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Issue: Shadow Comics #3 [3]
Publication Date: May 1940
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Issues: #3 [3] of 101 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagStreet and Smith
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Street & Smith Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 03/29/1940
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 16 (13 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On sale date from the publication date found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 35, 1940, Number 2. Class B periodical. Copyright number B 452032. No volume or issue number was submitted to the copyright office. Cover has no volume/issue number.
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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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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, superhero
Character(s): Iron Munro (inset)
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In Issue: FlagAction! Mystery! Thrills! Comic Book Covers of the Golden Age: 1933-45 #[nn] published December 2011
Reprint Notes: from The Shadow Magazine (Street & Smith, 1931 series) v4#3 (January 1, 1933)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, superhero
Character(s): Horace Lybolt (introduction), Ethel Lybolt (introduction); Rupert (villain, introduction); Silk Tabor (villain, introduction); Lefty Rull (villain, introduction, death)
First Line: I think that someone is watching this house, Ethel.
Synopsis: A thug impersonates the Shadow while trying to rob a house.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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Death in the Glass Mountain

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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The Smoke of Eternity

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? (adaptation)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Squint (villain, death); Kar (villain, introduction); Oliver Bittman
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: The story is adapted from "The Land of Terror" story in Doc Savage Magazine (Street & Smith Publications, 1933 series) v1#2 (April 1933) by Lester Dent [as Kenneth Robeson].

The feature continues in Doc Savage Comics (Street and Smith, 1940 series) #v1#1 (1) ([April 17] 1940).
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New

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Kar (villain)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: A house advertisement for Doc Savage Comics (Street and Smith, 1940 series) #v1#1 (1) ([April 17] 1940), with a full-page art panel that continues from the Doc Savage story.
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Death Code

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Character(s): Jim Sheridan (star reporter)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Character(s): Pinky Dawson (death); Bruce Palmer; Sid Palmer; Phil Reed
First Line: She's Pinky Dawson - a cigarette girl at Club Flamingo...
Synopsis: Carrie Cashin and Aleck solve a murder at the race track.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: A Carrie Cashin Mystery - Can You Solve It?
The murderer is not revealed; this leads to a contest on the inside-back cover
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Dick's Luck

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ? (adaptation)
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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Glenn Cunningham

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction, sports
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Pages: 1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Iron Munro (introduction); Spencer Carlisle (introduction); Anto Rayl (Chieftess of the Magyans, mention only, introduction); Devil People of Teff-el (villains, introduction for all, some die)
First Line: Iron Monroe, Jupiter-born and Earth-bred daredevil of science, roams space...
Synopsis: Jupiter born and Earth bred Iron Munro allies himself with the Magyans, the descendants of castaways from Earth's lost continent of Mu, but is captured by the Teff-els, who return to their home planet with their prize captive. But Munro surprises his enemies, captures the ship and returns to Magya to prepare some chemical weapons for use against the Tefflans.
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Reprint Notes: in The Shadow (Sanctum Books, 2006 series) Volume 95 (April 2015)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: The Iron Munro comic stories were inspired/based on editor John W. Campbell's Arn Munro short stories in the ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION pulp.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
First Line: Norgil, and his pretty assistant, Miriam, are about to leave for an engagement...
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Pages: 5
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The Eight-Oared Shell Game

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: sports
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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The Mystery of the Opera Star's Death

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Character(s): Mrs. Green; Mr. Brown; Chick Aylesworth; Roger Duryea; Dr. Quartz (villain, death); Thora Larsen (opera star, as a corpse)
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Pages: 6
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, aviation
First Line: Bill Barnes has been called by Overland Air Lines to investigate...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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Join Bill Barnes' Model Airplane Club

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: aviation, non-fiction
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Pages: 1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
Feature(s): Stars That Shine
Character(s): Susanna Foster
First Line: Songs of the imaginary birds, in Wizard of Oz were obtained...
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Pages: 1

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