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5Winter 1942
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Leading Comics #5

DC · Winter 1942 · on sale 1942-12-05

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Identification plate

Series
Leading Comics (DC, 1941 series)
Issue
#5
Publication date
Winter 1942
Key date
1942-12-05
On-sale date
1942-12-05
Indicia publisher
World's Best Comics Co.
Price
$0.10
Pages
68

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Contents

SeqStoryTypePagesCreditsCharacters
0The Miracles That Money Couldn't Buycover1pencils: Mort Meskin; inks: Mort MeskinSeven Soldiers of Victory [Shining Knight; Stripesy; Star-Spangled Kid; Crimson Avenger; Green Arrow; Speedy; Vigilante]
1Editorial Advisory Boardpromo (ad from the publisher)0.33letters: typeset
2Salutetext article0.67script: Josette Frank
3The Miracles That Money Couldn't Buycomic story6pencils: Ed Dobrotka; inks: Ed DobrotkaSeven Soldiers of Victory [Shining Knight [Sir Justin]; Stripesy [Pat Dugan]; Star-Spangled Kid [Sylvester Pemberton]; Crimson Avenger [Lee Travis]; Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]; Speedy [Roy Harper]; Vigilante [Greg Sanders]]; The Skull (villain); Bill "Porky" Johnson (villain); Bull Corbin (villain);
4Chapter 2: The Case of the Criminal Vigilantecomic story9pencils: Ed Dobrotka; inks: Ed DobrotkaThe Vigilante [Greg Sanders]; The Skull (villain); Bronco Blade (villain); Roscoe Meek
5Chapter III: Diamond of Doom!comic story9pencils: Ed Dobrotka; inks: Ed DobrotkaStar-Spangled Kid [Sylvester Pemberton]; Stripesy [Pat Dugan]; Sparkler (villain, death); Sylvester Pemberton, Sr.; Mrs. Kimberly
6Chapt. IV: Death Among the Stars!comic story9pencils: Ed Dobrotka; inks: Ed DobrotkaCrimson Avenger [Lee Travis]; Wing; The Skull (villain); Bull Corbin (villain); Edward Grimes
7Chapter 5: Knight Without Armorcomic story9pencils: Ed Dobrotka; inks: Ed DobrotkaThe Shining Knight [Sir Justin]; Winged Victory; Matt Greider (villain, death); Prof. Moresby
8Chapter 6: The Murderer Who Couldn't Be Hangedcomic story9pencils: Ed Dobrotka; inks: Ed DobrotkaThe Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]; Speedy [Roy Harper]; The Skull (villain); Bill "Porky" Johnson (villain, death); Dr. Boggs
9The Miracles That Money Couldn't Buy, Conclusioncomic story5pencils: Ed Dobrotka; inks: Ed DobrotkaSeven Soldiers of Victory [Shining Knight [Sir Justin]; Stripesy [Pat Dugan]; Star-Spangled Kid [Sylvester Pemberton]; Crimson Avenger [Lee Travis]; Wing; Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]; Speedy [Roy Harper]; Vigilante [Greg Sanders]; Winged Victory]; The Skull (villain, death); Bronco Slade (villain); D
10Laffscartoon0.5script: Henry Boltinoff; pencils: Henry Boltinoff; inks: Henry Boltinoff; letters: Henry Boltinoff
11Comic Cavalcadepromo (ad from the publisher)0.5
12Three Times Losertext story2script: Eric Carter
13Ha Ha Hacomic story2
14Dizzy Datacartoon0.5script: George Papp; pencils: George Papp; inks: George Papp
15World's Finest Comicspromo (ad from the publisher)0.5
16-comic story1script: Henry Boltinoff; pencils: Henry Boltinoff; inks: Henry Boltinoff; letters: Henry Boltinoff
17Billy and His Bosscomic story1

Plus 2 pages of advertisements and other matter across 2 sequences, as published.

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