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Issue: Boy Comics #3 Public Domain
Publication Date: April 1942
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Issues: #3 of 117 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagLev Gleason
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Comic House Inc.
On Sale Date: 01/19/1942
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 11 (9 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1942, New Series, Vol. 37, No. 2.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.; later standard Silver Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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We Give You the Crimebuster!

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Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, superhero
Character(s): Crimebuster; Bombshell; Swoop Storm; Pepper Casey
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Logo design credit from Todd Klein via his Facebook posting Comics Logos B #69: BOY COMICS on 26 May 2021.
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Origin of Crimebuster

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Genres: adventure, childrens, superhero
Character(s): Crimebuster [Chuck Chandler] (introduction, origin); Mr. Chandler (introduction, death); Mrs. Chandler (introduction, death); Squeeks (a monkey, Crimebuster's pet, introduction); Iron Jaw [Von Schmidt] (introduction); Hansel
First Line: Of what stuff are heroes made?
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In Content Item: FlagBoy Comics #30 published October 1946
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Pages: 13
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Shadows in the Night

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Genres: childrens, superhero
Character(s): Young Robinhood (first appearance)
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Pages: 8
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Welcome Crimebuster!

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Genres: childrens, superhero
Character(s): Crimebuster; Sqeeks, Daredevil
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Daredevil welcomes Crimebuster
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Case of Michael "Red" MacGonigle

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Genres: crime
Feature(s): Case #1001
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Pages: 5
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Swoop Saves a Plane

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Character(s): Swoop Storm (first appearance)
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The Boy of To-Day in the Land of Yesteryear

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Character(s): George "Yankee" Longago (first appearance)
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Daredevil Meets the Monster of Martinique

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Daredevil [Bart Hill]; Remanjon
First Line: Daredevil stood on the peak of Mount Titian and gazed out over the sea of...
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Introducing the Midget Mauler

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Feature(s): Pepper Casey
Character(s): Pepper Casey (first appearance)
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Pages: 6
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George Noble

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Genres: biography
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Son of War

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): ? [as Michael]
Inker(s): ? [as Michael]
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Character(s): Bombshell (first appearance, son of Mars); Hitler (villain)
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Pages: 8

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