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Issue: Exciting Comics #3 (21) Public Domain
Publication Date: August 1942
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Issues: #3 (21) of 69 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagPines
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Better Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 05/25/1942
Volume: 7
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 11 (10 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Ned Pines ?
Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1942, New Series, Vol. 37, No. 3.
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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
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Black Terror [Bob Benton]; Tim [Tim Roland]
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Cover marquee: "A New Feature The Liberator!.... In This Issue"
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Terror Twins [The Black Terror [Bob Benton]; Tim Roland]; Jean Starr; Commissioner Gordon; Warner (crook)
First Line: Bob Benton, meek young druggist...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
Disclose Notes: writer credit suggested by textual analysis from Lou Mougin
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Liberator [Professor Nelson Drew]; Annabel Evans; Nemo (villain)
First Line: Transformed by Lamesis...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, aviation
Character(s): Tom 'Crash' Carter; Looie Tizzle; Horace 'Stew' Kent; Loess (Nazi spy); Miller (Nazi spy)
First Line: We've drawn a bomber in the cross-country flight!
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Pages: 7
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The Secret of the Singing Tomb

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Character(s): Pepper Swift (introduction); Buzz Ward (introduction); Abdul; The Princess (a magic lantern projection)
First Line: Great Scott! A mummy!!
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Pages: 7
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Larry Burns Out a Hornet's Nest

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Character(s): Lieutenant Larry North, U.S. Navy; Betty Harmon
First Line: Look, Larry! One of those two-man Jap submarines!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Bellem credit suggested by Jerry Bails's Who's Who.
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The Right Brand

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (2 spot illustrations)
Inker(s): ? (2 spot illustrations)
Colorist(s): ? (2 spot illustrations)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Character(s): Ted Singletree; Buck Grason
First Line: Ted Singletree was proud...
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Pages: 1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Character(s): Sergeant Bill King; Blacksmith the Magician; Dunkel (Nazi spy)
First Line: Better hurry for the USO vaudeville show, Sarge!
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Pages: 6
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Ted Crane; Betty; Delain; Norbert (Nazi spy); Sobel (Nazi spy)
First Line: In the native quarter of Hanoi...
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Pages: 8
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Eagle's Flight

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (2 spot illustrations)
Inker(s): ? (2 spot illustrations)
Colorist(s): ? (2 spot illustrations)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Character(s): Arthur Durham
First Line: Arthur Durham was fond of model airplanes.
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Pages: 1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Character(s): Jim Hatfield; Hank; Cap Main; Al Pasley (crook)
First Line: Cap Main -- up at Silverton -- is in trouble, Jim!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: last appearance
For this story only, the Feature Logo is "Jim Hatfield".

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