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Issue: The Informer #3 Public Domain
Publication Date: August 1954
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Issues: #3 of 5 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagSterling
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Sterling Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 05/28/1954
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 13 (5 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was ongoing
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Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): The Informer
First Line: This is the last stop on the subway for you, buddy!
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Pages: 1
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Do You Need Money?

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Disclose Notes: Inside front cover. Also includes indicia.

An advertisement for selling cards.
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Death Has Your Number

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Genres: crime, mystery
Feature(s): Sergeant Mark Fabian
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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Operation Kids!

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Genres: crime
Feature(s): The Cop
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Pages: 7
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The Full Circle

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: mystery
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Pages: 2
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314 Stamps

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: An advertisement for stamps from the Zenith Company.
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Readin', Writin', and Rackets

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Feature(s): Sergeant Mark Fabian
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Mike Sekowsky pencils per Ger Apeldoorn. Nick Caputo credits Ross Andru.

Per Error Report #11682 (https://errors.comics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11682), May 1, 2018, Apeldoorn states "The first and third story share similarities with the Sekowsky stories, but that may be because they have the same inker or because Sekowsky (who was in some way involved with all Sterling books) did some work on splash pages and repairs. As for who drew those two, although I am tempted to say it's the work of Bill Walton (another alumnus of Standard, like Sekowsky and Andru), I will go out on a limb and suggest Mike Roy (who used Sekowsky on his own newspaper strip Mike Hammer at that time).
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Look for the Hard-Hitting Twin Brother to the Informer

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Disclose Notes: A promotional house advertisement for The Tormented (Sterling, 1954 series).
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A Fool and His Gold

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Genres: espionage
Feature(s): Luke the Spook
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Pages: 6
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Reversible Auto Seat Covers

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Disclose Notes: An advertisement for car seat covers and other novelties.
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Get Your Share from the Horn of Plenty

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Disclose Notes: A promotional advertisement for winning a prize for writing a letter about which was the best story in the comic. The contest was to close on August 31, 1954.
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Stop Belly Bloated With Gas

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Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.

An advertisement for Magay Gold and White tablets.
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For Real Job Security

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: On the back cover of the comic.

An advertisement for lessons from International Correspondence Schools.

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