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Issue: Exciting Comics #3 (3) Public Domain
Publication Date: June 1940
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Issues: #3 (3) of 69 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagPines
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Better Publications, Inc.
On Sale Date: 05/02/1940
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 12 (11 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Ned Pines [as N.L. Pines] (president)
Disclose Notes: Some info verified using a DCM scan (http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/).

On sale date from the publication date found at the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 35, 1940, Number 2. Second class permit. Copyright number 455852.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover, newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): L. North
Inker(s): L. North
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): The Space Rovers
Character(s): Ted Hunt; Jane Martin
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Robot Masters of Venus

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Max Plaisted (signed)
Inker(s): Max Plaisted (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): The Space Rovers
Character(s): Amok (introduction, death); King Tharrko (introduction); Venusians (introduction); The "evil gods" (villains, introduction, death)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
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Ted Crane in the City of Gold

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): George Mandel [as Geo Mandel] (signed)
Inker(s): George Mandel [as Geo Mandel] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Ted Crane
Character(s): Gruenfeld (villain, introduction)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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The Takeover of Jim Gotch

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Kin Platt (signed)
Inker(s): Kin Platt (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): The Mask
Character(s): Jim Gotch (villain, introduction)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Signed on the last panel of the fifth page. Art was previously attributed to Raymond Thayer.
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The Red Light of Dr. Hodl

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): George Mandel
Penciller(s): George Mandel [as Gene Kamen] (signed)
Inker(s): George Mandel [as Gene Kamen] (signed)
Colorist(s): George Mandel
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Thesson, Son of the Gods
Character(s): Dr. Hodl (villain, introduction, death); Gen. Pasko (villain, introduction)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
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The Collins Case

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Ray Lowry
Inker(s): Ray Lowry
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Dan Williams, Private Investigator
Character(s): Collins (villain, introduction); Dr. Palumbo (villain, introduction)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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Special Detective

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Frank Johnson
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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In Berlin

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Leonard Sansone
Inker(s): Leonard Sansone
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Sergeant Bill King
Character(s): Nazis (villains); Carr (introduction)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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Case of the Crown Jewels

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Kin Platt?
Inker(s): Kin Platt?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): The Sphinx
Character(s): Countess Petrovich (introduction); Prince Alexis (introduction); Whitford (villain, introduction); Blackie Lewis (villain, introduction)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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Robbers' Boots

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Sam Brant
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Johnny Blue [later Jimmy Blue] (introduction)
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Pages: 1
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Crisis in Concho

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Jim Hatfield, Texas Ranger
Character(s): Bull Jeffrey (villain, introduction); Duffield (villain, introduction)
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Pages: 7
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So you're the tough guy on our block!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Klaus Nordling
Penciller(s): Klaus Nordling [as Nord] (signed)
Inker(s): Klaus Nordling [as Nord] (signed)
Colorist(s): Klaus Nordling
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Make-Believe Mickey
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2

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