Comic Cavalcade #1

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CGC records 80 graded copies for Comic Cavalcade #1 (1942). Population is the number recorded by this grading source, not the total print run or all surviving copies.

Wonder Woman: "The Mystery of the House of Seven Gables"

At the request of General Darnell), Steve Trevor) and Diana Prince) head to the New England coast to keep an eye out for spies and saboteurs.

The disappearance of a young boy named Tommy then leads Diana to try and locate him, and she discovers a group of 5th Columnists who are connected to the Nazis that are to come ashore as invaders, including a store-owner. She exposes them by tricking them into performing the Hitler salute. They decide to eliminate her, so they tie her up, gag her, and place her in a sack hoping to smother her. While they are in other room she escapes and changes to Wonder Woman, placing a dummy made from hams on a broom into the sack. The men tie an anchor to it and throw it into the sea. Tommy has been captured by the Nazis, as the store-owner suspected he was spying on him after he asked to do work to pay for food. The Nazis try to make Tommy tell them a safe place to land and he says the House of Seven Gables, which he knows is guarded. Wonder Woman goes there but is knocked out from behind by an anchor. As they approach he cries out and is knocked out. A girl investigates but is silenced by a Nazi. The Nazis find a girl in a bed upstairs, one wakes her up and threatens to shoot the girl. The two girls are gagged and tied to bedposts. Wonder Woman goes to the house and frees the girls. She finds Tommy tied to a chair and gagged downstairs, in the same room as a Nazi. Wonder Woman defeats him and frees Tommy. Wonder Woman, aided by Steve and Etta Candy), go to the Shipyards and attack the Nazis as they try to bomb a new aircraft carrier. Wonder Woman sees the ship moving and thinking a bomb must have launched it. Using her strength she is able to stop it and men are able to fix it in place. | Appearing1 = **Featured Characters:** *Wonder Woman) **Supporting Characters:** *Steve Trevor) *Etta Candy) **Antagonists:** *Nazis ** Mr. Kipp **Other Characters:** * Tommy Royden **Locations:** *Massachusetts ** Charlestown ** Bunker Hill **Items:** *Bracelets of Submission *Lasso of Truth *Wonder Woman's Tiara **Vehicles:** *

| Writer11_1 = Jerry Siegel | Penciler11_1 = William A. Smith | Inker11_1 = William A. Smith | StoryTitle11 = Red, White, and Blue: "The Smell That Spelled J-A-I-L" | Synopsis11 = All-Star Comics Vol 1 2|5 | Appearing11 = All-Star Comics Vol 1 2|5

| Writer12_1 = Ted Udall | Penciler12_1 = Frank Harry | Inker12_1 = Frank Harry | StoryTitle12 = Ghost Patrol: "Hitler is a Bum" | Synopsis12 = | Appearing12 = **Featured Characters:** * Ghost Patrol) **Fred) **Pedro) **Slim) **Antagonists:** * Adolf Hitler) ** Nazis

| Writer13_1 = Ed Wheelan | Penciler13_1 = Ed Wheelan | Inker13_1 = Ed Wheelan | StoryTitle13 = Minute Movies: "Fingers of Fate" | Synopsis13 = | Appearing13 = **Featured Characters:** * Charles Dangerfield (Dick Dare) * Kalua/Bee (Hazel Dearie) **Supporting Characters:** * Tim McGruff (Fuller Phun) **Antagonists:** * Nosabi (Ralph McSneer) **Other Characters:** * Gen. John March (Andrew Handy) **Locations:** * Australia **Items:** * **Vehicles:** *

| Writer16_1 = Ted Udall | Penciler16_1 = Sheldon Moldoff | Inker16_1 = Sheldon Moldoff | StoryTitle16 = Black Pirate: "The Scourge of the Seas" | Synopsis16 = | Appearing16 = **Featured Characters:** * Black Pirate) **Supporting Characters:** * Justin Valor) **Antagonists:** * **Other Characters:** * Queen Elizabeth I) **Locations:** * 16th Century ** England **Items:** * **Vehicles:** *

