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ISSUE SUMMARY

Publisher: Lev Gleason
Title: Silver Streak Comics
Page Count: 68
Genre: Adventure, Aviation, Children, Crime, Detective-mystery, Historical, Jungle, Sports, Superhero, Western-frontier
Era: Golden
Cover Price: 0.10 USD
Cover Date: April 1941
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Country: United States
The Claw, in a weakened condition after the savage beating inflicted on him by Daredevil, is found guilty by a jury and sentenced to die in the electric chair. When he placed in the chair and the juice is administered, the Claw regains his power and escapes, leading his gang to a volcanic crater in the Rockies, which he declares will be the future capital of the United States. To seal that intent, he captures Darevil and burns him at the stake!; Silver Streak is vacationing in Argentina and must investigate and solve a series of sabotage crimes already set in motion there and in the United States by a man known only as Iron Jaw.; Professor Skinn has issued a challenge to Dickie Dean for a duel of inventions, and both begin work on various inventions to use on the other. People all over town are taking bets as to whose invention will win out.; Cloud happens upon an airplane wreck and the pilot reports "snow on the wings" before he dies. Meeting with the airline's President, he learns this has happened five other times, and he also discovers the accidents were caused by "The Wingers", who employ a mysterious gun that shoots a secret chemical which condenses the moisture in the air and freezes it.; While the Pirate Prince is trying to free some captured slaves, Dr. Boggs takes over the Prince's ship, and uses the Prince and the re-captured slaves to do his bidding. That is, until he Prince turns the tables on Boggs.; Lance and Jim are taken prisoner by a band of pygmies after Thorne crashes his plane, but set a fire in one of the huts and manage to escape.; The Police have been endeavoring to shut down Leonetti's "Red Rouse", a swank night spot, for months with no luck, so Presto Martin uses his disguise ability to corral "The Domino" in his infamous "Game of Death"!; Bart heads out to track down the murderer of the U.S. Secretary of State.; Dan and Major Clark begin their journey to take gun powder from Ft. Pitt down the Ohio River to Boonesboro, and meet with resistance from a renegade spy and the Indians.; Killer Pete breaks jail and captures Gully and Daisy. However, Cluck comes to their rescue.; Six individual stand along cartoons of fictional absent minded individuals from the sports world and their accomplishments.; Rusty gets into an argument over the Daredevil only being a comic strip character, when Daredevil shows up in the flesh. He encourages the boys to be a "daredevil" by fighting against all that is bad and evil. Silver Streak dittos that remarks, but warns Daredevil that the Claw is on a rampage again, and both leave to take the villain on.