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Issue: Sure-Fire Comics #3[a]

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Publication Date: September 1940

Issue v1 #3[a]

Detail

Issues: #3[a] of 4 Issues

Title:

Variant: unnamed

Rating:

Publisher: Flag

Ace Magazines

Brand:

Indicia Publisher:

On Sale Date: 07/17/1940

Volume: 1

Pages: 68

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.10 USD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 10 (8 stories, 1 cover)

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: full color

Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.

Paper Stock: newsprint interior; glossy cover

Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

Format Notes:

Reprinted In3

3 Content Items

reprinted 3 times as Content Items in other Issues.

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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.

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Cover, Front

Original Artwork

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Adult Image

Title Page

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Content Items (10 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Penciller(s): Harry Lucey ?

Inker(s): Harry Lucey ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Flash Lightning

Character(s): Flash Lightning

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Lunchboxes of Doom

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Harry Lucey

Inker(s): Harry Lucey

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Flash Lightning

Character(s): Flash Lightning [Robert Morgan]; The Old Man of the Pyramids; Marcia Rand; Miko the Grand Dictator (villain)

Synopsis: Flash must stop a foreign Army that has been hiding in the United States from capturing Fort Holden.

Reprinting

In Content Item: Flag

Men of Mystery Comics #76 published January 2009
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 13

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): W. E. Rowland (signed)

Inker(s): W. E. Rowland (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): The Raven

Character(s): The Raven [Sgt. Danny Dartin]; Mike Collins; Jack; Captain Lash; Lola Lash; Corvell (villain); Slug Dugan (villain, death)

First Line: A city movie house after the last show...

Synopsis: The robbery of a movie theatre leads the Raven and Lola into perils beyond hope against the Corvel Gang.

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In Content Item: Flag

Men of Mystery Comics #76 published January 2009
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 10

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: adventure

Feature(s): Ace McCoy

Character(s): Ace McCoy

First Line: Ace McCoy, air-adventurer...

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 10

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: occult, superhero

Feature(s): Marvo the Magician and Tito

Character(s): Marvo; Tito (a monkey); Janet Moore; Lars Vilner (villain); Joe (villain)

First Line: Marvo the Magician and his monkey, Tito, on the highway to adventure, approach a country carnival.

Synopsis: Marvo attempts to assist the owner of a carnival who is being forced by a gang of crooks, after murdering the manager, to sign over ownership of the carnival.

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In Content Item: Flag

Men of Mystery Comics #81 published January 2010
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 8

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: adventure, aviation

Feature(s): Hap Hazard

Character(s): Hap Hazard

First Line: My daughter in the hands of those crooks...

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 4

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): X, the Phantom Fed

Character(s): X

First Line: X, FBI phantom and past master in the art...

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 10

The Saddle Sleuth

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Cliff Howe (signed)

Penciller(s): ? (illustration)

Inker(s): ? (illustration)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: western

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Feature(s): Whiz Wilson and His Futuroscope

Character(s): Whiz Wilson

First Line: With the invention of his Futuroscope...

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 7

The Fight For Fun!

Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Character(s): Pat; Mike; un-named Policeman; un-named newsstand employee

Synopsis: Pat and Mike find a dime laying on the sidealk and begin to fight over it. But a Policeman comes along and finds out the boys need the dime to buy the latest issues of Sure-Fire Comics and Super-Mystery Comics. The cop gives the boys a dime and each get their comic, while he decided to buy both issues himself!

Reprinting

Reprint Notes: in Alter Ego (TwoMorrows, 1999 series) Vol. 3 #121 (November 2013) (in black and white)

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: May be out of proper sequence in the book.

This same sequence, in color, appears in Silver Streak Comics #6 (September, 1940).