| Writer21_1 = Bill Finger | Penciler21_1 = Lou Ferstadt | Inker21_1 = Lou Ferstadt | StoryTitle21 = Green Lantern: "The Adventure of Luckless Lenore" | Synopsis21 = Doiby becomes smitten and manages to score a date with a beautiful blonde called "Luckless Lenore", because of how she always finds herself in life-threatening danger. During dinner, her fate strikes again as a gorilla carries her off and climbs a skyscraper. Green Lantern comes to the rescue and after pummeling the ape into submission, discovers it's really a down-on-his-luck acrobat hired to dress up in disguise and kidnap Lenore. Meaning some person has been deliberately targeting her for death. GL lets Doiby take the credit for the rescue, which prompts the mastermind, Doon, to send men to kidnap the cabbie. A midget henchman disguises himself as Doiby to kill an unsuspecting Lenore, but GL arrives, the duo rout the villains and unmask Doon as Lenore's uncle. Her father was a brilliant inventor, and the formulas she stood to inherit would make their owner rich. Doiby arrives in time to save Lenore from the imposter, but she soon declares things were more exciting when she was almost getting killed all the time, prompting Doiby to stomp off in disgust. | Appearing21 = **Featured Characters:** * Green Lantern) **Supporting Characters:** *Doiby Dickles) *Irene Miller) **Antagonists:** * Doon (Uncle Dinwiddie) **Other Characters:** * Lenore Lowell **Locations:** * **Items:** *Starheart Ring **Vehicles:** *

| Writer22_1 = Bill Finger | Penciler22_1 = Irwin Hasen | Inker22_1 = Irwin Hasen | StoryTitle22 = Wildcat: "Crime Takes the Count" | Synopsis22 = | Appearing22 = **Featured Characters:** * Wildcat) **Supporting Characters:** * Stretch Skinner) * Joan Fortune) **Antagonists:** * **Other Characters:** * Tiger Taffer * Possum Pate **Locations:** * **Items:** * **Vehicles:** *

| Writer23_1 = Sheldon Mayer | Penciler23_1 = Sheldon Mayer | Inker23_1 = Sheldon Mayer | StoryTitle23 = Scribbly | Synopsis23 = All-American Comics Vol 1 1|7 | Appearing23 = All-American Comics Vol 1 1|7

| Writer24_1 = Gardner Fox | Penciler24_1 = Lou Ferstadt | Inker24_1 = Lou Ferstadt | StoryTitle24 = Flash: "Crime's Birthday Party" | Synopsis24 = | Appearing24 = **Featured Characters:** * Flash) **Supporting Characters:** * Joan Williams) **Antagonists:** * Horseface **Other Characters:** * District Attorney Morgan **Locations:** *

| Notes = * Published quarterly by Gainlee Publishing Co. This 100-page magazine sold for fifteen cents a copy, in an era when almost all other comics were 64 pages, for ten cents. * The race between Wonder Woman, Green Lantern and Flash depicted on the cover actually doesn't happen in the pages of this comic book. However, the cover served as inspiration for the first pages of the All-Star Squadron story in Justice League of America Vol 1 193. The circumstances were a charity race between the heroes in Los Angeles Coliseum; Wonder Woman won. * The *Red White and Blue* story is a reprint. * This complete issue is reprinted in Comic Cavalcade Archives #1). * **Green Lantern:** In "*The Adventure of Luckless Lenore*". Green Lantern) says a different oath when charging his power ring. ""Let all power and triumph be mine, in whatever right I do". This oath was never used again. * Also appearing in this issue of *Comic Cavalcade* was: ** Hop Harrigan: "Japanese Beetle Trouble" (text story) | Trivia = | Recommended = | Links =

Creative credits

Writers: William Moulton Marston, Jerry Siegel, Ted Udall, Ed Wheelan, Ted Udall, Bill Finger, Bill Finger, Sheldon Mayer, Gardner Fox

Interior art: Harry G. Peter, William A. Smith, Frank Harry, Ed Wheelan, Sheldon Moldoff, Lou Ferstadt, Irwin Hasen, Sheldon Mayer, Lou Ferstadt

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