Comic Title: Sensation Comics #3
Publisher: DC (J.R. Publishing Company)
Address: 225 Lafayette Street, New York, NY
Cover Date: March 1942
Approx. On Sale Date: January 9, 1942 Copyright Date January 3, 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: Maxwell Charles Gaines

Title: "Case of the Phantom Killers"
Pages: 10

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

Writer: Bill Finger
Artist: Irwin Hasen

Reprinted In:
JSA All Stars Archives Vol. 1 HC (2007)

Feature Character(s)

• Wildcat (last appearance in Sensation Comics #2; next appearance in Sensation Comics #4)

Villain(s)

• The Purple Mask Gang (Mitch Daly and Joe Conti named; no further appearances)
• Malcolm Glibson (a lawyer; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Judge John Morey, his wife, and a district attorney (no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Police arrest Mitch Daly and Joe Conti of the Purple Mask Gang. The two crooks are convicted and executed, though they vow vengeance during their trial. After the execution, the two bandits appear to have risen from the dead as the Phantom Killers. The ghostly phantoms then kill the judge and district attorney behind their conviction.

Wildcat decides to investigate the case. He begins by visiting Malcolm Glibson, the lawyer who defended the crooks. Wildcat is suspicious of Glibson, but can't learn anything. He then decides to protect the jury foreman who is the next target of the killers.

Wildcat meets the Phantom Killers. After a couple of battles, he prevails. He then proves that the "ghosts" were just crooks wearing rubber masks that looked like the executed men. He also proves that Glibson, the lawyer, was the gang leader.