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Issue: Golden-Age Greats Spotlight #4
Publication Date: May 2009
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Issues: #4 of 20 Issues
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Publisher: FlagAC
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On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 4
Pages: 104
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Price: $24.95 USD
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Content Items: 17 (12 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Trade Paperback
Color: Color Cover; Black and White Interior
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Binding: Trade Paperback
Publishing Format: Collected Edition
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FlagBig 3 #Fall Edition No. 1 published January 1940 as The Blue Beetle Coast to Coast [Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)]
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[untitled]

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Character(s): Blue Beetle; Samson, the Flame; David (inset)
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: A re-creation of the cover from Big 3 (Fox, 1940 series) #1 (Fall 1940).
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[untitled]

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Genres: superhero
First Line: You can’t go wrong with the Blue Beetle...
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover. Includes partial reproductions of the covers to Mystery Men #25, Big 3 #5, and Blue Beetle #8.
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Borgo, the Mirror Murderer

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Writer(s): ?
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Blue Beetle [Dan Garret]; Joan Mason; Mike Mannigan; Ralph James (death); Frank James (death); Allan James (death); Fred James; Dell James; Dr. Frantz; Borgo (villain, introduction)
First Line: Smashing down upon the underworld rackets…
Synopsis: The Blue Beetle and Joan go after a vicious criminal mastermind, who seeks to murder the James brothers, a group of scientists who once fired him for stealing radium.
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Pages: 15
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The Inner Crime Ring

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Character(s): Samson; David; Professor Brun; Dr. Blood (villain, introduction, death)
First Line: Out of the mists of history comes the mighty Samson…
Synopsis: Samson has to battle the vicious Dr. Blood and his "Inner Crime Ring, which, because it needs capital, goes on a robbery spree, killing anyone who gets in their way.
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Pages: 13
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The Jewel Smuggling Murders

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Character(s): The Flame [Gary Preston]; The Water-Front Gang [Spike, rest un-named](villains, introduction, death for all)
First Line: A gang of jewel smugglers have committed a number of ruthless murders…
Synopsis: The Flame battles a ruthless gang of jewel smugglers, saving a girl several times in the process, whose intent was to squeal to the District Attorney about the gang's activities.
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Pages: 9
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The Shylock Menace

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Character(s): The Flame [Gary Preston]; Spike and other gangsters (villains, introduction, deaths of all)
First Line: Shylocks have been torturing poor people…
Synopsis: The Flame battles a murdering gang of money lenders, who are trying to bleed dry people who borrowed money from them.
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Pages: 9
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The Flying Dutchman Goes Modern

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Penciller(s): ? (two illustrations)
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Character(s): Captain Hetherington; Hardy; Captain Van Der Decken; Korvettenskapitan von Martz (villain); Oberleutnant von Seidorff (villain); Rothmann (villain)
Synopsis: German U-Boat U-134 found a likely target and rose to the surface to attack. But none of the shells had any impact on the ship, which they discovered, to their horror, to be The Flying Dutchman!
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What a Team! 9 Leaders Among Comic Magazines!

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Penciller(s): various
Inker(s): various
Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Samson; the Flame; Blue Beetle; The Dart; Green Mask; Rex Dexter; Ace
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Disclose Notes: Illustrated house promotional ad for the 9 leading comics the company produced, including un-numbered covers to issues of Rex Dexter #1, The Green Mask #2, The Flame #2, Samson #1, Fantastic Comics #12, Mystery Men #16, Weird Comics #8, the Blue Beetle #4 and Wonderworld Comics #19.
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The Ultimatum of Lobar

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Feature(s): Cosmic Carson
Character(s): Cosmic Carson; Lobar (villain, introduction, death); Gargantuans (villains, introduction, death)
First Line: I, Lobar, demand a base for our battle rockets on Earth...
Synopsis: In denying Lobar a base for his battle rockets on Earth, Carson must fend off an invasion force from the villain, who hopes to wipe out the earthlings and become ruler of the universe. All of Carson's rockets are destroyed except his, and he and his men are then strapped to tables by Lobar, and his scientists are set to inject them with a serum which creates a chemical gas that bloats the human body to three times its normal size before it explodes!
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Pages: 6
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The Submarine City

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Feature(s): Dr. Doom
Character(s): Gordon; Wanda; Jan; Jim; Dr. Doom (villain); Venusians [Jarg, rest un-named](villains, introduction)
First Line: In a laboratory miles from civilization the mad Dr. Doom works fiendishly day and night…
Synopsis: Jan and Wanda enter a weird underwater city, inhabited by Venusians, who plan to conquer the Earth as soon as Dr. Doom changes the Earth's atmosphere to that of Venus.
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Pages: 8
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The Blue Beetle Coast to Coast

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Blue Beetle
Synopsis: Promotional ad for the Blue Beetle radio show.
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Pages: 1
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What Was Big 3 Comics?

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Disclose Notes: Illustrated with the cover to Big 3 #1; a page from the Flame story from Wonderworld Comics #9; and various pages from Yarko The Great, Patty O’Day, and Dr. Fung.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? [as Anthony Brooks] (signed)
Inker(s): ? [as Anthony Brooks] (signed)
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Yarko; Mazie White (introduction, death); Slick Snead (villain, introduction); Tricks Todd (villain, introduction)
First Line: In a cheap downtown actors hotel.
Synopsis: A couple of crooks decide to cash in on the fame of Yarko. One of them poses as the famed magician and robs audience patrons blind during the act.
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Pages: 8
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The Undersea Tanks

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Genres: war
Feature(s): Navy Jones Underseas
Character(s): Navy Jones; Princess Coral; Captain Nemo; Dictator of Europe (villain, introduction); General Von Rothmann (villain, introduction, death)
First Line: A delicate undersea operation has re-created Navy Jones…
Synopsis: After having a delicate undersea operation, allowing him to become a waterman, Jones and his companions must find a way to battle a large fleet of underseas Army tanks advancing on the U.S. off the Florio Coast.
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The Death of Khan Gen-Kee

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Genres: adventure
Character(s): Dr. Fung; Lotus Flower (introduction, death); Khan Gen-Kee (villain, introduction, death); Loti Gen-Kee [called Lio-San in this story] (villain, introduction)
First Line: In a palatial Burmese home, Loti Gen-Kee…
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Pages: 6
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The Kidnapping of Mary Sloan

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ? [as Larry Vance] (signed)
Letterer(s): ?
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Feature(s): Mob Buster Robinson
Character(s): Mob Buster Robinson (District Attorney); John Sloan (death, Mary's father); Mary Sloan; Nick Dixon (villain, introduction, death)
First Line: Mercilessly do these leeches of society prey upon honest merchants!
Synopsis: D.A. Robinson, after hearing that a young girl has been kidnapped for ransom, but the father can't pay it and is killed, gets on the trail of the girl, but nearly loses his own life in the process.
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Pages: 5
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The Devil's Hatchet Men

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ? [as Walter Frame] (credited)
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Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Green Mask
Character(s): The Green Mask [Michael Shelby]; Domino the Miracle Boy [Don]; Olivia Tracy (Shelby's girlfriend); The "Devil" [Larchmont] (villain, introduction, death?); the Hatchet Men (villains, introduction, some die)
First Line: A grim mystery hangs like a pall…
Synopsis: A man disguises himself as The Devil in order to get the Chinese merchants to pay him tribute.
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Pages: 10

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