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Issue: Airboy Comics #3
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Issues: #3 of 5 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagThorpe & Porter
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Indicia Publisher: Jenson
On Sale Date: (not set)
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Pages: 68
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Price: 12.0 pence GBQ 0-1-0
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Content Items: 16 (12 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Colour cover; Black and White interior
Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U. S.
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Ernest Schroeder
Inker(s): Ernest Schroeder
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, aviation
Feature(s): Airboy
Character(s): Airboy [David Nelson II]
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Pages: 1
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Joan the Wad

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Joan the Wad
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Pages: 1
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Ad to send for a 'History of the Cornish Piskey folk'.
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The Giant Ants

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Ernest Schroeder
Inker(s): Ernest Schroeder
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, aviation
Feature(s): Airboy
Character(s): Airboy [David Nelson II]; giant ants (villains, all die)
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Pages: 13
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Cactus Speedway

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Subject Matter
Genres: sports
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Pages: 5
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Tomb of the North

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Pages: 5
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Blackbeard and the Vulture

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Bob Powell?
Inker(s): Bob Powell?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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The Chemical Kid

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): Typeset
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Pages: 2
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Voodoo and Vengeance

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Ernest Schroeder
Inker(s): Ernest Schroeder
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Heap
Character(s): Ther Heap [Baron Eric von Emmelman]; Captain "Ivory" Williams (steamer Captain); MacPherson (steamer engineer); Oonook (Zuta Elder); un-named Chief of the Zutas; Mr. Stanley; Stanley's assistants [Dalton; Fenwick] (villains, both die)
Synopsis: Two assistants to Mr. Stanley plot to stir up the Zutas to a point where they will assist them in capturing the steamer "Resolute" and the trading post of Ungala. When that occurs, the pair will take control of the territory, unaware that each of them plans to kill the other and become sole ruler!
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Who Has the Ball?

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Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: sports
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Pages: 3
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Frogman's Warning

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Kim Aamodt ?
Penciller(s): Mike Roy ?; Larry Woromay ?
Inker(s): Jack Abel
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Cmd. Barton; Lt. Jamie Jamison
Synopsis: A U.S. destroyer with American and British frogmen finds a creature off the coast of Scotland.
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Art ID from JVJ Collection. Both Roy and Abel are credited to war stories 1952-53 at Hillman by Jerry Bails' Who's Who, while Woromay is not credited to Hillman.

This reprint includes the indicia at the bottom of the page like the original issue.
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The Sawdust Target

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Kim Aamodt ?
Penciller(s): Bernie Krigstein (signed)
Inker(s): Bernie Krigstein (signed)
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: espionage
Character(s): Krainin (spy); Draper (spy)
Synopsis: Two enemy spies are copying an important formula at a defence plant.
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Pages: 3
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Frogman's Confetti

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Kim Aamodt ?
Penciller(s): Dan Zolnerowich
Inker(s): Dan Zolnerowich
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: espionage, war
Character(s): Tom Lacey (frogman); Stoddard (Ordnance Officer)
Synopsis: Four Army transport ships are sabotaged in Sea of Japan during the Korean War.
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Zolnerowich is credited to working at Hillman by by Jerry Bails' Who's Who, and this art is exactly identical to his credited story "Color Blind" in Hillman's Crime Detective v1 #10. Compare face and nose page 3 panel 5 with page 1 panel 3 in "Color Blind".
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The Riders of the Warheads

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Kim Aamodt ?
Penciller(s): Ross Andru
Inker(s): Ross Andru
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, espionage, war
Character(s): Cmd. Johnny Parsons; Jason (frogman)
Synopsis: Enemy frogmen have planted mines on the hull of the U.S.S. "Dakota".
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Art credits from JVJ. Ross Andru is credited to war stories at Hillman by Jerry Bails' Who's Who.
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The Ice Frogs

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Kim Aamodt ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Cpt. Wright; Cmd. Carew
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Aamodt is the only writer credited to Frogman 1952-53, but there may have been others.
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Boys! become Men!

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Body Sculpture Club
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside Back Cover.
Ad for bodybuilding kits for juniors.
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68 Big Pages of Fantasy at 1/-!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back Cover.
House Ad for 'Adventures into Weird Worlds' (68 pages) and 'Black Magic'.

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