Comic Title: Star Spangled Comics #7
Publisher: DC (Detective Comics, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: April 1942
Approx. On Sale Date: February 4, 1942 Copyright Date February 1, 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 Crime Escadrille"
Pages: 8

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

Artist: Harold Wilson Sharp

Feature Character(s)

• Tarantula (last appearance in Star Spangled Comics #6; next appearance in Star Spangled Comics #8)

Supporting Character(s)

• Olga (last appearance in Star Spangled Comics #5; next appearance in Star Spangled Comics #8)

Villain(s)

• Larky Leeds (a criminal pilot; dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Sting (next appearance in Star Spangled Comics #8)
• Sting's gang (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Captain Averill (a army officer; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
A criminal gang leader named Sting concocts a plan to use stolen army planes for crime. Tarantula begins an investigation when the planes are stolen. He follows a criminal pilot and learns where the crooks will strike. Tarantula then interrupts the criminal raid and captures two of the gang members.

Tarantula allows one member of the gang to escape, so that he can find the gang's hideout. He is captured, but manages to warn the authorities of the next criminal attack. Tarantula then escapes, while Sting's headquarters is blown up in an explosion. Sting is presumed dead.