[1] He worked as an agent for the United States Secret Service for five years, and then as a detective in the Chicago Police Department.

Marsh was drafted to serve again in 1942,[9] during World War II, and retired at the rank of captain.

48 measuring either 9 1/2 x 12-inches[17] or 10 x 13-inches[18] (sources differ), with black-and-white newsprint pages and a three-color cardboard cover.

[20] Following this was Danny Hale, about "a kid frontiersman who found himself tagging along with revolutionary war heroes, accompanying the Lewis and Clark expedition, and generally being in the right place at the right time (even if those times were widely separated)", according to comics historian Allan Holtz.

A year later, he changed the title to Dan'l Hale and aged the character to a young man.