Silver Streak Comics #11

Dates

Cover date

June 1941

On sale

April 17, 1941

Pages

68

Editions and covers

• Original edition

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Creators

Stories

• Great Peril · 9 pages

  Jonathan is taken by surprise by the Deaglos in his laboratory, but falls unconscious through a trap door unseen. However, the strange birdmen succeed in securing some of Battle's inventions and kidnap Jane for good measure so that she can become the Queen for the Black Dragon.

• Daredevil vs. the Claw [Part 5] · 9 pages

  Frustrated by defeats at the hands of Daredevil, the Claw ventures to the inferno to seek Lucifer's aid against Daredevil. Lucifer agrees with one condition: if Daredevil wins again, then the Claw will be banished into Asia forever.

• Laffs · 1 pages

  Series of 16 assorted gags, some illustrated, including a 4-panel strip.

• Bok, King of Slavers · The Pirate Prince · 5 pages

  Bok forces a local shipmaker to construct a special ship for his use in slave smuggling, but when he refuses, all of the shipmaker's fleet is destroyed by fire. He then agrees to build the ship with a double hull, that will effectively hide the whereabouts of slaves aboard the ship.....or so it is thought!

• Kelly the Cop · 1 pages

  Kelly hears a commotion and finds Beansie and Felix going at it.

• Dickie Dean Boy Inventor Fights the Gadget Octopus · Dickie Dean Boy Inventor · 7 pages

  After saving the life of a young boy with his Sky Bug, Dickie speaks with the boy's father and comments that there is no safe play area for children in the community. When Dickie suggests using the old amusement park grounds as a possible site, Mr. Tagle gives the property to Dickie to fix up. However, the evil Professor Skinn intends to stop such efforts.

• Lance Hale · 5 pages

  Lance follows natives and their kidnapped female back to a temple in the jungle, where she is to be sacrificed. Saving her from several perils, Lance and Nellie head back to her expedition.

• The Ghost of the Domino · Presto Martin, Quick Change Artist · 5 pages

  Before Domino went to the chair for his crimes, he threatened to come back and get his revenge on those who turned state's evidence on him. Presto sees a case in the making when three of the witnesses are murdered. When Martin and Murphy check on Domino's grave, it is empty, and Martin smells a rat: a member of Domino's gang, looking to kill off Domino's gang members in order to help himself to money Domino had stashed away.

• The Red Scar, or, Prairie Justice Never Lags: Part 4 · Silver Ranger and His Wonder Horse Lucifer · 3 pages

  The Ranger comes across a prospector who has just been fatally shot, but before he dies, he gives the Ranger a map to his gold mine that he had staked in his daughter's name. The Ranger tracks the killer to the town saloon and confronts him as the cur asks the saloon keeper to lock up two bags of gold dust. Out-numbered, the Ranger dashes out of the saloon right into the Sheriff, who, along with his deputies, rounds up Barker and the others.

• The Ripper · Cloud Curtis and His Golden Bullet · 5 pages

  Cloud must battle the threat of an international spy organization, who has sent their aircraft, termed The Ripper, to attack Army flying students. Cloud, Crusher and Pop attack the Ripper, but that plane's strong magnet holds the Golden Bullet in place and returns the aircraft to the spy's headquarters, from which Cloud and friends break out of their prison, man their plane and destroy the Ripper and crew.

• Western Justice · Sheriff Jed · 1 pages

  Jed accuses Snake of the murder of Dan Leary, but finds it difficult to prove it.

• Dan Dearborn, Freedom's Son · 4 pages

  Dan and Jerry come upon a village in flames after an Indian raid and learn from one of the dying settlers that white men, led by a man named Girty, egged the Indians on to make the attack. Dan becomes a captive of the Indians and is slated to be burned at the stake when Girty shows up and Dan uses a ruse to save his life.

• Introducing Mercury, the Boy Streak · 7 pages

  Having received the Medal of Honor from President Roosevelt, the Streak heads north to New York City, where he sees a boy being manhandled. He saves the boy and endows him with the same powers he has, while, elsewhere, mobster Dutch Bultz offers to pay Wang Fo $1 million if he can eliminate Silver Streak.

Characters

Reprinted in

Silver Streak Archives Featuring the Original Daredevil (2012), Men of Mystery Comics (1999)