Issue: #2
Last valuation update: 2026-10-03
Amid the relentless bad news of the Great Depression, America had become fascinated with J. Edgar Hoover's FBI. Super Heroes did not yet exist in comics, but the industry was casting about for reliable money makers and adventurers and law and order types were beginning to make headway, In this issue, Siegel and Shuster introduced Federal Men starring FBI agent Steve Carson, who investigated kidnap...
First appearances: Dot of Castaway Island, Beany the dreamer, Larry of Castaway Island, Dare-Devil Dunk, Steve Carson, Captain Bill of the Rangers, Jane and Johnny, Drizzle
Creators: Whitney Ellsworth, Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster, Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, Vincent Sullivan, Jon L. Blummer, Sheldon Mayer, Ellis Edwards, William M. Allison, Tom Cooper, Rolland H. Livingstone, Robert G. Leffingwell, Matt Curzon, Stan Randall, H.C. Kiefer, Clem Gretter, Al Stahl, Walt Kelly, Billy Weston, A. D. Kiefer
Characters: Kendal Quick, Jibby Jones, Gail Coeval, Dot of Castaway Island, Billy the Kid, Needles, Oliver Weed, Freddie Bell, Wing Walker, Peter the Animal Trainer, Jim Gale, Chikko Chakko, Ivar, son of Harald, Beany the dreamer, Cactus the goldminer, Dickie Duck, Larry of Castaway Island, J. Worthington Blimp, Dare-Devil Dunk, Steve Carson