Dates
- Cover date
- September 1941
- On sale
- July 15, 1941
- Pages
- 68
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Editions and covers
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Stories
- The Power Play of Eric Steele · 13 pages
The head of the War Bond sales department is found hanged in his office.
- The Death of Doctor Donovan · 11 pages
An inmate of the state insane asylum bolts from his room and escapes.
- The Sultan of Swami · 7 pages
Danny and Kupkake are prisoners of Pascha, and Kupkake offers to find mushrooms for the sultan if he sets them free.
- The Barrage Balloon Sabotage · 7 pages
Barrage balloons over Battersea are shot down by saboteurs.
- Flaming Mystery: Part 1 · 7 pages
Fireball joins the fire department
- The Vampire Frameup · 6 pages
George spreads the belief among the villagers that Nita, the wife of his cousin, is a vampire.
- The Boswell Incident · 6 pages
A doctor tries to convince people in a small town in Oklahoma to to take anti-cholera injections.
- The Case of the Witch's Curse · 6 pages
Bentley is in dreadful danger, as a witch is after him to kill him.
Publisher’s description
The Shield in "The Power Play of Eric Steele" – Ju Ju Watson is promoted to the top war bonds seller in the country, but his new position is threatened by a criminal organization. The increasingly influential Eric Steele plans to rise up as dictator of America—and even seeks to buyoff Shield. Now with the population split, and the hero’s reputation tarnished, is there anyone that can set things right?