?
Character(s): Joe; Leo; Eddy
Synopsis: Various illustrated activities for the readers to solve include a animal cross-word puzzle, the dwarf's problem, and two brain teasers. The solution to all of these is provided.
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Pages: 1
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Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): David B. Icove
Penciller(s): David B. Icove
Inker(s): David B. Icove
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Can You Answer These?
Synopsis: Readers are asked to take a Quick Quiz of six questions, plus find the answers to nine illustrated posers, such as: what makes a baseball curve, what state has more than 10,000 lakes, and so on. Answers are provided.
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In Issue: FlagSilver Streak Archives Featuring the Original Daredevil #2 published December 2012
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Pages: 1
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The Forbidden Valley of Ka-Zor

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, jungle
Feature(s): Lance Hale
Character(s): Lance Hale; un-named cave-man and his family
Synopsis: Lance decides to explore the forbidden Valley of Ka-Zor, surrounded on all sides by steep cliffs, and never explored by man. There he meets a cave-man and his family, saving them from various prehistoric creatures.
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In Issue: FlagSilver Streak Archives Featuring the Original Daredevil #2 published December 2012
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Pages: 5
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): David B. Icove [as D. B. Icove] (signed)
Penciller(s): David B. Icove [as D. B. Icove] (signed)
Inker(s): David B. Icove [as D. B. Icove] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, sports
Feature(s): Chubby Chump
Character(s): Chubby Chump; un-named umpire
First Line: Oh boy, what a sock!
Synopsis: In a baseball game, with the manager threatening to trade him to another team, Chubby hits a long ball and rounds all the bases, sliding into home for an apparent home run. That is, until the ump tells him that he had yelled foul ball on the play!
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In Issue: FlagSilver Streak Archives Featuring the Original Daredevil #2 published December 2012
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Pages: 1
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): various
Inker(s): various
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?; most typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Daredevil [Bart Hill]; The Claw; Nightro [Hugh Goddard]; London [Marc Holmes]; The Whirlwind [Terry Turner]; The Pioneer; The Bronze Terror [Jeff Dixon]
Synopsis: Illustrated publisher promotional advertisement for Daredevil Comics #2, with cover reproduced, on sale June 20, 1941, and featuring twelve smash features (some illustrated w/text blurbs).
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: The centerfold of this issue.
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Introducing Hale Battle

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): Jack Binder (signed)
Inker(s): Jack Binder (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Captain Battle [Jonathan Hale]; Hale Battle [formerly Nathan Hale; later Captain Battle Jr.] (introduction); The Black Dragon (villain); Deaglo Birdmen [Major Ling Fu] (villains, all reform); the Thibetan Hoods (villains)
Synopsis: Captain Battle works feverishly in his lab, trying to turn the bewitched birdmen of the Black Dragon back into human beings. He succeeds with one of them, Major Ling Fu, who agrees to help the Captain against his foes, and together, they fly to the Dragon's Castle, and succeed in freeing the other birdmen from their bewitching. He discovers that one of the Deaglos is a young boy named Nathan Hale, who helps Battle fight the Thibetan Hoods, who capture young Hale and attempt to sacrifice him to their god Moko.
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In Issue: FlagSilver Streak Archives Featuring the Original Daredevil #2 published December 2012
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
Disclose Notes: Continued in the next issue.
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Boomerang! or The Bandit's Thwarted Revenge: Part 5

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): Jack Binder (Illustrations)
Inker(s): Jack Binder (Illustrations)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Feature(s): The Silver Scout and His Horse Lucifer
Character(s): The Silver Scout [originally known as The Silver Ranger]; Lucifer (the Scout's horse); Rose (school teacher); Manuel's wife; un-named Sheriff; Rodrigo (villain, renegade bandit)
Synopsis: The Scout and Lucifer answer to the screams of a young school teacher from Roaring Falls, kidnapped and being abused by the renegade bandito from Mexico, Rodrigo, but is promptly captured by the outlaw's men. They head for the bandit's camp on the American side of the border before journeying on to Mexico the next day and get roaring drunk. During the night, Rose is freed by a woman whose son was killed by Rodrigo, who then frees the Scout, who rounds up the bandit and his cut-throats.
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In Issue: FlagSilver Streak Archives Featuring the Original Daredevil #2 published December 2012
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Pages: 3
Disclose Notes: Oddity: The Scout's horse is white, yet the text calls him coal-black.
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The Tolarian Kidnappers

