Comic Title: Star Spangled Comics #76
Publisher: DC (National Comics Publications, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: January 1948
Approx. On Sale Date: November 7, 1947 Copyright Date November 5, 1947
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1948
Until 1958 DC did not report actual on sale dates to the copyright office
The publication dates listed in LoC records are NOT release dates.


Frequency: Monthly
Cover Price: $0.10
Page Count: 48
Editor: Jack Schiff

Title: "The Firebug of Silver City"
Pages: 8

Feature(s):
Tomahawk

Artist: Fred Ray

Feature Character(s)

• Tomahawk (last appearance in Star Spangled Comics #75; next appearance in Star Spangled Comics #77)

Supporting Character(s)

• Dan Hunter (last appearance in Star Spangled Comics #75; next appearance in Star Spangled Comics #77)

Villain(s)

• H.M Johnson and his henchman (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Flint Hiller (dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Lee Perry, Svenson, Higgins, Benson, Harrison, and Gale (townspeople; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
When fires begin threatening the town of Silver City, outlaw Flint Hiller is suspected. Tomahawk finds Hiller dead in the woods, so he knows that Hiller is not the firebug. Several attacks are then made against Tomahawk, until he identifies and exposes the real arsonist, clerk H.M. Johnson. The clerk was hoping to use the fires as a cover for the theft of town money. He hoped to pin the crime on Hiller, but Tomahawk's intervention spoils his scheme.