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Issue: Daredevil Comics #2 Public Domain
Publication Date: August 1941
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Issues: #2 of 134 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagLev Gleason
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Your Guide Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 05/27/1941
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 14 (10 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Bob Wood
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: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Daredevil [Bart Hill]; The Claw (inset)
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In Content Item: FlagThe Original Daredevil Archives #1 published June 2013
as Daredevil Comics #2 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
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In Content Item: FlagThe Original Daredevil Archives #1 published June 2013
as In This Issue... [Table of Contents on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Found on the inside front cover.

Lists all 10 features inside the book with super brief synopses.

Also lists the Editors as Charles Biro and Bob Wood.
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The Kiss of Death

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Daredevil [Bart Hill]; Tonia Saunders (Bart's girl friend); Dr. Pierce (introduction, death); Rving (Pierce's driver); Joe (Policeman); Princess Sheba (villain, introduction, death)
Synopsis: Forty years after he and his partner discovered the tomb of Princess Sheba, Dr. Pierce, knowing the Princess was buried alive, discovers a secret hidden inside the golden cobra buried with her: a serum which can bring her back to life!
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In Content Item: FlagThe Original Daredevil Archives #1 published June 2013
as The Kiss of Death [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
Disclose Notes: The splash page features the "Seal of the Princess Sheba".
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Introducing the Whirlwind

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): The Whirlwind
Character(s): The Whirlwind [Terry Turner] (introduction, a boxer); Mr. Turner (introduction); Bonnie (introduction, Terry's girl friend); Jean Jacques (villain, lumberjack, introduction); Dolores [also as Delores] (villain, introduction); Monte (villain, fight promoter, introduction)
Synopsis: Terry Turner is taking on an inhuman brute named Jean Jacques for the heavyweight championship, and learns that two swindlers, who tricked his Dad into signing some papers, are asking Terry to take a dive in the fight, or else his Dad will go up the river.
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In Content Item: FlagThe Original Daredevil Archives #1 published June 2013
as Introducing the Whirlwind [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Nightro, the Streamlined Robin Hood
Character(s): Nightro [Hugh Goddard] (introduction, scientist, origin); Dr. Miller (introduction); Hoag (villain, introduction); Tollini (villain, introduction)
First Line: Some men would come out of the experience described here with guns blazing.
Synopsis: Two unscrupulous miners, having discovered a vein of pitchblend (or radium), have their find confirmed by scientist, Hugh Goddard. But when Hugh suggests turning the discovery over to the Cancer Cure Foundation, the greedy miners club Hugh and depart with their discovery, leaving Goddard abandoned in the Alaska wilderness with little hope of survival.
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In Content Item: FlagThe Original Daredevil Archives #1 published June 2013
as The Streamlined Robinhood [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Writer verified by Michael Gilbert.

Nightro, who becomes snow blind, can see again with the use of polaroid lenses in his glasses, something strangely familar when one looks at how DC's Dr. Mid-Nite could see with infra-red lenses.
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Baseball Beginnings

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Dash Dillon at Hale
Character(s): Dash Dillon (introduction, medical student); Coach Taylor; Lynn Taylor (the baseball coach's daughter); Tony (Dash's friend);
Synopsis: The baseball team at Hale University is doing poorly and Coach Taylor is in danger of losing his job. However, his daughter suggests to Dash Dillon that he join the team since he is such a great pitcher and hitter.......and his talents may be enough to turn things around and save her Dad's job.
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In Content Item: FlagThe Original Daredevil Archives #1 published June 2013
as Baseball Beginnings [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
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The Coming of the Pioneer

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bob Wood
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Pioneer, Champion of America
Character(s): The Pioneer (introduction, origin); The Boss (villain); Joe (villain); Scotty (villain)
Synopsis: The Pioneer hears a crash and discovers a wrecked car with injured men at the bottom of a gorge. He nurses them back to health, not realizing that they are escaped killers!
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In Content Item: FlagThe Original Daredevil Archives #1 published June 2013
as The Coming of the Pioneer [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Only appearance, even though the last panel says that the Pioneer will return in the next issue.

Writer confirmed by Michael Gilbert.

