Dates
- Cover date
- March 1942
- On sale
- December 28, 1941
- Pages
- 68
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- The Largest Diamond in the World · 12 pages
The Black Marvel solves a case where a giant diamond in a mine in South Africa kills all who try to remove it.
- No One Is Safe · 5 pages
Davey finds that the Demon has wrecked another town, and tries again to stop him. But he is captured, and the story ends in a cliffhanger with the Demon about to drop Davey in boiling water...
- Hitler Meets the Destroyer · 15 pages
The Destroyer takes a job as a waiter at a large hotel in Berlin in order to taunt the Nazis staying there. He frees a British spy being tortured there, which causes a Nazi manhunter named von Maus to be sent to find him. The Destroyer defeats von Maus and uses his coat and hat as a disguise to get to Hitler, whom he humiliates before escaping.
- The Gems of Doom · 7 pages
The Witness sees a jewelry store robbery and traces it back to the Imp, a criminal masquerading as a law-abiding pawn shop owner.
- Death Drews · 7 pages
The Terror discovers that ships supposedly taking refugees from Europe to America are actually abducting them to Africa to build railroads for the Nazis as slave labor.
- Ghost Story · 1.75 pages
- The Thing · 7 pages
A hideous man named Dr. Fear is literally scaring citizens to death with his appearance and then robbing them. Mark Todd (in this issue described as an "amateur criminologist") tracks him down as the Blazing Skull and exposes his ruse.
- League of Crime · 8 pages
The police ask the Challenger to defeat four master criminals who have banded together as a League of Crime. The Challenger beats the gunman, strong man and fencer at their own specialties, and punches the hypnotist out during the final fight after resisting his commands.