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Cover: Lou Ferstadt & Walter Davoren
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Four Favorites #8

Dec 1942 · Ace Magazines [1940s-1950s] · 0.10 USD
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An Unknown Soldier story follows military personnel confronting a mysterious operative known as "the Clown," who threatens a Senator's daughter and possesses dangerous information about military installations including those around New York Harbor. The soldier must infiltrate the Clown's organization, retrieve classified documents, and stop a sabotage plot targeting the arsenal while evading enemy agents and navigating flooded terrain. The narrative involves espionage, explosives, and a desperate race to prevent the destruction of military assets.

Contains 6 stories
The Corpses That Wouldn't Stay Dead
16 pp · Superhero
Lash LightningLightning GirlDr. Diablo (villain)

When Lash Lightning and Lightning Girl visit a state reform school, they encounter a desperate young man named Bobby who breaks out after learning that Dr. Diale—a local physician with a suspicious death toll—will be treating his ailing mother. The crime-fighting duo agrees to help, but they soon discover the doctor is far more sinister than a mere incompetent healer, leading them into a macabre mystery involving the dead who won't remain buried.

Master of the Roto-Dynamo
13 pp · Superhero
MagnoDaveyThe Clown (villain)

When the Clown—a sabotage master wielding the Roto-Dynamo, a devastatingly powerful engine of destruction—kidnaps Senator Sterling's daughter Jane to force the surrender of vital military defense plans, Magno and Davey race to stop him before the mad scheme tears through America. As the Clown's mechanical monstrosity carves a path of destruction across the nation toward hidden aircraft factories, the heroes must find a way to breach the machine and reckon with a villain who holds both a nation's security and an innocent life in his grasp. With thousands already dead and the clock ticking, can they overcome the Clown's lethal power?

Untitled Superhero story
13 pp · Superhero
Unknown SoldierGeneral Hakura (villain)
Untitled Superhero story
11 pp · Superhero
Captain Courageous
Untitled story
9 pp
Captain Gallant
Giving the Captain His Lunch
1 pp · Humor

ComicBooks.com Value

Our Model is In Beta
Raw (Good) $913
CGC 9.4 · 1 in census $33,906*
CGC 9.2 none in existence
CGC 9.0 none in existence
CGC 8.5 none in existence
CGC 8.0 none in existence
CGC 7.5 · 1 in census $6,637*
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CGC 7.0 none in existence
CGC 6.5 none in existence
CGC 6.0 none in existence
CGC 5.5 · 2 in census $3,364*
CGC 5.0 none in existence
CGC 4.5 · 1 in census $2,731*
CGC 4.0 none in existence
CGC 3.5 · 2 in census $1,815
CGC 3.0 · 1 in census $1,713
CGC 2.5 · 1 in census $1,516*
CGC 2.0 · 1 in census $1,167
CGC 1.5 none in existence
CGC 1.0 · 2 in census $828
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Full credits

writer, artist, inker Harvey Kurtzman
cover pencils Lou Ferstadt
cover inks Walter Davoren

Reprints

Reprinted in Magnificent Superheroes of Comics Golden Age #1 (1979)

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