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Issue: The Three Stooges #28
Publication Date: May 1966
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Issues: #28 of 46 Issues (51 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagWestern
Brand: Gold KeyView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: K. K. Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 03/10/1966
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 11 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: Cover code: 10005-605. (c) 1966 by Norman Maurer Productions, Inc. On-sale date from 1966 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age US
Paper Stock: newsprint
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing
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Operation Cold-Fingers!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Penciller(s): ? (photo)
Inker(s): ? (photo)
Colorist(s): ? (photo)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Three Stooges [Moe Howard; Larry Fine; Curly Joe DeRita]
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Parody of The Man from U.N.C.L.E and the James Bond movie "Goldfinger"
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Curly Joe's Raincoat to the Rescue

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Three Stooges [Moe Howard; Larry Fine; Curly Joe DeRita]
Synopsis: Curly's coat to the rescue of a damsel in distress.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover, in black and white
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Operation Cold-Fingers

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Three Stooges [Moe Howard; Larry Fine; Curly Joe DeRita]; N.E.P.H.E.W agents; SPARROW Agents
Synopsis: Looking for jobs, the Stooges are picked for the "man in the white carnation in his lapel", and find themselves working for N.E.P.H.E.W. They're sent in a high-tech jetski/helicopter to the North Pole. Blundering along, they rescue Agent 102 (female) who says SPARROW is out to disrupt the weather and world-wide communications with a giant magnet. The Stooges bollix along, scotch the bad guys, and save the day.
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Pages: 24
Disclose Notes: N.E.P.H.E.W. is a parody of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. SPARROW is a parody of U.N.C.L.E.'s enemy THRUSH. "Operation Cold-Fingers" is a play on the James Bond movie "Goldfinger". Agents 000 and 102 are parodies of James Bond's ID of Agent 007.
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Dear Stooges:
Synopsis: The Stooges answer readers' letters with corny jokes.
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Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Three Stooges [Moe Howard; Larry Fine; Curly Joe DeRita]
First Line: Now, if we could only get a date, we could all go on a hayride!
Synopsis: The Stooges call a date for an old-fashioned hayride.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Little Monsters ['Orrible Orvie; Awful Annie]; Mildew (father); Dirty Dan
First Line: Hi, Pop! We've borrowed some of Dr. Frankenfurter's...
Synopsis: The Little Monsters and Pop enter a car race that veers into a cave, then a castle full of monsters.
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Pages: 3.5
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Statement of Ownership, Management, and Circulation

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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Synopsis: Average no. of copies each issue during the preceding 12 months = 449,939. That includes subscriptions, news agent sales, free, and "Office Use, Left-over, Unaccounted, Spoiled after Printing" (160,350). Single issue nearest to filing date = 402,529.
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Disclose Notes: Sales have increased from previous runs of approx. 323,000, and the book has gone from quarterly last month to bi-monthly this month.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Three Stooges [Moe Howard; Larry Fine; Curly Joe DeRita]
First Line: Say, she's cute!
Synopsis: Curly Joe winks at the waitress with the wrong result.
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Polaris Nuclear Sub

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Synopsis: As for a mail-order "Polaris Nuclear Sub"
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover, in black and white
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Gold Key - The World Famous Comics

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): Various
Inker(s): Various
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Synopsis: House ad for Gold Key comics: Bonanza, The Munsters, Walt Disney's Comics and Stories; The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
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Disclose Notes: Inside back cover, in black and white
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Make Money, Get Prizes, with Fast Selling American Seeds

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Synopsis: Ad for American Seed Co.
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Disclose Notes: Back cover, in color

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