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Issue: Daredevil Comics #4 Public Domain
Publication Date: October 1941
 
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Publisher: FlagLev Gleason
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: New Friday Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 09/05/1941
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 15 (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. 4.
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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
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Death is the Referee!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Subject Matter
superhero
Daredevil [Bart Hill]; Tonia Saunders; Hans Meyer
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Daredevil Presents 10 Smash Features

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Daredevil [Bart Hill]
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Found on the inside front cover.

TOC losting the 10 features included in the magazine with super brief synopses and a head view of Daredevil. It lists Charles Biro and Bob Wood as Editors.
Death Is the Referee

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
superhero
Daredevil [Bart Hill]; Tonia Saunders; Sue Smith (fiancee of Jeff); Jeff Hart; un-named yacht Captain; Hans Meyer (villain, dictator of the island, death)
Sue and Jeff are taking their yacht to an uncharted island in the Pacific Ocean for their honeymoon and invite Bart and Tonia to accompany them. Unfortunately, when they are shipwrecked on the island, they face a cruel dictator who is out to kill all the men and make one the ladies his wife.
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Story title taken from the cover. Story inspired by "The Most Dangerous Game".

The last panels gives the title to next issue's story: "Dead Men Can Talk".
Pardons for Cash

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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superhero
Daredevil [Bart Hill]; un-named prison guard; Captain Mellon (of the F.B.I.); Jonathan C. Shultz (villain, death); Sapone (villain)
Racket king Shultz waits for the prison baseball team to take the field, with him keeping score, in order to make an ingenious prison break at just the right time.
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The last section of page 3 features the illustrated "Daredevil's Punch-of-the-Month," which spotlights "The Solar Plexus Punch Just Below the Ribs", describing how to effectively deliver this crippling blow.
The Claw In Captivity!!!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Bob Wood (signed)
Bob Wood (signed)
Bob Wood (signed)
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Subject Matter
superhero
The Claw
The Claw (villain); Bill Hopkins; Jean Hopkins; Mrs. Hopkins (Jean's mother); Fu (villain, one of the Claw's agents)
The Claw is captured and brought to New York City in chains, kept in a special holding area at the Central Park Zoo until a massive prison can be built to house him. However, the villain escapes and looks for Bill and Jean Hopkins to exact his revenge.
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In Glory Canyon

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
adventure
Pat Patriot [Patricia Patrios]; Chester Wood (introduction); un-named Sheriff; Butternose (villain, ranch hand, introduction)
Yippie! My old friend Chester Wood - has invited me to his ranch -[...]
Pat's old friend, Chester Wood, invites her to come out to his ranch near Glory Canyon, where he is in charge of building the Glory Dam. After she arrives, Woods advises her that unknown parties have been attempting to destroy the dam as it supplies vital electricity to vital defense industries.
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The Archives edition lists Reed Crandall as artist, but the Who's Who doesn't indicate that Crandall drew this strip. But it does state that Borth did illustrate the strip in 1941 and this is his art style (just as he did the Phantom Lady).

Oddity: Pat is shown alternately with and without her cape.
Fu Tong

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
superhero
Nightro
Nightro [Hugh Goddard]; Blackie (Goddard's dog); Fong (villain, introduction); Lee Tang (villain, introduction); un-named other gang members (villains, introduction for all)
Reading about the loss of a fourteenth Navy pilot, Hugh Goddard realizes that the pilots were better pilots than that, and chooses to investigate. He discovers that the pilots were suckered into landing their planes near a decoy plane, where they were captured.
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Rossi the Racketeer

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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adventure, western
Real American Number One
The Bronze Terror [Jeff Dixon]; White Falcon; Rossi (villain, introduction, death); Butch (villain, introduction); Stella (villain, introduction); other un-named gang members (villains, introduction for all)
Rossi and his gang come to the city of Redfield, where they set up a new atraction: an amusement center comprised of crooked gambling machines.
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The Mystery Sub

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
adventure
Dash Dillon at Hale
Dash Dillon; Carrie; Socko; Dean Roberts; President Franklin D. Roosevelt (cameo); un-named German U-Boat Commander (villain); other un-named Nazis (villains)
Dash is told by the dean of the college that he must pass his German exam on Friday or be ineligible for the football team, just as a radio broadcast tells of the sinking of a U.S. ship by a German submarine. When Dash rounds up the crew of the sub, the President of the United Sates presents Dash with the Distinguished Service Cross.
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Script credit from Archive reprint.
The Glass Gargoyle

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
superhero
Thirteen [Harold Higgins]; Officer Casey (Policeman); Arthur C. Yates (villain, explorer and lecturer, introduction); Compello (villain, introduction, death); Inky (villain)
Higgins decides to go to the museum to see the famed Egyptian Buddha that has gruesome tradegies associated with it. While he's there, a gang of crooks enter and make off with the exhibit which contains a key to an Egyptian code.
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[untitled]

Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Puzzle Fun
Jack Bunny; Jim Panzee; Mrs. Hen
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Page contains six different activities for the reader to do, including finding seven intentional mistakes in a drawing and finding hidden pictures.
The Submarine Signaller

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
superhero
London
London [Marc Holmes]; Prime Minister Winston Churchill (cameo); Bland (villain, introduction); The Nazis (villains)
A rather unique voyage occurs, the ship carrying a diplomat, a condemned criminal, an aspiring playright and a fading movie actress all on the trail of a ship sunk by a German U-Boat.
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Script credit from Jerry Robinson.
The New Manager

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
adventure
Whirlwind The Blonde Bomber
Whirlwind [Terry Turner]; Tim (Terry's fight manager); Jackie Wings (fight promoter, introduction); Atwood (Tim's attorney); Dobbs (Wing's butler); Mr. Shaeffer (fight promoter); Mauler Murphy (boxer)
Terry's contract is placed in the hands of his fighter manager's attorney, who informs the boxer that he is to report to Westchester to help with an "Aid For Britain" boxing exhibition.
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Get It On Your Newsstand Now

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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typeset
Subject Matter
Captain Battle [Jonathan Battle]; Hale Battle
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Illustrated promotional advertisement for Captain Battle Comics #1 with cover pictured.
Free Focusing Power Telescope With This Offer

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Found on the back cover.

Illustrated advertisement from Metro Publications, who offer readers a free telescope with their purchase of a book titled "Scientific Wonders of the World" for only $1.98. Has coupon.

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