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Issue: Marvel Mystery Comics #3
Publication Date: January 1940
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Issues: #3 of 91 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Timely Publications
On Sale Date: 11/17/1939
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 11 (7 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Martin Goodman
Disclose Notes: On sale date from the publication date found at the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 35, January-December 1940, Numbers 1-4. Second class permit. Copyright number 437425.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Full Color
Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U.S. (through about early 1944, narrower thereafter)
Paper Stock: Newsprint
Binding: Saddle-Stitched
Publishing Format: Monthly (through July 1944, variable thereafter)
Format Notes:  
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Alex Schomburg
Inker(s): Alex Schomburg
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Angel
Character(s): The Angel [Tom Halloway]
First Line: Unaware of death behind him, the Angel went into action
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics #1 [Regular Edition] published October 2004
as [untitled] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics #1 [Regular Edition] published October 2004
as Cover Gallery [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics #1 published January 2012
as [untitled] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics #1 published January 2012
as [untitled] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: If, as claimed, this IS Schomberg it's a very different style to anything that followed.
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[untitled]

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
First Line: Hi Fellers!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Advertisement for a telescope from Brownscope Co. Located on inside front cover.
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The Menace from Mars

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Human Torch
Character(s): The Human Torch; Mr. Carson (introduction, owner of the Carson Explosive Company, death); Diane Carson (daughter of Mr. Carson); the Martians (villains, introduction); Captain Ott (villain, introduction, a Martian); Mr. Ritton (villain, introduction, agent of the planet Mars on Earth, death)
First Line: The streamline train, Comet, cracks out a steady rhythm as her nose heads for Texas.
Synopsis: After an attack on New York by Martians, the Torch decides that a new explosive called Trinitrotoluol is probably better off in the hands of the Martians rather than allowing it to remain on Earth.
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In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics #1 [Regular Edition] published October 2004
as The Menace from Mars [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics #1 published January 2012
as The Menace from Mars [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 16
Disclose Notes: Torch wears a blue costume. He doesn't adopt the Jim Hammond identity until issue #4.
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The Voodoo Sacrifice

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Angel
Character(s): The Angel [Tom Halloway]; The Sacred One (villain, introduction, death); a voodoo cult (villains, introduction)
First Line: Voodoo drums of sacrifice beat louder and more vigorously every second but a few miles from the great city of New York...
Synopsis: The Angel must battle a voodoo cult that has kidnapped young women to sacrifice to their fire god.
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In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics #1 [Regular Edition] published October 2004
as The Voodoo Sacrifice [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics #1 published January 2012
as The Voodoo Sacrifice [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 8
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Enter: Betty Dean

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Prince Namor, Sub-Mariner
Character(s): The Sub-Mariner [Prince Namor]; Inspector Peterson; Betty Dean (introduction); Esther; a Nazi U-boat crew (villains, introduction for all, all die)
First Line: The Sub-Mariner, amphibious demon of the earth, bent on an inspired campaign against the white man -- mainly American -- who has all but obliterated his south Antarctic race
Synopsis: The police concoct a plan to use police officer Betty Dean as bait in a trap to capture the Sub-Mariner, but instead she convinces Namor to fight for the Allies in the war.
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In Content Item: FlagFantasy Masterpieces #7 published February 1967
as Enter: Betty Dean [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics #1 [Regular Edition] published October 2004
as Enter: Betty Dean [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics #1 published January 2012
as Enter: Betty Dean [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
Disclose Notes: Story continued next issue.

Everett signs again on the final page.
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The Land Grabbers

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Feature(s): The Masked Raider
Character(s): Masked Raider [Jim Gardley]; Barney (the sheriff); Jeb Barnes; Dan Barnes; Jed Sirrah (villain, introduction, death?); Brace (villain); Dan (villain)
First Line: Thet's our answer!
Synopsis: The Raider has to deal with a group of outlaws, who are trying to run a man off his run-down ranch in order to get to gold buried in the hills and oil deposits as well. The outlaws decide to frame the owner and have the sheriff run him off.
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In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics #1 [Regular Edition] published October 2004
as The Land Grabbers [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics #1 published January 2012
as The Land Grabbers [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 8
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Origin of the American Ace, Part 2

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: aviation
Feature(s): American Ace
Character(s): American Ace [Perry Wade] (Origin, Part 2); Jeanie; Queen Ursula (villain)
First Line: As roaring flames lick up the ruins of a once beautiful city -- Perry Wade, American, wanders the streets...
Synopsis: Perry takes the girl he saved last month back to her father and sister then heads back to his fight against Queen Ursula. However, he is seriously wounded but returns and is tended to by Jeanie.
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In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics #1 [Regular Edition] published October 2004
as Origin of the American Ace, Part 2 [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics #1 published January 2012
as Origin of the American Ace, Part 2 [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Last golden age American Ace story. A similar or reworked feature titled Lieutenant Lank appears at Centaur in Amazing Mystery Funnies #24 and The Arrow #2.

Next appearance in All-Winners Squad: Band of Heroes (Marvel, 2011 series) #4.
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Siegfried Suicide

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Character(s): Sgt. Bill Stern; the Germans (villains)
Synopsis: Sgt. Stern and his company of men attempt to smash a hole through the German fortifications along the Siegfried Line.
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In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics #1 [Regular Edition] published October 2004
as Siegfried Suicide [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics #1 published January 2012
as Siegfried Suicide [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Story set in World War I.

Text story with illustrations.
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Third Episode

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Feature(s): Adventures of Ka-Zar the Great
Character(s): Ka-Zar [David Rand]; Steve Hardy (introduction); Inkosi; Tuta (an elephant); Trajah (an elephant); Quog (a wild hog); N'Jaga (a leopard); Paul DeKraft (villain)
First Line: One day a caravan, led by a white man, crosses the mountains and rocky gorges to the east of Ka-Zar's jungle home.
Synopsis: A hunter, who has enlisted the aid of local natives in his search for, has a hard time convincing those natives that it was a man [Ka-Zar] who was interfering with their hunt and not a jungle god as they thought.
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In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics #1 [Regular Edition] published October 2004
as Third Episode [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics #1 published January 2012
as Third Episode [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 12
Disclose Notes: Story continued next issue.
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[untitled]

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
First Line: This Beautiful Desk
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Advertisement for Remington Portable Typewriter by Remington Rand Inc. Located inside rear cover.
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[untitled]

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
First Line: 30 Shot Automatic Repeater
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Advertisement for various mail order items by Johnson Smith and Co. Located on rear cover.

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