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Star Spangled Comics 5

STAR SPANGLED COMICS #5

Cover Date: February 1942
Cover Price: $.10

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Cover Credits:
Art: Hal Sherman (Signed)


Story: [No Title] (17 Pages)

Credits:

StoryJerry Siegel
ArtHal Sherman
LetteringHal Sherman
EditingWhitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Star-Spangled Kid (last in Leading Comics #1; next in the second story in this issue)
Stripesy (last in Leading Comics #1; next in the second story in this issue)

Villain(s):

Moonglow (Egbert Whipple; first appearance; a thin sickly Professor of Physics; creates a helmet that increases his intelligence, but also his evil tendencies under a full moon; next in issue #9/2)
Chips (first appearance; gang leader who is killed by Moonglow and his gang taken over)

Location(s):

Southeastern University

Comment(s):

This story takes place over several weeks.


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Second Story: [No Title] (8 Pages)

Credits:

StoryJerry Siegel
ArtHal Sherman
LetteringHal Sherman
EditingWhitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Star-Spangled Kid (between the first and sixth stories in this issue)
Stripesy (between the first and sixth stories in this issue)

Supporting Character(s):

John Pemberton
Gloria Pemberton

Villain(s):

Doctor Weerd (uses special chemical flares to weaken steel)


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Third Story: [No Title] (8 Pages)

Credits:

StoryEd Moore
ArtEd Moore
LetteringEd Moore
EditingWhitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Armstrong of the Army

Villain(s):

A Charter boat captain (first appearance; selling ship schedules to Germans)


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Fourth Story: [No Title] (8 Pages)

Credits:

StoryManly Wade Wellman
ArtHal Sharp
LetteringHal Sharp
EditingWhitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Tarantula

Supporting Character(s):

Olga (between issue #1/3 and #7/2)

Villain(s):

Siva (first appearance; a crimelord who dresses as the Indian god Siva)
Ganesha (first appearance; minion of Siva with a large elephant head costume)
Mike Delany (first appearance; a rival crimeboss; poses as Ganesha)


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Fifth Story: [No Title] (8 Pages)

Credits:

StoryJon L. Blummer
ArtJon L. Blummer
LetteringJon L. Blummer
EditingWhitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Captain X

Supporting Character(s):

Stuffy

Villain(s):

Nazis (first appearance for all; use a new "tankboat")

Location(s):

London, England
Kent, England
Suez Canal, Egypt


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Sixth Story: [No Title] (10 Pages)

Credits:

StoryJerry Siegel
ArtHal Sherman
LetteringHal Sherman
EditingWhitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Star-Spangled Kid (last in the second story in this issue)
Stripesy (last in the second story in this issue)

Supporting Character(s):

John Pemberton
Gloria Pemberton

Villain(s):

Needle (last in Leading Comics #1; next in issue #7/6)
Legetta (first appearance; an insurance agent who tries to steal the Star of Dehli and frame the Needle)


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