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Issue: America's Best Comics #3 (9)

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Publication Date: April 1944

Detail

Issues: #3 (9) of 31 Issues

Title:

Variant: unnamed

Rating:

Publisher: Flag

Pines

Brand: none

Indicia Publisher: Nedor Publishing Company

On Sale Date: 02/08/1944

Volume: 3

Pages: 52

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.10 USD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 10 (5 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s): Ned Pines [as N. L. Pines]

Notes: Indicia info from a DCM scan (http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/)

The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1944, New Series, Vol. 39, No. 2.

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Golden Age US

Paper Stock: newsprint

Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: was ongoing

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Cover, Front

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Title Page

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Content Items (10 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Penciller(s): Alex Schomburg

Inker(s): Alex Schomburg

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Black Terror; Doc Strange; Fighting Yank

Character(s): Black Terror [Bob Benton]; Doc Strange [Thomas Hugo Strange]; Fighting Yank [Bruce Carter III]

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Pages: 1

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Advertisement on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): ? (ad copy)

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

First Line: Just to get acquainted we will beautifully enlarge your favorite snapshot, photo...

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Pages: 1

Notes: Inside front cover. Ad for photo enlargement services from Dean Studios.

Havoc In Holland

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): ?

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Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Black Terror

Character(s): Nicolas Stuyvesant (introduction, death); Pieter Hoogendam (introduction); Hansel Hoogendam (introduction); Nazis (villains); Black Terror [Bob Benton]; Jean; Tim Roland

First Line: Nazi intrigue threatens the strange new machine which will enable the...

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Pages: 12

The Digitron Beam

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Ken Battefield [as Ken] (signed)

Inker(s): Everett Raymond Kinstler [as Everett] (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Doc Strange

Character(s): Galohz (villain, introduction, death); Karl (villain, introduction, death); Nazis (villains); Doc Strange [Thomas Hugo Strange]; Mike Ellis; Virginia Thompson

First Line: Axis cunning devises a flashing juggernaut that can outspeed bullets--and a beam that...

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Pages: 15

Notes: Signatures in the form of fingerprint file labels located on page 7 of the story.

The Thunderer

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): ?

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Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Fighting Yank

Character(s): The Thunderer (villain, introduction); Nazis (villains); Fighting Yank [Bruce Carter III]; Joan Farwell; General Nichols

First Line: At Bruce Carter's home... I've been thinking of reopening my grandfather's iron mine, Joan!

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Pages: 12

Fur Trapped

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Buck Benson

Penciller(s): ?

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Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: western

Character(s): Tad Lang; Jim Hill; Bill Sikes; Tom Gray

First Line: It was cold in the little log cabin nestling back in the mountains where...

Synopsis: Thieves attempt to steal the furs collected by Tad and Jim, but Tad finds a way of foiling the thieves.

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Pages: 1

The Curse of the Naghwar Diamond

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Subject Matter

Genres: adventure

Feature(s): Ghost

Character(s): Kim (villain, introduction); two other Qatavians (villains, introductions); Ghost [George Chance]; Pierrot; Betty Morris; Leonard Murdock; Yogi

First Line: The sacred Naghwar Diamond enters the United States from the ancient east, bringing with it a...

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Pages: 7

Notes: Appearance between THRILLING COMICS #40 / 42

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Advertisement on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ? (ad copy); ?

Penciller(s): ?

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Subject Matter

Feature(s): How to Write Love Letters

Character(s): Jim; Mary

First Line: Boy! It's sure easy to write love letters now!

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Pages: 1

Notes: Ad for a self-help book on how to write romantic letters.

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Advertisement on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ? (ad copy)

Penciller(s): ?; ? (photographs)

Inker(s): ?; ? (photographs)

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Feature(s): National Radio Institute

Character(s): J. E. Smith

First Line: Be a success... in radio!

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Pages: 1

Notes: Inside back cover.

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Advertisement on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): ? (ad copy)

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Subject Matter

First Line: Outguess the weatherman

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Pages: 1

Notes: Back cover. Ad for the "Swiss" Weather House.