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Issue: Startling Comics #3

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Publication Date: October 1940

Issue #3
- v1 #1
- #2
- ✔ #3
- v2 #1 (4)
- v2 #2 (5)
- v2 #3 (6)
- v3 #1 (7)
- v3 #2 (8)
- v3 #3 (9)
- v4 #1 (10)
- v4 #2 (11)
- v4 #3 (12)
- v5 #1 (13)
- more...
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Issues: #3 of 53 Issues

Title:

Variant: unnamed

Rating:

Publisher: Flag

Pines

Brand: none

Indicia Publisher: Better Publications Inc.

On Sale Date: 08/29/1940

Volume: 1

Pages: 68

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.10 USD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 12 (11 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s): Ned Pines

Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1940, New Series, Vol. 35, No. 4.

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Golden Age US

Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior

Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

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Content Items (12 total)

[untitled]

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Captain Future [Andrew Bryant]

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Pages: 1

The Anti-Electricity Ray

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Captain Future [Andrew Bryant]; Otto Martin (introduction, death); Briggs (villain, introduction)

First Line: We're interested in producing electricity...

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Pages: 12

Notes: Platt signs on the penultimate panel of the final page.

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Genres: espionage

Character(s): Lt. Don Davis; Schultz (villain, introduction); Marge (villain, introduction); Fred (villain, introduction); Tony (villain, introduction); Nazis (villains)

First Line: In a private dining-room in London!

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Pages: 7

The Deadly Gas Formula

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Genres: fantasy

Character(s): Mystico; Prof. Humphries (introduction, death); Nancy Humphries (introduction); Jaeger (villain, introduction, death); Nazis (villains)

First Line: At last --Sulfanide!

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Pages: 8

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Genres: crime

Character(s): G-Man Dalton; Mantula (villain, introduction); Betty Crews (villain, introduction); Hank (villain, introduction); other spies (villains, introduction)

First Line: Everything's set, Mantula!

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Pages: 7

The Pony Express Trail

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Penciller(s): ? (2 spot illustrations)

Inker(s): ? (2 spot illustrations)

Colorist(s): Tom Gunn

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: western

Feature(s): Jimmy Martin

Character(s): Jimmy Martin; Joe Martin; Grandpa Hicks

First Line: Jimmy Martin saddled the mangy-looking, roan horse...

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Pages: 1

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Genres: crime

Character(s): Scoop Langdon; Prager (villain, introduction, death); Anne Beauchamp (introduction)

First Line: Scoop Langdon, star news-sleuth of the 'Courier', gets a new assignment!

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Pages: 6

Notes: last appearance.

Compare art with signed story in issue #2.

Bobby and the Rhino

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Penciller(s): ? (2 spot illustrations)

Inker(s): ? (2 spot illustrations)

Colorist(s): Jackson Cole

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: jungle

Character(s): Bobby Thomas; Jim Thomas

First Line: Bobby Thomas lived in the jungle...

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Pages: 1

[untitled]

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Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Ace Buckley (introduction, origin); Toni Stark (introduction); Athualpa (guest-star); Pizarro (guest-star); De Soto (guest-star)

First Line: After prolonged research in the space-time theory of relativity...

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Pages: 6

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Genres: western

Character(s): The Masked Rider ["Bronc" Randall]; Sam Withers (villain, introduction, death); Tom Davis

First Line: The Masked Rider hears sounds of distant battle!

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Pages: 6

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Genres: crime

Character(s): Detective-Sergeant Burke; Spivan (villain, introduction, death)

First Line: Detective-Sergeant Burke, patrolling the Bowery...

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Pages: 6

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Genres: humorous

Character(s): Happy; Pappy

First Line: Say - bandits have been sneakin' into that bank...

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Pages: 2

Notes: last appearance in BEST COMICS #4

Two separate one page stories.