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Issue: Liberty Scouts Comics #3 Public Domain
Publication Date: August 1941
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Issues: #3 of 2 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagCentaur
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Comic Corporation of America
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.15 CAD
$0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 14 (9 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Joseph Hardie (uncredited)
Disclose Notes: August, 1941. Number 3. Liberty Scouts Comics is published bi-monthly by Comic Corporation of America, 215 Fourth Ave., New York, N. Y. Entered as second class matter February 20, 1941 at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the Act of March 3, 1879. Single copies 10c (15c in Canada). Yearly subscription 60c in the U. S. A. (other countries 85c). Copyright, 1941, by Comic Corporation of America. Contents must not be reproduced without permission. No actual person is named or delineated in this fiction magazine. Printed in the U. S. A.
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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 series
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, military
Feature(s): Liberty Scouts / Guards
Character(s): Liberty Scouts [Smokey Henry; Skipper Henry; Strut Henry]
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Pages: 1
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This Beautiful Desk for only $1.00

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Feature(s): Remington Noiseless Deluxe Portable Typewriter
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: adventure, military
Character(s): Liberty Scouts [Smokey Henry; Skipper Henry; Strut Henry]; Mr. P. Henry (the Scouts' father); President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
First Line: I hearby swear in each of you as a special U. S. agent
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Pages: 15
Disclose Notes: next appearance in Man of War Comics (Centaur, 1941 series) #1
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On Guard!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ? [as Smokey]
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Subject Matter
Feature(s): Liberty Guards Comics
Character(s): Liberty Guards [Smokey Henry; Skipper Henry; Strut Henry] (renamed from Liberty Scouts)
Synopsis: Letter explaining that the team and magazine name are changing to the Liberty Guards and Liberty Guards Comics respectively due to the characters' uniforms not being Scout uniforms and because the Boy Scouts of America were concerned that readers may think the magazine was being published by them.
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Genres: humorous
First Line: I demand a recount!
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Four single-panel humor cartoons. According to Jerry Bails' Who's Who, Ray Houlihan scripted his fillers and his other Centaur stories.
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Man of War; Karl Steel
First Line: Mighty Mars, god of war, dissatisfied with the progress of the aggressor...
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: next appearance in Man of War Comics (Centaur, 1941 series) #1

Many dispute the common Paul Gustavson pencils/inks credit for this. While a number of Man of War's poses are similar, compared to the previous story the faces are different, the figures are less detailed and fluid, and the action is less dynamic. The flaming sword is rendered with a different effect, the explosion marking Man of War's appearance is less detailed, and the ink line is much heavier throughout the story.
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Vapo-Man [Bradford Cole]; Chief of Defence Enright
First Line: Purple plague hits defence industries in U.S.
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: next appearance in Man of War Comics (Centaur, 1941 series) #1
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Midnight Mantrap

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): First Grade Detective Ray Steele; China Chasrlie
First Line: The bamboo-strip curtains whispered....
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Genres: adventure
Character(s): Red Riley (introduction); Karp (villain)
First Line: Introducing Red Riley, the hard-boiled fighting officer...
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: next appearance in Man of War Comics (Centaur, 1941 series) #1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Sentinel (introduction, origin); The Spirit of America; Fritz (Nazi); Otto Rader (Nazi Spy-Chief in America)
First Line: 1783! The American Revolution has been won!
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Fire-Man [Jim]; Nancy
First Line: I'll admit I don't know a thing about a car
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: next appearance in Man of War Comics (Centaur, 1941 series) #1

Jerry Bails' Who's Who confirms that Filchock scripted his Fire-Man stories.
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Genres: adventure, humorous
Character(s): Dopey Danny Day; Izzy
First Line: What're ya' doin Dopey?
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: next appearance in Man of War Comics (Centaur, 1941 series) #1
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Lt. Frank Luke, Jr.

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: aviation, biography, non-fiction
Feature(s): Amazing Airmen
Character(s): Lt. Frank Luke, Jr.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Jerry Bails' Who's Who confirms that Kaliff scripted his own fillers.

Inside back cover.
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You Too Can Be a Liberty Guard!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Feature(s): Liberty Guards
Synopsis: Coupon to use to enroll as a Liberty Guard.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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