New Adventure Comics #12

New Comics received a makeover with issue #12, becoming New Adventure Comics, its symbolic cover featuring a fresh faced baby 1937 ushering out Father Time's past relics. While still stuffed with short humor strips, including, "Hard luck Harry," New Adventure Comics increasingly emphasised action in far away lands through such features as "Castaway Island" and "The Vikings." Rounding out issue 12 was another installment of "Federal Men" though readers could have been forgiven for puzzling over its bizzare sci-fi twist. Unapologetic Sci-fi fans Siegel and Shuster had shoehorned in a professor who explained the "future of scientific crime detection." This framing device gave the two a licence to delve deep into their favourite obsession, telling a tale set in the year 3000 that involved ray guns, rocket ships and star pirates. It also starred an "ace sleuth" named Jor-L (a name later to be re-cycled as that of Superman's father).

Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson - Editor and Publisher

Vincent A. Sullivan, F. Whitney Ellsworth - Associate Editors

Featured Stories

1. Captain Jim of the Rangers [part 11] (by H. Fleming)
2. Do You Know?
3. Janey
4. Hohner Harmonicas (comic ad)
5. Goofo the Great [9] (by Alger [aka Russell Cole])
6. The Vikings [part 12] (by Anthony [aka Alex Anthony Blum])
7. Don Coyote [part 12] (by Bill Patrick and Ed Beckwith)
8. Captain Quick [part 11] (illustrator Sven Elvén)
9. The Blood Pearls [part 5]
10. Worth-While Pictures to Watch For (text article by I. W. Magovern)
11. Rattlesnake Pete of Pistol Hill Arizona [2] (by R. Donrog [aka Gordon Rogers])
12. 17-20 on the Black [part 12]
13. Andy Handy a Man of Action But of Few Words [9] (by Leo E. O'Mealia)
14. Ebony (by Bill Patrick)
15. Straight from Hollywood [3] (by Laidlaw)
16. Ol' Oz Bopp [9] (by Alger [aka Russell Cole])
17. [Famous Poems Pictured] [8] The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (illustrated by Henry Carl Kiefer)
18. Laughing at Life! [4] (by Vin Sullivan)
19. She [part 7] (by H.Rider Haggard, illustrated by Sven Elven)
20. Loopy (by Leroy Smith)
21. Castaway Island [part 11] (by Tom Cooper)
22. The Golden Dragon [part 7] (by Tom Hickey)
23. Maginnis of the Mounties [part 9] (by Babe Mather [aka Richard Matheson])
24. Rock-Age Roy [2] (by [Gordon] Rogers)
25. Jungle-Town [4] (by Dick Ryan)
26. Announcing The International Good Neighbor Club (text article)
27. Steve Conrad [part 8]
28. Cal 'n' Alec [part 11] (by Bill Patrick and Ed Beckwith)
29. Sandor and the Lost Civilization [part 8] (by Homer Fleming)
30. A Tale of Two Cities [part 9] (by Charles Dickens, illustrated narrative by Merna Gamble)
31. Chikko Chakko [11] (by Ellis Edwards)
32. Sam the Porter [2] (by Alger [aka Russell Cole])
33. Hardluck Harry [part 4] (by Bill Carney)
34. Federal Men [part 11] (by Jerome Siegel & Joe Shuster)
35. It's a Dern Lie [12] (as told by Robert Gruman, 131 Arlington Ave., Brooklyn, N.Y.; illustrated by Bill Patrick)