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Issue: Pocket Comics #3 Public Domain
Publication Date: November 1941
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Issues: #3 of 4 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagHarvey
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Alfred Harvey
On Sale Date: 1941
Volume: 1
Pages: 100
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.15 CAD
$0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 16 (12 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Alfred Harvey
Disclose Notes: POCKET COMICS, Volume 1, Number 3, NOVEMBER 1941. Published Bi-monthly by Alfred Harvey, 67 West 44th Street, New York, N. Y. Entered as second class matter April 18, 1941, at the Post Office in New York, under Act of March 3, 1879. Price 10 cents per copy. In Canada 15 cents per copy. Subscription for six issues, 60 cents in U. S. A. (Other countries 85 cents). No actual person is named or delineated in this fiction magazine.
Printed in U. S. A.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: digest size
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
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Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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First Line: C.O.D.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Joe Simon's "My Life in Comics" states that Simon drew the covers for issues #1 - #3 of this series.
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The Diabolical Satana

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Character(s): Satana (villain, death)
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Pages: 11
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Six Hours to Live

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Writer(s): ? (Ellery King)
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Pages: 12
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The Zebra Meets the Rattler

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Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Zebra
Character(s): Zebra; Rattler (first appearance; villain)
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Pages: 2
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The Return of Dr. Skull

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Red Blazer [Jack Dawson]; Dr. Morgan; Andrea (Dr. Morgan's niece, introduction); Dr. Skull (villain); Skull's slaves (villains)
Synopsis: Thinking Dr. Skull dead, but bewildered by the fact that Skull's body has not been found, Blazer contacts Dr. Morgan by Visophone, who introduces him to his niece. Just then, the image is disrupted and screams are heard. Blazer sets out for Washington to save him, but discovers an invading forces dropping bombs on the Capitol, and seeks to deal with them while Skull captures the doctor and niece, and his Heat Control formula. Blazer manages to save them and Skull apparently dies.
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Pages: 12
Disclose Notes: Blurb at end of story indicates Skull returns in the next issue.
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Duel with Fritz Kahn

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Pages: 7
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Feature(s): The "Winners"
Character(s): Black Cat [Linda Turner]
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Disclose Notes: contest announcement
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Bayonet Practice

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The Faked Death of Garboil

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Black Cat [Linda Turner]; Rick Horne; Commander Paul Jones; Garboil (villain); Fritz Garboil(introduction, death)
Synopsis: While filming "Mr. Brown goes to Washington," Commander Jones invites Garboil's cast to a party. Jones has invented a bombsight to use against the Axis powers. He is kidnapped from the party and Black Cat and Rick separately decide to investigate. They find Garboil dead. They trace Garboil's killers and Jones' kidnappers to a boat on its way to meet a U-boat. They stop the Nazis and rescue both Jones and Garboil, who is alive. They discover that the dead Garboil was the director's twin, Fritz, who abandoned the Nazis when he saw how Americans lived.
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Pages: 11
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The Black Cat's Rescue

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Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Black Cat [Harvey]
Character(s): Black Cat [Linda Turner]; Rick Horne; Morono (dies in this story)
Synopsis: Rick is going to be electrocuted by the murderer Morono. But the Black Cat rescues Rick and electrocutes Morono instead.
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Dr. Boneblood's Invention

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Genres: horror
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Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: Says Satan is only 500 years old and came from swamps.
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Feature(s): Can You Solve These Puzzlers?
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Pages: 2
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The Genii of Death

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Genii of Death (villain, introduction)
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Pages: 10
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Feature(s): Meet the Stars
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Russian Roulette

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Character(s): Winston Churchill (cameo)
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Pages: 10
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: humorous
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Pages: 1

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