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Issue: Sure-Fire Comics #3[a]

- Attribution History

Publication Date: September 1940

Issue v1 #3[a]

Detail

Issues: #3[a] of 4 Issues

Title:

Variant: unnamed

Rating:

Publisher: Flag

Ace Magazines

Brand:

Indicia Publisher:

On Sale Date: 07/17/1940

Volume: 1

Pages: 68

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.10 USD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 10 (8 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s): Aaron A. Wyn

Notes: Per information from the NY Superior Court hearing December 1941, Ace art director, Fred Gardener, stated that Pat Lamar's studio provided all of the artwork for this issue, as well as lettering. They did not provide scripts or coloring. Lamar's bill was dated 6 June 1940. Lamar admitted that the only art he did was corrections.
Updated and corrected sequence information from Gary Watson (2006-10-1). Artist credits added by Craig Delich 2009-3-21.

The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1940, New Series, Vol. 35, No. 3.

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: full colour

Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.

Paper Stock: newsprint interior; glossy cover

Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

Format Notes:

Reprinted In3

3 Content Items

reprinted 3 times as Content Items in other Issues.

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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.

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Cover, Front

Original Artwork

Digital Edition

Adult Image

Title Page

Indicia on this Page

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Content Items (10 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Penciller(s): Harry Lucey ?

Inker(s): Harry Lucey ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Flash Lightning

Character(s): Flash Lightning

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Lunchboxes of Doom

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Harry Lucey

Inker(s): Harry Lucey

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Flash Lightning

Character(s): Flash Lightning [Robert Morgan]; The Old Man of the Pyramids; Marcia Rand; Miko the Grand Dictator (villain)

Synopsis: Flash must stop a foreign Army that has been hiding in the United States from capturing Fort Holden.

Reprinting

In Content Item: Flag

Men of Mystery Comics #76 published January 2009
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 13

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): W. E. Rowland (signed)

Inker(s): W. E. Rowland (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): The Raven

Character(s): The Raven [Sgt. Danny Dartin]; Mike Collins; Jack; Captain Lash; Lola Lash; Corvell (villain); Slug Dugan (villain, death)

First Line: A city movie house after the last show...

Synopsis: The robbery of a movie theatre leads the Raven and Lola into perils beyond hope against the Corvel Gang.

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In Content Item: Flag

Men of Mystery Comics #76 published January 2009
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 10

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: adventure

Feature(s): Ace McCoy

Character(s): Ace McCoy

First Line: Ace McCoy, air-adventurer...

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 10

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: occult

Feature(s): Marvo the Magician and Tito

Character(s): Marvo; Tito (a monkey); Janet Moore; Lars Vilner (villain); Joe (villain)

First Line: Marvo the Magician and his monkey, Tito, on the highway to adventure, approach a country carnival.

Synopsis: Marvo attempts to assist the owner of a carnival who is being forced by a gang of crooks, after murdering the manager, to sign over ownership of the carnival.

Reprinting

In Content Item: Flag

Men of Mystery Comics #81 published January 2010
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 8

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Joe Archibald

Penciller(s): Joe Archibald

Inker(s): Joe Archibald

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: adventure, aviation

Feature(s): Hap Hazard

Character(s): Hap Hazard

First Line: My daughter in the hands of those crooks...

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 4

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): X, the Phantom Fed

Character(s): X

First Line: X, FBI phantom and past master in the art...

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 10

The Saddle Sleuth

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Cliff Howe (signed)

Penciller(s): ? (illustration)

Inker(s): ? (illustration)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: western

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Feature(s): Whiz Wilson and His Futuroscope

Character(s): Whiz Wilson

First Line: With the invention of his Futuroscope...

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 7

The Fight For Fun!

Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Character(s): Pat; Mike; un-named Policeman; un-named newsstand employee

Synopsis: Pat and Mike find a dime laying on the sidealk and begin to fight over it. But a Policeman comes along and finds out the boys need the dime to buy the latest issues of Sure-Fire Comics and Super-Mystery Comics. The cop gives the boys a dime and each get their comic, while he decided to buy both issues himself!

Reprinting

Reprint Notes: in Alter Ego (TwoMorrows, 1999 series) Vol. 3 #121 (November 2013) (in black and white)

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: May be out of proper sequence in the book.

This same sequence, in color, appears in Silver Streak Comics #6 (September, 1940).