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Issue: Power Comics #3 Public Domain
Publication Date: August 1945
 
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Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagNarrative
Brand: object(PgSql\Result)#3 (0) { }
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On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume:
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 7 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: The book itself is undated anywhere. Date is a best guess based on William Woolfolk's records and Keltner's Index.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy covers; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
Disclose Images1
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
?
Subject Matter
horror, superhero
Black Raider; Merlin; Dr. Mephisto; Miss Espionage; Chin Chop
Reprinting
FlagAction! Mystery! Thrills! Comic Book Covers of the Golden Age: 1933-45 #[nn] published December 2011
FlagBlack Light: The World of L. B. Cole #[nn] published January 2015
 
Miscellaneous
1
Cut-Rate Crimes!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
superhero
Black Raider [Gordon Summers]
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Miscellaneous
12
Woolfolk's records indicate he wrote at least one Black Raider story. This is probably it.
Previously appeared in Mask Comics #2.
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Chin Chop
Chin Chop, the world's worst detective...
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Miscellaneous
6
Previously appeared in Mask Comics #2.
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
?
Subject Matter
superhero
Dr. Mephisto (introduction)
Here is a tale of the diabolical Dr. Mephisto...
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Miscellaneous
8
Art ID by David Saunders at (September 2013).
Science Solves a Crime

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
?
?
typeset
Subject Matter
crime
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
2
Miss Espionage the International Detective

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
mystery
Miss Espionage [daughter of Mata Hari] (introduction; origin, villain that has reformed); Major Smithson (introduction, intelligence officer); Mati Hari (villain, spy, death, cameo); Count von Bruno (villain, Mati Hari's teacher, introduction, death)
Out of the smoke and flame of war...
Allied HQ inside Germany assigns Major Smithson the task of locating the modern Mati Hari, who has stolen the plans of Allied occupation armies. In the end, Smithson tracks her down, but she escapes, vowing revenge against the Nazis who used her for their own purposes.
Reprinting
FlagDivas, Dames & Daredevils #[nn] published January 2013
as Women At War [Text Article on Interior Page(s)]page 1 splash only
 
Miscellaneous
7
Woolfolk's records for this time period indicate he wrote at least one Miss Espionage story and this is probably it.
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
?
Subject Matter
superhero
Merlin (the Boy Magician); Pancho; Morgan Le Faye (villain)
What was the secret of the magic coin?
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
12
credits suggested by Jerry Bails' Who's Who.

Boy Magician previously appeared in Mask Comics #2

For this story only, the Feature Logo is "The Boy Magician".

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