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): Jack Binder (signed)
Inker(s): Jack Binder (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, aviation
Feature(s): Cloud Curtis and His Golden Bullet
Character(s): Cloud Curtis; Lem Anderson; "Crusher" McCoy; "Pop" Whistler; Mike (news reporter); Co-ordinator of Defense [Kutsden]; Tolarians (villains)
Synopsis: Cloud's friend, Lem, has invented a new type of bomb and Cloud agrees to test it, and if it is worthy, he'll talk to the Army about it. Before he can take off in the Golden Bullet, a news reporter informs Cloud that the U.S. Defense Co-ordinator has been kidnapped by the Tolarians, and Cloud is the only one to get him back safely without anyone being the wiser.
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Pages: 5
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Captain Blooze's Whaler Scam

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, war
Feature(s): The Pirate Prince
Character(s): The Pirate Prince; Captain Blooz (villain, slave-runner)
Synopsis: The Prince runs across Captain Blooz again, who tries to convince him that he no longer a slave-runner, but a whaler. But a fire aboard Blooz's ship reveals hidden slaves, and Blooz is captured and handed over to the slaves, who are returned to Africa by the Prince. As for Blooz, he becomes a slave to the ex-slaves.
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In Issue: FlagSilver Streak Archives Featuring the Original Daredevil #2 published December 2012
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Pages: 5
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The Capture of Simon Girty

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: historical
Feature(s): Dan Dearborn
Character(s): Dan Dearborn; Jerry; Scar-Face Dykes (villain, mentioned only); Simon Girty (villain); the Indians (villains)
Synopsis: Dan is saved from torture by the Indians by Sam Girty, leader of the dreaded "White Savages", but discovers that Jerry has followed Dan and has been nabbed by Sam. He is able to save the boy and turn the tables on Girty's "White Savages" and they are captured.....but Sam somehow escapes.
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In Issue: FlagSilver Streak Archives Featuring the Original Daredevil #2 published December 2012
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Continued from last issue.
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The Unbelievable Case of the Lady Killer!!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bob Wood (signed)
Penciller(s): Bob Wood (signed)
Inker(s): Bob Wood (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Presto Martin Master of Quick Disguise
Character(s): Presto Bill Martin [also as the Lady Killer]; Miss Kent (Martin's secretary); Betty (actress); Jack Jenkins (sports cartoonist, Betty's boy friend); un-named Police Commissioner; The Lady Killer (villain, introduction)
Synopsis: Presto must face and defeat a disguised, cloaked adversary who has taken to killing, beating and brutally murdering beautiful young girls.
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In Issue: FlagSilver Streak Archives Featuring the Original Daredevil #2 published December 2012
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: The last panel reveals the name of next issue's story: "Riddle of the Missing Bullet".
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Here's Captain Battle!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): Jack Binder
Inker(s): Jack Binder
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Captain Battle [Jonathan Battle]
Synopsis: Illustrated promotional advertisement, assuring readers that the good Captain himself will visit their neighborhood soon. But, in the meantime, they are to go to their local newsstand and pick up the newest issue of Captain Battle Comics, on sale June 27, 1941. Also, readers are asked whether or not they have joined Captain Battle's Boys' Brigade
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In Issue: FlagSilver Streak Archives Featuring the Original Daredevil #2 published December 2012
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Found on the inside back cover.
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[untitled]

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Daredevil [Bart Hill]
Synopsis: Illustrated promotional advertisement asking readers to pick up the newest issue of Daredevil Comics (#2), on sale June 20, 1941.
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In Issue: FlagSilver Streak Archives Featuring the Original Daredevil #2 published December 2012
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Found on the back cover.

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