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Issue: Grand Slam Comics #3 [15]

- Attribution History

Publication Date: February 1943

Detail

Issues: #3 [15] of 49 Issues

Title:

Variant: unnamed

Rating:

Publisher: Flag

Anglo-American Publishing Company Limited

Brand: Double 'A' Comics AA

Indicia Publisher: Anglo-American Publishing Company, Limited

On Sale Date: (not set)

Volume: 2

Pages: 64

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.10 CAD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 8 (5 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s): Jack Calder ?

Notes: Betty Mercer lettering credits in this issue based on "The War Years: Anglo-American Publishing Ltd" by Robert MacMillan in Canuck Comics (1986).

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: two colour cover; black and white interior

Dimensions: standard Golden Age U. S.

Paper Stock: newsprint

Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

Format Notes:

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2 Content Items
- The Cracked Safecracker [Story on Interior Page(s)]1
- Wings Over Dazaggar [Story on Interior Page(s)]1

reprinted 2 times from Content Items in other Issues.

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Cover, Front

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Content Items (8 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Letterer(s): Betty Mercer ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Captain Marvel Jr.

Character(s): Captain Marvel Jr [Freddy Freeman]

First Line: With a heavy truck roaring down...

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Who Makes A Hit With All The Family?

Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Letterer(s): Betty Mercer ?

Subject Matter

Synopsis: Promo for Captain Marvel Comics, showing two kids reading comics and a grandmother knitting.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

The Cracked Safecracker

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Letterer(s): Betty Mercer ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Captain Marvel Jr.

Character(s): Captain Marvel Jr; Bull Bimmens

Synopsis: Captain Marvel Jr. saves an older couple from being run over. He figures out that their estranged son is Bull Bimmens, a famous safe-cracker, and decides to get them together.

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From Content Item: Flag

Captain Marvel Jr. #1 published November 1942
was The Cracked Safecracker [Story on Interior Page(s)]15

Reprint Notes: from Captain Marvel, Jr. (Fawcett, 1942 series) #1 [script only]

Miscellaneous

Pages: 12

Notes: Script from Fawcett comic with new artwork for Canadian market. Title from contents page of original comic.

Wings Over Dazaggar

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Letterer(s): Betty Mercer ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Captain Marvel Jr.

Character(s): Captain Marvel Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Captain Nazi; Adolf Hitler

Synopsis: Captain Marvel Jr. goes to Dazaggar in Africa to fight Captain Nazi and prevent him from taking it over.

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From Content Item: Flag

Captain Marvel Jr. #1 published November 1942
was Wings Over Dazaggar!! [Story on Interior Page(s)]15

Reprint Notes: from Captain Marvel, Jr. (Fawcett, 1942 series) #1 [script only]

Miscellaneous

Pages: 17

Notes: Script from Fawcett comic with new artwork for Canadian market.

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Les Gilpin (credited)

Penciller(s): Ed Furness (credited)

Inker(s): Ed Furness (credited)

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction, war

Feature(s): The Crusaders

First Line: Fettered by the bitter Russian winter...

Synopsis: The Crusaders return to help the Russians against the Nazis in the snow.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 10

Notes: Story is credited to Les Gilpin and Ed Furness but breakdown of who did what is not specified.

Mystery at Blackstone Manor

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Macduff (credited)

Penciller(s): Macduff (credited)

Inker(s): Macduff (credited)

Letterer(s): Betty Mercer ?

Subject Matter

Genres: adventure

Feature(s): Pat The Air Cadet

Character(s): Pat; Jerry; Gwen; Lady Blackstone; Lady Stuffington

Synopsis: "A cunning plot is hatched to seize the 'Wondership', a new secret bomber. With Jerry's quick wits and Pat's knowledge of Morse Code, they keep the Nazis from gaining possession of it...." (from the first page of the comic)

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 14

Notes: Last page includes a short biography of Samuel Morse, a Morse code alphabet and a quiz.

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: adventure

Feature(s): Pte. Penny

Character(s): Private Penny; Janie; Jimmy

First Line: Sh! Be careful Janie.

Synopsis: Janie and Jimmy sneak out at night to have an adventure but end up having to be saved from an army firing range. Private Penny shrinks down to the size of an elf to entertain them in a fox-hole.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 8

Notes: Appears to be the same artist as the two Captain Marvel Jr. stories in this issue.

Read Three Aces Comics

Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Letterer(s): Betty Mercer ?

Subject Matter

Synopsis: Promo for Three Aces Comics, including small pictures of Bulletman and Bulletgirl, Deadline and his pal Doc Gordon, Sooper Dooper and Men of the Mounted.

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Pages: 1