Adventure Comics, #41
Published: August 1939
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Credits
- Pencils: Leo O'Mealia
- Inks: Leo O'Mealia
Story Notes
Cover pencils and inks previously attributed to Creig Flessel.
The Greatest Scoop in Comic Magazine History!
Featuring All-American Comics; Movie Comics
"Be sure to read the first installment of "The American Way," featuring Frederic March, which begins in this month's issue of All-American Comic, now on sale at all newsstands!"
Credits
- Pencils: Walter Galli
- Inks: Walter Galli
Story Notes
Inside front cover. House ad for All-American Comics #5 and Movie Comics #5 including renderings of the covers. The Movie Comics cover appears to have been redrawn from the airbrushed/painted photo that appeared on the actual cover.
On the Waterfront (1)
Storyline
The Sandman rescues a girl reporter, snooping aboard a ship dealing in illegal narcotics, after she jumps overboard after witnessing a murder.
Credits
- Script: Derf Backderf (uncertain)
- Pencils: Bert Christman
- Inks: Bert Christman
Story Notes
Script credit per Bob Hughes; we previously credited Gardner Fox. Synopsis added by Craig Delich.
Story Notes
Page includes many small ads from stamps dealers.
The Suicide of Major Duval, Part 4 (1)
Credits
- Script: Jerzy Młynarczyk
- Pencils: Jerzy Młynarczyk
- Inks: Jerzy Młynarczyk
"My but th' sky looks dark! Was do you make of it?"
Characters
- Steve Carson (mainstream Universe)
- The Chief (mainstream Universe)
Credits
- Script: Jerry Siegel
- Pencils: Wayne Boring (uncertain)
- Inks: Joe Caramagna
"Hello again, Members! I hope that you have started your dossiers by this time."
Storyline
The column relates the story of a persistent detective that solved a disappearance and a murder, encouraging readers to not give up.
Story Notes
The page includes a clip-and-mail coupon that could be sent, along with 10 cents, to "enlist" in the Junior Federal Men Club. Those who joined received a badge, certificate and Operator's number.
Wallace Beery, Charlie Chaplin (1)
Credits
- Script: Sheldon Moldoff
- Pencils: Sheldon Moldoff
- Inks: Sheldon Moldoff
The Fiddler and the Bank Robbers, Part 1 (1)
Credits
- Script: Jim Chambers
- Pencils: Jim Chambers
- Inks: Jim Chambers
Story Notes
The first two pages of the story are in red, black, and white; the last two are in black and white.
"Professional tennis players like Don Budge..."
Credits
- Script: George Papp
- Pencils: George Papp
- Inks: George Papp
George O'Brien, Sonja Henie, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. (1)
Credits
- Script: Sheldon Moldoff
- Pencils: Sheldon Moldoff
- Inks: Sheldon Moldoff
The Flying Dutchman, Part 2 (1)
Credits
- Script: Chris Carlisle
- Pencils: Chris Carlisle
- Inks: Chris Carlisle
Story Notes
Story is in black and white, except for the feature logo panel in red tones.
A Playboy in King Arthur's Court, Part 4 (1)
Credits
- Script: Fred Schwab
- Pencils: Fred Schwab
- Inks: Fred Schwab
- Letters: Fred Schwab (uncertain)
Story Notes
Letterer credit added by Craig Delich.
Revolt of the Thugs, Part 1 (1)
Credits
- Script: Jerzy Młynarczyk
- Pencils: Jerzy Młynarczyk
- Inks: Jerzy Młynarczyk
Story Notes
Story in black and white, except for feature logo in red tones.
Quest in India [Part 1]
Credits
- Script: Terry Keane
Locoscope
The Monsters of Sin Yen (1)
Credits
- Script: Bart Tumey
- Pencils: Bart Tumey
- Inks: Bart Tumey
Story Notes
Story in black and white, except for feature logo in red tones.
The Modern Rustlers (1)
Credits
- Script: Tom Hickey
- Pencils: Tom Hickey
- Inks: Tom Hickey
The Menace of Chen Fu, Part 1 (1)
Credits
- Script: Bill Finger
- Pencils: Bob Kane
- Inks: Bob Kane
- Letters: Bob Kane
Story Notes
Letterer credit added by Craig Delich. Finger script credit from Bob Hughes; we previously credited Bob Kane, but that is unlikely according to Hughes.
The Land of Thule
Credits
- Script: Gardner Fox
- Pencils: Ogden Whitney
- Inks: Ogden Whitney
Story Notes
Previously credited to George Newman, but per Bob Hughes the art more closely resembles Ogden Whitney's signed art in the next chapter than it does Newman's previous work. For one thing, Carver's hairline is completely different.
"Nuts to you!"
Credits
- Script: George Papp
- Pencils: George Papp
- Inks: George Papp
The Comic Book of Tomorrow Is Here Today!!
Featuring New York World's Fair Comics
"The one and only officially licensed comic book of the New York World's Fair!"
Characters
- Wesley Dodds (mainstream Universe)
- Clark Kent (mainstream Universe)
- Sandman (mainstream Universe)
- Superman (mainstream Universe)
- Zatara (mainstream Universe)
Credits
- Pencils: Vin Sullivan
- Pencils: Fred Guardineer
- Inks: Vin Sullivan
- Inks: Fred Guardineer
Story Notes
Inside back cover. House ad for the 1939 issue of New York World's Fair Comics, including a rendering of the cover.
Story Notes
Back cover.