Issue Contents:
Characters
- Nightmaster
Credits
- Pencils: Joe Kubert
- Inks: Joe Kubert
- Letters: Gaspar Saladino (uncertain)
Story Notes
New logo design begins with this issue.
Some Forbidden Fate
"You do not understand it, do you, Jim Rook?"
Storyline
Jim is transported to a magic dimension, and told that he is descended from an ancient hero. The elderly king needs Jim to use that ancestor's sword and fight the king's enemies. Jim wants only to return home, until told that his girl friend was also transported. She is now held by the king's enemies, and Jim must fight his way to her.
Characters
- Nightmaster [Jim Rook] (introduction, origin)
- Janet Jones (girl friend)
- thugs
- King Zolto
- Nacht (in flashback)
- Brom (in flashback)
- Farben (in flashback)
- Boz
- Warlocks
- the Ice Witch. (First appearance of all characters)
Credits
- Script: Denny O'Neil
- Pencils: Jerry Grandenetti
- Inks: Dick Giordano
- Letters: Shelly Leferman (uncertain)
Story Notes
Story across 23 pages, but pages 7 and 23 are 2/3 pages and page 14 is a 1/2-page.
Take That, You Hideous Magician, You!
#7: Detective Comics #27 (May, 1939)
Featuring Fact File
"The comics readers of thirty yeas ago always could depend upon getting a good buy for their money whenever they picked up a copy of Detective Comics."
Characters
- Batman