Unofficial Wow Comics Index

WOW COMICS #8

Cover Date: December 1942
Cover Price: $.10
Publication Date: 1942-07-17

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Cover Credits:
Art: Charles Sultan

Story: "The Gangsters of the Grave" (14 Pages)

Credits:

Plot	Henry Lynn Perkins
Story	Otto Binder
Art	Binder Studio

Feature Character(s):

Mister Scarlet

Supporting Character(s):

Miss Wade

Pinky the Whiz Kid

Villain(s):

Croaker (first appearance; supposedly brings three dead gangsters back to life; supposedly dies)

Graveyard Gang (first appearance for all; Droopy Larch, Butch Binks and Monk Crumm; pose as three dead gangsters; all die)

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Second Story: "Only Those Fit to Live Aren't Afraid to Die" (13 Pages)

Feature Character(s):

Commando Yank

Villain(s):

Nazis

Location(s):

Beauaux, Vichy France

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Third Story: [No Title] (6 Pages)

Credits:

Story	Dave Berg
Art	Dave Berg

Feature Character(s):

Spooks (inhabits a murdered duelist, Robert Lykes)

Supporting Character(s):

Bensonhurst

Villain(s):

Rudolph (first appearance; a duelist for hire; cheats and always kills his opponents; dies)

Location(s):

Slavonia

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Fourth Story: "The Flying Radios" (13 Pages)

Feature Character(s):

Phantom Eagle

Supporting Character(s):

Sgt. Flogg

Villain(s):

German Air Force (first appearance for all; use radio controlled aircraft; all destroyed)

Location(s):

England

St. Cygne, France

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Fifth Story: "Mr. Scarlet Hooks The Hook" (13 Pages)

Feature Character(s):

Mister Scarlet

Supporting Character(s):

Miss Wade

Pinky the Whiz Kid

Villain(s):

Hook (Jones; a yacht captain; former circus contortionist threatens and kills inheritors for pieces of a treasure map)

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