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Issue: Captain Marvel Story Book #3 Public Domain
Publication Date: January 1948
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Issues: #3 of 4 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagFawcett
Brand: A Fawcett PublicationView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Fawcett Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 02/06/1948
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 9 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Wendell Crowley; Will Lieberson (executive editor); Wilford Hamilton Fawcett [as W. H. Fawcett, Jr.] (signed, president)
Disclose Notes: On sale date from the publication date reported to the U.S. Copyright Office found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Volume 2, Part 1B, Number 1, Pamphlets, Serials and Contributions to Periodicals, January-June 1948. Copyright registration number AA39707.

This issue was indexed from scanned copy at the Digital Comics Museum (http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/preview/index.php?did=26364) [retrieved 13 February 2016].
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard silver age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): C.. C. Beck
Inker(s): Pete Costanza ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Captain Marvel
Character(s): Captain Marvel; unnamed police officer
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Pages: 1
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Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): C. C. Beck ?
Inker(s): Pete Costanza ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Captain Marvel; Shazam
Synopsis: A pin-up of Captain Marvel and the wizard Shazam with a brief back story about Marvel's origins.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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Bucket of Blood Murders!

Credits  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): C. C. Beck ?
Inker(s): Pete Costanza ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Captain Marvel
Character(s): Captain Marvel; Detective Butch O'Grady
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Table of contents page will large illustration and indicia.
Illustration from the interior story.
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Bucket O' Blood Murders!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bill Woolfolk ?
Penciller(s): C. C. Beck
Inker(s): Pete Costanza ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?; typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Captain Marvel
Character(s): Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Mr. Mental (introduction, villain); Detective Butch O'Grady; Lardhead (villain, Mr. Mental underling); Sterling Morris; unnamed surgeon/doctor; unnamed nurse; Percival (Percy) O'Grady; R.R. Stoneheart; Snitch (villain, Mr. Mental underling); Lefty (villain, Mr. Mental underling); Socker DeBull; the Mayor
Synopsis: Captain Marvel, with the help of Detective O'Grady and later his son Percy, help stop Mr. Mental and his gang.
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Pages: 25
Disclose Notes: This is a comic-illustrated text story with some pages of full comics.

Chapter titles are as follows:
1: Bullets in the Rain (about 2.125 pages)
2: Gangland's Revenge (about 2.375 pages)
3: Plight of Percival O'Grady (about 3.870 pages)
4: Death on the Golf Course (about 3.725 pages)
5: Mr. Mental Strikes Again (about 2.525 pages)
6: Captain Marvel to the Rescue (about 3.875 pages)
7: Mr. Mental Meets Captain Marvel (about 3.875 pages)
8: Conclusion (about 2.630 pages)
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Frank the Florist
Character(s): Frank; unnamed police officer; Frank's daughter; Frank's son
Synopsis: Frank stops his son from pulling his daughter's pigtails.
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Pages: 1
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Capt. Kid Gets the Bear Facts

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Al Liederman
Inker(s): Al Liederman
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, superhero
Feature(s): Captain Kid
Character(s): Captain Kid; unnamed taxidermist; unnamed bear trainer; unnamed kids
Synopsis: Kid thinks he fighting a stuffed bear to show off to his friends, but it turns out to be the real thing.
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Pages: 4
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Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): George Washington; Babe Ruth; Lou Gehrig
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Page of trivia questions and answers.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Mr. Egbert the Executive
Character(s): Mr. Egbert; Hawkins
Synopsis: Mr. Egbert refuses to give a business loan to Hawkins.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): C. C. Beck ?
Inker(s): Pete Costanza ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Captain Marvel; Billy Batson
First Line: To all my pals - Captain Marvel
Synopsis: Billy Batson introduces to the audience Captain Marvel.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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