Digital Comic Museum - National Comics 003 (paper)(now c2c) -upgrade


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Now c2c with ifc and ibc added from paper.
eBay proof of the fills at the end of the file.
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Scanned from a coverless copy, so the fc&bc are from HA.
The comic was very wrinkled.
A freddyfly original!

24-October-2012 9:42 am	\|
Username:	rangerhouse
Comment:	Very Nice Book freddyfly... FYI I just picked up Hit Comics #1 (coverless)
24-October-2012 1:43 pm	\|
Username:	jfglade
Comment:	Will Eisner gets a lot of excitement into just nine pages, Sally O'Neil is involved in a shoot out, and the Wonder Boy and Merlin stories are both solid. Good clear scans of a great issue.

Issue: #3
Published: September 1940, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing:
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age US Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1940, New Series, Vol. 35, No. 3.

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)
Credits:	Letters: typeset
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Uncle Sam Buddy Smith Merlin The Magician (inset) Wonder Boy (inset) Sally O'Neil (inset) Pen Miller (inset)

Comic Story (9 pages)	Yiffendi Invades the Philippines
Synopsis:	Uncle Sam steps in to aid the Philippines against an expansionist power of Mias and his brute of a general, Yiffendi, rallying the locals to take back their land.
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Uncle Sam Buddy Smith Mias (villain, Introduction Death) Yiffendi (villain, Introduction, Death)

Comic Story (6 pages)	War of the Airlines
Genre:	Aviation
Characters:	Prop Powers Mr. Wallace (first Appearance, President Of An Airline)

Comic Story (4 pages)	The Gem of Mrs. Bigstone
Genre:	Detective-mystery
Characters:	Sally O'Neil Shifty Sue (first Appearance, Villain) Shifty Sue's Gang (first Appearance, Villains) Mrs. Bigstone (first Appearance) Gil Moore (first Appearance)

Comic Story (5 pages)	New York Championship Bout
Synopsis:	The heavyweight champion loses his crown to Kid Dixon.
Genre:	Sports
Characters:	Kid Dixon [Danny "Kid" Dixon] Jack Dempsey The Heavyweight Champion (first Appearance)

Comic Story (7 pages)	Dredge's Orphanage
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Merlin The Magician [Jock Kellog] Miss Lovewell (introduction) Mickey (introduction) Dredge (villain, Introduction)

Text Story (2 pages)	The Human Guinea Pig
Featuring:	Yankee Doodle Boy
Credits:	Letters: typeset
Characters:	Yankee Doodle Boy

Comic Story (6 pages)	Rescuing the South American Expedition
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Wonder Boy

Comic Story (5 pages)	The Return of Amnozo
Genre:	Science Fiction Superhero
Characters:	Cyclone Amnozo (villain, Introduction)

Comic Story (5 pages)	Fifth Racket Witness Murdered
Genre:	Detective-mystery
Characters:	Pen Miller Nuckle (first Appearance, Villain) Benny Slugesi (first Appearance, Villain) A Lawyer (first Appearance, Villain, Death) Various Gangsters (first Appearance, Villains, Death) Miss Bystand (first Appearance)

Comic Story (6 pages)	Olesen's Revenge
Genre:	Fantasy
Characters:	Paul Bunyan Olesen (first Appearance, Villain, Death)

Comic Story (2 pages)
Genre:	Humor
Characters:	Windy Breeze

Comic Story (5 pages)	The Prince and the Pauper: 1940
Genre:	Adventure Humor Children
Characters:	Kid Patrol Percy (first Appearance, Joins The Kid Patrol) Duke And His Gang (first Appearance, Villains)

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