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Issue: Whodunit #3
Publication Date: December 1948
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Issues: #3 of 3 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagD.S. Publishing
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: D.S. Publishing Company Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 13 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Be Your Own Detective

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Al Camy
Inker(s): Al Camy
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Kip Dawn (chemistry professor); Poppy Fields (student); Professor Dornick; Madame Necro; Doctor Havens; Amos Lear
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Pages: 1
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Lose Weight...

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Penciller(s): ? (photos)
Inker(s): ? (photos)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): The Spot Reducer
Synopsis: Reduce weight with the Spot Reducer.
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Pages: 1
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Secret of the Seance

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Kip Dawn; Poppy Fields; Clarence "Biff" Bangs; Professor Dornick; Madame Necro; Doctor Havens; Amos Lear
Synopsis: The team is invited to a ghost seance, where Dornick is murdered
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Pages: 12
Disclose Notes: Faces, especially outlines of noses are identical to the Camy-credited story in Adventures into the Unknown (American Comics Group, 1948 series) #19.
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Case of the Fake Photo

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Inspector Reis; Sergeant O'Hara; Fred Mednick; Herman Train; Else Fawn
Synopsis: An old photographer has been murdered in his laboratory by his assistant.
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Pages: 8
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[untitled]

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Penciller(s): ?
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Who Done It?
First Line: Don't you see that sign...
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Pages: 1
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Blueprint for Death

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Jim Brewster; Finley; Pete Adams
Synopsis: Adams is trying to ruin the construction work of his partner to get the contract for his own firm.
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Pages: 8
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Murder to Music

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Raoul; Francine; Phil Benson; Leutenant Dave Killian
Synopsis: A man is found dead in the Club Royale.
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Pages: 2
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Death Joins the Party

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Willie Brophy [Willie The Croaker]; Honest John Murdock; Pete Peterson; Henry Morton; Muscles Guilford; Linda Morton; Freddy Stanford; Larry Watson
Synopsis: A politician is blackmailed, and later the blackmailer turns up dead.
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: This story is very similar to Waldman's signed story in Crime Patrol (EC, 1948 series) #14, on both layout and movement, but less so on inking.
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The Red-Headed Vixen

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Detective Lt. Jim Kirnan; Chuck Ballantine; Gloria Patterson; Van Heusen; Mr. Stillwell
Synopsis: What looked like a routine suicide case turned out to be a mystery.
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: The art is very similar to credited stories by Case, as in Pay Off (D. S. Publishing, 1948 series) #1 and Rangers of Freedom (Fiction House, 1941 series) #45, especially heads and inking of wrinkles in clothing.
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Bad Skin

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Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Synopsis: Advice to comic readers for bad skin.
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Grow More Hair

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Penciller(s): ? (photo)
Inker(s): ? (photo)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Ward Laboratories, Inc.
Synopsis: Kill the 4 types of hair-destroying germs.
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Pages: 1
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Skinny!

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Penciller(s): ? (photo)
Inker(s): ? (photo)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Charles Atlas
Character(s): Charles Atlas
Synopsis: Give Mr. Atlas 15 minutes a day and he'll give you a new body.
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Pages: 1
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Premiums-Given

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (photos)
Inker(s): ? (photos)
Colorist(s): ? (photos)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: informational
Feature(s): Cloverine Brand Salve
Synopsis: Sell Cloverine Brand Salve and get prizes.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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