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Issue: Captain Aero Comics #3 [17] Public Domain
Publication Date: October 1944
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Issues: #3 [17] of 14 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagTemerson / Helnit / Continental
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Continental Magazines Inc.
On Sale Date: 1944
Volume: 4
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 13 (9 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden 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
Writer(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: aviation, superhero, war
Character(s): Captain Aero
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Pages: 1
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ? (ad copy)
Letterer(s): typeset
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Synopsis: ad for glow in the dark necktie
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Disclose Notes: indicia states October 1944 Vol.4 #3 Captain Aero Comics published by Continental Magazines on a bi-monthly basis
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The Killers in Kunai

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: aviation, war
Feature(s): Captain Aero, "King of the Sky Trails"
Character(s): Captain Aero; Chop Suey (Aero's Chinese pal); Jenkins (Corporal of the Guard, Post No. 6); Sam; Imperial Japanese Air Force Commander (villain); The Japanese (villains, many die)
Synopsis: Captain Aero doesn't think that his night guards are crazy when they see and shoot at large, hairy beasts, especially when he comes face to face with them himself. Then they discover that Japanese soldiers are inside of the cleverly woven Kunai grass outfits.
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In Issue: FlagMen of Mystery Comics #94 published October 2014
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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Death from the Past

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Miss Victory [Joan Wayne]; Dr. Hoshema (introduction, death)
Synopsis: Joan is bored silly while visiting a museum, when suddenly a man rushes out, telling her that a Dr. Hoshema is going to kill him. As Miss Victory, she investigates, but is overcome, and when she recovers, she discovers the dying stranger, who gives her a scrap of paper, which turns out to be a mysterious chemical formula...a formula that the evil doctor wants!
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In Content Item: FlagMiss Victory Golden Anniversary Special #[nn] published January 1991
as Death From the Past! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMen of Mystery Comics #64 published March 2007
as Death from the Past [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 6
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Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Red Cross
Character(s): The Red Cross "Modern Master of Medical Arts" [Captain Peter Hall]; the Japanese (villains, some die)
First Line: The hero of this story is not a fictional character!
Synopsis: The Red Cross sets out on an impossible mission: capture the city of Yeng-tu from the Japanese in order to retrieve medical supplies that were villainously taken under a flag of truce by the enemy.
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In Issue: FlagGolden-Age Greats Spotlight #6 published January 2011
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Pages: 6
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Burma Roadsters

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Genres: war
Synopsis: In March 1942 Japan took the famous Burma Road and China was cut off from the Allies.
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Signed on the shoulder of green man.
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Episode In the South Pacific

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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: war
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Pages: 2
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Yokohama Yokels

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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): The Mighty Mite
Character(s): Mity Mite (Kid sized crime fighter); Tina
Synopsis: Mity Mite must foil a department store robbery.
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Pages: 6
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The Dog of War

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Genres: war
Character(s): Caesar (Dog)
Synopsis: To the thousands of unsung Canine heroes who are loyally doing their part to help win the war this is the story of Caesar.
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Pages: 6
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First Jap Killer

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Genres: informational, non-fiction, war
Character(s): Captain Kenneth M. Taylor (first flier to down a Japanese plane during World War II)
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The Pilot Who Looked Like Death

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Genres: war
Feature(s): Captain Aero's Sky Scouts
Character(s): Sky Scouts ( boys group); Captain Aero
Synopsis: they battle a Japanese who wears a Death Mask
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Pages: 6
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Synopsis: Inside back cover ad for a Wonderscope (two telescopes in one).
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Pages: 1
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Editor(s): ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: Backcover ad for book "Wonders of Science Simplified".
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Pages: 1

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