Dates
- Cover date
- August 1944
- On sale
- June 13, 1944
- Pages
- 52
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- Aesop's Modern Fables · 12 pages
An escaped prisoner named Johnny Aesop, ribbed when he was younger about his last name, decides to commit crimes based on the ancient fables to gain wealth and notoriety.
- The Baseball Barrage · 5 pages
- Blunderbuss Booty! · 10 pages
The Vigilante and Stuff attend the parole board meeting for The Dummy, who claims he is rehabilitated. The Vigilante decides he ought to have another chance, providing he pays back the loot from the last robbery he committed. So, The Dummy opens up a swap shop and appears to be going straight. A thief calling himself The Lash breaks into the Robertson home and steals an old blunderbuss. He then continues to steal blunderbusses, and when Vigilante and Stuff give chase they find themselves near The Dummy's swap shop. They later pursue The Lash and find that he and The Dummy are in cahoots.
- Money Talks · 2 pages
- Frame Up in Fur! · 6 pages
Working for the North Star Fur Company, Bill captures a gang of fur thieves working right under the police's nose.
- The Sting of Death! · 8 pages
Visiting his old friend Dick Pack, Zatara finds him in mortal fear of "The Sting of Death". To escape the curse a ransom of $50,000 is demanded. At the subsequent party one of the guests is a maharajah. Zatara unravels his turban to reveal a hive filled with angry robber wasps, their stings dipped in deadly cobra venom.
- Joe Jam · 1 pages
Reprinted in
Superman: The Action Comics Archives (1997), Superman: The Golden Age Omnibus (2013)