Ace Powers
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ACE POWERS was a "tough-as-nails" private eye from the Golden Age of comics. He appeared in a at least four stories in Silver Streak Comics, a bi-monthly which sometimes ran as many as ten stories per issue, featuring everything from superheroes (like Silver Streak himself) to test pilots and cowboys. So a hard-boiled shamus fit right in.

And Ace certainly seemed to be tough enough. In the course of his adventures, the "Smash Detective" tangled with assorted "murderous" maniacs, including a sadistic gangster who tied Ace to an over-heating radiator (Yowch!) and an escaped (and disfigured) insane asylum inmate who committed crimes in a Panther mask.

COMICS

• SILVER STREAK COMICS
  (1939-1942, 1946)
  Bi-monthly
  Writers: Joe Simon, Jack Cole, Gill Fox
  Artists: Jack Cole, Jack Binder, John Hampton,Gill Fox, Joe Simon
  Although all these writers and artists apparently worked on Silver Streak during Ace's short run, I have no idea which ones (if any) were responsible for the Ace stories.

• "Heat Devron" (March 1940, #3)
• "The Panther" (May, 1940, #4)
• Title Unknown (July 1940, #5)
• Title Unknown (September 1940, #6)

Respectfully submitted by Kevin Burton Smith. As always, any further info would be greatly appreciated.