Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942

Hunted by the police ... framed for robbery and murder by the Eye, master fiend and vicious ruler of the underworld ... loathed by Barbara Sutton the girl who loves him ... the BLACK HOOD had to face the blazing purgatory of this murder master's guns to win back Barbara's love and clear himself of the framed charges
Wilson Lamb cuddled his automatic to play Mr. Death and fingered little Louis Engel for coffin cargo. But when he pulled the trigger, Whisper the gun-cobra from Chi spilled out of Doom's deck....
Mr. Peck was dead ... the papers said so. Yet Mr. Peck performed his own autopsy and saved eight men from death.
Big Sid couldn't understand it, and he was a smart monkey. He had cased this job himself, personal. Had cooked up the scheme for pulling it off and had spent a good two weeks laying the groundwork. Yet here he was locked up in the county jail with the hot squat waiting to claim him....
Detective Frey came in and saw Duggin lying dead, and he figured he'd go out and do big things. He went out and threw his weight around. Doing big things? You figure that one out.
Johnny Burke had the making of a fine cop in him ... but there was something strange about Johnny Burke—something mighty strange.
They had expected spaghetti with meat sauce for dinner, but were served instead, hot lead, with a little bit of blood on the side....
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Hunted by the police ... framed for robbery and murder by the EYE, master fiend and vicious ruler of the underworld ... loathed by Barbara Sutton, the girl who loves him ... The BLACK HOOD had to face the blazing purgatory of this murder master's guns to win back Barbara's love and clear himself of the framed charges.