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Issue: What Is... the Face? #3

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Publication Date: August 1987

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Issues: #3 of 3 Issues

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Variant: unnamed

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Publisher: Flag

A.C.E. Comics

Brand: ACE Comics

Indicia Publisher: ACE Comics Inc.

On Sale Date: (not set)

Volume: 1

Pages: 36

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $2.50 CAD
$1.75 USD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 6 (2 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s): Ron Frantz

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: Color Cover; Black and White Interior

Dimensions: Standard Modern Age US (6-5/8" x 10-1/4")

Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior

Binding: Saddle-Stitched

Publishing Format: Was ongoing

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1 Content Item
- [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]1

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Cover, Front

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Content Items (6 total)

Kill The Face

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Penciller(s): Alex Toth (painted) (signed)

Inker(s): Alex Toth (painted) (signed)

Colorist(s): Alex Toth (painted) (signed)

Letterer(s): Pat Boyette (logo design)

Subject Matter

Genres: mystery

Feature(s): The Face

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Pages: 1

A Man Possessed

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Joe Gill; Ron Frantz (plot)

Penciller(s): Steve Ditko

Inker(s): Rick Altergott

Letterer(s): Wayne Truman

Subject Matter

Genres: mystery

Feature(s): The Face

Character(s): The Face [Tony Trent] (original golden age version, as a ghostly image); The Face [Tony Trent] (grandson of the original); D.A. Janet Baxter; Lt. Jack Grogan; Richland Cooper (killed); Dorothy; "Honorable One" (intro); Louis "Duke" Arno (villain, killed); Jade Lee (villain, killed)

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Pages: 18

Notes: Part 3 of 3.

From Ace Comics!

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

Credits

Writer(s): Ron Frantz ?

Penciller(s): C. C. Beck (illustration)

Inker(s): C. C. Beck (Illustration)

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: fantasy

Feature(s): On Top of Ol'lympos

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Pages: 2

Notes: Ad for ON TOP OF OL'LYMPOS, new 100-page graphic novel involving a new take on Graeco-Roman mythology, by C.C. Beck, the main artist on Captain Marvel.

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Fred Guardineer (signed)

Inker(s): Fred Guardineer (signed)

Letterer(s): Fred Guardineer ?

Editor(s): ? (original editor)

Subject Matter

Genres: mystery

Feature(s): Who Dunnit

Character(s): Detective Gary Harding; Wambly Dorglum; Archibald Dorglum; Conrad Dorglum; Tirza Dorglum; Harold Dorglum; Felice Dorglum; Slicker Merrick

First Line: The Dorglum Family Murders

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Crime Does Not Pay #74 published April 1949
was The Dorglum Family Murders [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Pages: 8.5

The Golden Age of Professional Wrestling!

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

Credits

Writer(s): Ron Frantz ?

Penciller(s): Ross Andru (illustration)

Inker(s): Mike Esposito (illustration)

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Mister Universe

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Pages: 1

Notes: Advertisement for Mister Universe, reprints of material from 1951 which was never published.

It's Time to Face the Music!

Letters Page on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Ron Frantz

Letterer(s): typeset

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Pages: 4

Notes: Editor Ron Frantz notes that The Face #4 will feature reprints of 4 Face stories by Gardner Fox and Mart Bailey and a cover by Alex Toth but the title was cancelled with this issue.