Comic Title: Star Spangled Comics #8
Publisher: DC (Detective Comics, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: May 1942
Approx. On Sale Date: March 4, 1942 Copyright Date February 28, 1942
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1942
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: 64
Editor: Fredric Whitney Ellsworth

Title: "The Trio of Terror"
Pages: 8

Feature(s):
Tarantula (of Earth-2)

Artist: Harold Wilson Sharp

Feature Character(s)

• Tarantula (last appearance in Star Spangled Comics #7; next appearance in Star Spangled Comics #9)

Supporting Character(s)

• Olga (last appearance in Star Spangled Comics #7; next appearance in Star Spangled Comics #13)

Villain(s)

• Sting (last appearance in Star Spangled Comics #7; no further appearances)
• The Crime Candle (last appearance in Star Spangled Comics #2; no further appearances)
• Bandana Bardon (last appearance in Star Spangled Comics #6; next appearance in Star Spangled Comics #11)

Other Character(s)

• An unnamed servant (no further appearances)

Synopsis:
The Sting, a former opponent of the Tarantula who was presumed dead, returns. He decides to get help in his criminal operations, so he breaks two of the Tarantula's old foes out of prison. The three men, Sting, Bardon, and the Candle then begin a series of well executed crimes.

Tarantula begins to suspect the trio are behind the robberies. When he investigates one robbery in which a servant was left alive, Tarantula begins to suspect that the crooks are still in the house.

Tarantula's suspicions prove correct as the three emerge from their hiding place. Tarantula quickly apprehends Bardon and Candle, but the Sting seals himself in an underground vault. As police try cutting their way in, Tarantula slips into the vault from the other direction and completes the Sting's capture. All three crooks are then sent to prison.