When the artist signed his name, below it it reads "Copr. 1941 The Freelance".
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Daredevil on "Defense"

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Charles Biro ? [as Daredevil] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Daredevil [Bart Hill]; Polas (half-breed cafe owner in San Francisco); Sin Lee (Chinese); Nick Mondello (villain, death?); un-named assistant to Mondello (villain)
Synopsis: While investigating illegal alien entries, Daredevil visits a small cafe in San Francisco and learns about a brutal man named Nick Mondello, who is behind the wave of smuggled aliens into the area.
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In Content Item: FlagThe Original Daredevil Archives #1 published June 2013
as Daredevil on "Defense" [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: The last part of page two has a feature mastheaded "Daredevil's Punch-of-the-Month", with title "The Left-Hook", plus an illustration of Daredevil. Daredevil explains when the punch is usually used and how it is delivered.
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Origin of the Bronze Terror

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, sports
Feature(s): Real American #1
Character(s): The Bronze Terror [Jeff Dixon] (introduction, son of an Indian Chief, lawyer, origin); White Falcon (introduction, Jeff's father); Lilly (introduction, Jeff's childhood sweetheart); un-named Sheriff; un-named aide to the Chief (death); Mr. Welch (villain, crooked lawyer); Judge Hawks (villain); Zeke (villain, death); Scar Thornton (villain, introduction)
Synopsis: Unscrupulous renegade Scar Thornton fills the Indians with liquor and fleeces them of their money on crooked games of chance. When the Chief of the tribe appears and tells all of his tribal members to go home, Scar takes offense and vows to kill the Indian.
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In Content Item: FlagThe Original Daredevil Archives #1 published June 2013
as Origin of the Bronze Terror [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 6
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London Can Take It!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): London
Character(s): London [Marc Holmes] (introduction); Dian (introduction); Prime Minister Winston Churchill; Admiral Hawkins; Dian (Prime Minister's niece); Franz (villain); the Nazis (villains)
Synopsis: A prisoner in a concentration camp, Franz escapes with the help of Dian and makes his way to London, where he is greeted and lauded by the Prime Minister himself. However, Holmes smells a rat, and that rat turns out to be Franz himself, who kidnaps Churchill and is in the process of taking him to see Hitler himself when he is stopped by Holmes.
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In Content Item: FlagThe Original Daredevil Archives #1 published June 2013
as London Can Take It [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: The Who's Who and Robinson verify his writing his creation as well as illustrating it.
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Origin of Pat Patriot

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bob Wood [as Chuck Woodro] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Pat Patriot, America's Joan of Arc
Character(s): Pat Patriot [Patricia Patrios] (introduction, origin); Mike Brown (introduction, Pat's boy friend); un-named foreman (villain, introduction)
Synopsis: Pat is fired from her job at the Mallison Airplane Plant by a less than friendly foreman and appears in a play later that evening, garbed in a rather patriotic costume. Later, when she discovers that her former foreman is smuggling airplane engines to the enemy, she steps forward to stop his activities.
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In Content Item: FlagThe Original Daredevil Archives #1 published June 2013
as Origin of Pat Patriot [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: The Who's Who lists no writer or artist named Chuck Woodrow. The pen name "Chuck Woodro" on this strip refers to writers Charles Biro and Bob Wood.

The Archives edition lists Reed Crandall as artist, but the Who's Who doesn't indicate that Crandall drew this strip. However, the Who's Who does verify that Frank Borth did in 1941 and the art style matches his work of that time on the Phantom Lady.
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World's Worst Villain

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): The Claw
Character(s): The Claw (villain); Daredevil [Bart Hill] (cameo); Mrs. Hopkins (introduction, Jean's mother); Bill Hopkins (introduction, an engineer, Jean's brother); Jean Hopkins [aka known as Jean Rogers] (introduction, secretary); Bea (Jean's co-worker); Dick Hopkins (introduction, Jean's other brother); President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Synopsis: After leaving work, Jean Rogers reads in the paper that her brother Dick is missing after an entire trainload of men enroute for Army maneuvers has vanished. Meanwhile, President Roosevelt receives a letter from the Claw stating that he has those men held prisoner, and unless the President grants trhe Claw full control of the nation's gold supply, the men await a horrible fate!
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In Content Item: FlagThe Original Daredevil Archives #1 published June 2013
as World's Worst Villain [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
Disclose Notes: The last panel gives the title of next issue's story: "The Battle of the Centuries!".
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New - Sensational

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Captain Battle Comics
Character(s): Captain Battle [Jonathan Battle]
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In Content Item: FlagThe Original Daredevil Archives #1 published June 2013
as [untitled] [Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Illustrated promotional advertisement for Captain Battle Comics #1 (no cover pictured), which lists the titles of the three Captain Battle stories, with synopses, and other ballyhoo.
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Best of Them All!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Silver Streak Comics
Character(s): Silver Streak [unknown taxi cab driver]; Meteor [Mickey O'Toole]; Daredevil [Bart Hill]; Captain Battle [Jonathan Battle]; Hale Battle
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In Content Item: FlagThe Original Daredevil Archives #1 published June 2013
as Best of Them All! [Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Found on the back cover.

Illustrated promotional advertisement for the latest issue of Silver Streak Comics, picturing the main characters in the book.

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