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Issue: Classics Illustrated #21 - HRN 114
Publication Date: December 1953
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Issues: #21 - HRN 114 of 323 Issues (607 Printings)
Title: 3 Famous Mysteries
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagGilberton
Brand: Classics IllustratedView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Gilberton Company Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.15 USD
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Content Items: 8 (3 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: Second indexer's copy has painted cover; HRN 114; and Classics Illustrated brand, all supporting the 1953 dating above. The indicia date, however, is April, 1945.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.
Paper Stock: cover stock varies from regular glossy to stiff glossy; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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3 Famous Mysteries

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Character(s): Sherlock Holmes; Toby (bloodhound)
Synopsis: Sherlock Holmes and Toby upon the traces
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Pages: 1
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Letterer(s): typeset
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First Line: Free Free
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: House ad, with order coupon, for subscriptions to Classics Illustrated with free three-piece pen and pencil set premium.
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The Sign of the 4

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ? (adaptor)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Character(s): Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Miss Mary Morstan; Thaddeus Sholto; Inspector Jones; Toby (bloodhound); Jonathan Small; Tonga
Synopsis: Mary Morstan consults Sherlock Holmes about her missing father, mysterious pearls, and a curious invitation. They are led to Bartholomew Sholto, who has discovered a treasure in which she should share, but he has been killed and the treasure taken. Holmes, Watson, and Inspector Jones track the killers and thieves (Small and Tonga), whom Sholto's father had cheated in India. Small and Tonga are both killed.
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Pages: 29
Disclose Notes: Watson is presented comically, as in the contemporary Basil Rathbone-Nigel Bruce films, rather than as in the original story.
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The Flayed Hand

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ? (adaptor)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Henry Matson; Mrs Matson; Peter
Synopsis: Peter shows his friends a flayed hand, which belonged to a long-dead murderer. Henry Matson had gone wild, killing with a hatchet, until a strong man wrestled it away and killed him in his turn. The friends warn Peter that the dead killer may return, but he scoffs. That night, the hand strangles Peter as Marston gloats from beyond the grave.
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Bloody hatchet blade in one panel
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The Murders in the Rue Morgue

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ? (adaptor)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Character(s): Dupin; Poe; inspector; Jean; ape
Synopsis: A mysterious assailant brutally kills two women in the Rue Morgue. Dupin concludes that the killer must be an ape, and leads the hunt to track him down and kill him.
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Disclose Notes: Dupin's friend is specifically identified as Poe, as is not the case in the original. None of Dupin's thought processes are explained. Bloody razor shown, along with dead bodies and pool of blood.
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Genres: non-fiction
Character(s): Edgar Allan Poe; Guy de Maupassant; Arthur Conan Doyle
First Line: Born in Boston January 18, 1809, Poe was orphaned in early childhood.
Synopsis: Short bios of the three authors
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Character(s): Don Quixote
First Line: Read the best in the world's finest juvenile publication
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: House ad, with order form, for back issues of Classics Illustrated up to HRN 114; thumbnail of cover to #11 (Don Quixote).
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Disclose Notes: House ad, with order coupon, for Classics Illustrated binders.

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