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Issue: America's Greatest Comics #3 Public Domain
Publication Date: May 1942
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Issues: #3 of 8 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagFawcett
Brand: object(PgSql\Result)#3 (0) { }
Indicia Publisher: Fawcett Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 05/13/1942
Volume: 1
Pages: 100
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.15 USD
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Content Items: 10 (7 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Otto Binder; Al Allard (art director)
Disclose Notes: On sale date from the publication date as submitted to the U.S. Copyright Office found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 37, Numbers 1-4. January-December 1942. Class B periodical. Copyright registration number B542660.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U.S.
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Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
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Tokio

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Mac Raboy
Inker(s): Mac Raboy
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Captain Marvel; Spy Smasher; Bulletman
Character(s): Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Spy Smasher [Alan Armstrong]; Bulletman [Jim Barr]
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Pages: 1
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Captain Marvel
Character(s): Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]
First Line: Always Ring the Bell!
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover. Advertisement for Whiz Comics.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Contents page.
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The Magno-Ray

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Ray Harford; C. C. Beck (Beautia faces only)
Inker(s): Ray Harford; C. C. Beck (Beautia faces only)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Captain Marvel
Character(s): Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Steamboat; Beautia Sivana; Shazam (inset); Thaddeus Bodog Sivana (villain)
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Pages: 21
Disclose Notes: Main artist revision from C. C. Beck to Harford, per P. C. Hamerlinck in Alter Ego #169 (May, 2016), added by Craig Delich. Harford credit confirmed from a picture taken of him as he worked on the last page on this story.
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The Baffling Morto

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Phil Bard
Inker(s): Phil Bard
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Mr. Scarlet
Character(s): Morto (villain, introduction); Adolf Hitler (villain); Benito Mussolini (villain); Hirohito (villain)
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Pages: 15
Disclose Notes: Title from contents page.
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Leads the Freedom Fight

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Mac Raboy
Inker(s): Mac Raboy
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: espionage, superhero
Feature(s): Spy Smasher
Character(s): Stuart Corby [Admiral Corby's nephew] (introduction)
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Pages: 18
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Aaron's Perfect Plans

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Pauline Tyson Stephens
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 2
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The Baffling Case of the Murdered Millionaire

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Otto Binder
Penciller(s): Phil Bard
Inker(s): Phil Bard
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Minute Man
Character(s): The Strange Man With Cats (villain, introduction, death)
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Pages: 20
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Subject Matter
Genres: informational
Feature(s): Strange But True
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The Man Who Lived a Million Years

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Otto Binder
Penciller(s): Don Rico ?
Inker(s): Don Rico ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Bulletman
Character(s): Man of the Ages (villain, introduction)
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Pages: 15
Disclose Notes: Title from contents page.

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