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Issue: Exciting Comics #3 (6) Public Domain
Publication Date: November 1940
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Issues: #3 (6) of 69 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagPines
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Better Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 10/01/1940
Volume: 2
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 13 (12 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Ned Pines [as N. L. Pines] (president)
Disclose Notes: Some info verified using a DCM scan (http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/)

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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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover, newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Max Plaisted
Inker(s): Max Plaisted
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): The Space Rovers
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Pages: 1
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Ted Crane in Egypt

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): George Mandel
Inker(s): George Mandel
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Ted Crane
Character(s): Phator (villain, introduction); Cult of Death (villain, introduction)
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Pages: 8
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The Golden Victims of Orro

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Max Plaisted
Inker(s): Max Plaisted
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): The Space Rovers
Character(s): Orro (villain, introduction, death); space pirates (villains, introductions); their king (villain, introduction); Prince Kongor (introduction)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
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The Plot Against Tony Colby

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Raymond Thayer
Inker(s): Raymond Thayer
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): The Mask
Character(s): Rusty Bolton (villain, introduction, death); Yarnell (villain, introduction); Porter (villain, introduction)
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Pages: 6
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Mystery of the Missing Men

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): George Mandel
Penciller(s): George Mandel
Inker(s): George Mandel
Colorist(s): George Mandel
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Son of the Gods
Character(s): Franklin Delano Roosevelt; The Invincible Five [Burton (villain, introduction); four others (villains, introductions)]
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Pages: 9
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The Kidnapped Inventor

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Leonard Sansone
Inker(s): Leonard Sansone
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: military
Feature(s): Sergeant Bill King
Character(s): Dr. Graham (introduction); Hans (villain, introduction, death); other spies (villains, introductions, deaths); Bill King; Franz
First Line: A new shell receives a tryout behind the Maginot Line.
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Pages: 6
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Jimmy Saves the Trail Drive

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Sam Brant
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): Sam Brant
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Character(s): Jimmy Blue; Tom Harper
First Line: Jimmy Blue felt very proud.
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Pages: 1
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Disaster at the Gold Mine

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Raymond Thayer
Inker(s): Raymond Thayer
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Dan Williams, Private Investigator
Character(s): Halliday (villain, introduction, death); Mr. Preston; Dan Williams; Hank Dawson; Diana Dawson
First Line: The foreman of the Golconda gold mine travels to New York to see his employer!
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Pages: 6
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The Radio Announcer Murder

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Kin Platt ?
Inker(s): Kin Platt ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): The Sphinx
Character(s): Gaskell (villain, introduction); Sphinx [Ellsworth Forrester]; Joe; Lefty
First Line: Ellsworth Forrester spends a quiet evening at home!
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Pages: 6
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Charlie Saves the Day

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Kerry McRoberts
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Charlie Sturdy; James Grant
First Line: Charlie Sturdy knew that he should not bounce his rubber ball up against the side of the apartment building.
Synopsis: Charlie, fetching his ball, encounters James Grant tied up. Charlie frees James and subsequently helps to foil a burglary.
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Pages: 1
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7 Keys to Baldpate

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Kin Platt
Penciller(s): Kin Platt [as Kin] (signed)
Inker(s): Kin Platt [as Kin] (signed)
Colorist(s): Kin Platt
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Harvey
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Title refers to a movie adaptation of "Seven Keys to Baldpate", a play by George M. Cohan (1913), adapted from a novel of same year by Earl Derr Biggers (Charlie Chan's author).
The movie is likely 1935 version: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0026978/
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The Stagecoach Bandits

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Jim Hatfield, Texas Ranger
Character(s): Lobo (villain, introduction, death); Gleason (villain, introduction)
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Pages: 7
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Klaus Nordling
Penciller(s): Klaus Nordling [as Nod] (signed)
Inker(s): Klaus Nordling [as Nod] (signed)
Colorist(s): Klaus Nordling
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Make-Believe Mickey
First Line: Oo! An airplane!
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Pages: 2

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