#2 March 2002

Cover
Contents
Crimebuster
Daredevil/Little Wise Guys
Titan
Daredevil Text


Captain Cook
Letters/Cover Gallery
Back Cover
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   -Crimebuster, Daredevil, Titan, and Captain Cook scans by me. First posting.

    -Daredevil text scans by Richard Croxton. Donated by "DarkMark." First posting.


Hello and welcome to the second daredeviling issue of Crimebusters!!! Here you'll get a monthly dose of Golden Age goodness! This month we welcome Daredevil and the Little Wise Guys into our regular monthly line-up!!!

Crimebuster
Crimebuster
    -Story taken from Boy Comics #53
Lev Gleason Publications Inc. May 1950
     -Writer- Charles Biro
     -Penciler- Norman Maurer
     -Inker- Norman Maurer
   -A.K.A.- Chuck Chandler
   -Known Powers- None
   -Other information- Learning his father had been killed by the Nazi Iron Jaw, Chuck Chandler sets off around the world to find him wearing his school hockey uniform and cape. This would be his Crimebuster uniform until 1950 when a girl would refuse to be seen with him in his ridiculous costume. From then on he dropped the cape and kept only the sweater with blue dress pants. CB also kept a pet monkey, Squeeks, who saved his life more than once!
    -Known Appearances- Boy Comics 3-119; Text stories in Daredevil Comics and Silver Streak Comics 21

Daredevil/The Little Wise Guys
    -Story taken from Daredevil Comics #47
Lev Gleason Publications Inc. March 1948
     -Writer- Charles Biro
     -Penciler- Norman Maurer
     -Inker- Norman Maurer
   -A.K.A.- Bart Hill/Scarecrow, Jock, Curly, and Pee-Wee
   -Known Powers- None
   -Other information- Orphaned as a baby by his scheming uncle, young Bart Hill is raised in the Australian Outback by a tribe of Aborigines. While still just a boy, Bart becomes the leader of the tribe, and eventually learns of his past. He travels to America where he defeats his uncle, and becomes Daredevil!
    -Known Appearances-Daredevil: Daredevil Comics 1-67, 79, 80; Silver Streak Comics 6-17 The Little Wise Guys: Daredevil Comics 13-134; Text stories of both in Boy Comics
The Little Wise Guys

Titan
Titan
    -Story taken from All-Good Comics #1
Fox Features/R. W. Voigt. 1944
     -Writer- Unknown
     -Penciler- Ben Ellis?
     -Inker- Unknown
    -Known Appearances- All-Good Comics 1; All-Top Comics 1; All-Your Comics 1; The Book of Comics 1; Jo-Jo Comics 4

"Subway Suckers"
A Daredevil Text Story
    -Story taken from Boy Comics #30
Lev Gleason Publications Inc. October 1946
     -Writer- Richard French
    -Teaser- Can Daredevil stop a subway pick-pocket ring without killing Pee-Wee?
Daredevil

Captain Cook
Captain Cook of Scotland Yard
    -Story taken from Smash Comics #7
Comic Magazines Inc. February 1940
     -Writer- Unknown
     -Penciler- Stanley Aschmeier
     -Inker- Stanley Aschmeier
    -Known Appearances- Feature Comics 13, 18-22; Smash Comics 1-13

Crimebusters  #2. Published monthly by Golden Years Publications, March 2002. All original material presented here and site design is property of The Golden Years and is not to be represented without permission from the site owner. All represented material, comics, covers, etc. is believed to be in the public domain and reprinted for historical purposes. If you wish you may use stories on your own site as long as you give me or the original scanner credit. I would appreciate it however if you would let me know before representing a story. Biographical information pulled from The Grand Comics Database, AC's Golden Age Hero and Heroine Directory,Pure Excitement Comics, and Jess Nevins' Golden Age Hero Directory