Issue: #3
Published: November 1941, Price: 0.10 USD; 0.15 CAD, Pages: 100, Editing: Alfred Harvey
Color: Color Dimensions: Digest Size Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Notes: POCKET COMICS, Volume 1, Number 3, NOVEMBER 1941. Published Bi-monthly by Alfred Harvey, 67 West 44th Street, New York, N. Y. Entered as second class matter April 18, 1941, at the Post Office in New York, under Act of March 3, 1879. Price 10 cents per copy. In Canada 15 cents per copy. Subscription for six issues, 60 cents in U. S. A. (Other countries 85 cents). No actual person is named or delineated in this fiction magazine.
Printed in U. S. A.
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| Comic Story (12 pages) |
Six Hours to Live |
| Credits: |
Script: ? (Ellery King) |
| Comic Story (12 pages) |
The Return of Dr. Skull |
| Synopsis: |
Thinking Dr. Skull dead, but bewildered by the fact that Skull's body has not been found, Blazer contacts Dr. Morgan by Visophone, who introduces him to his niece. Just then, the image is disrupted and screams are heard. Blazer sets out for Washington to save him, but discovers an invading forces dropping bombs on the Capitol, and seeks to deal with them while Skull captures the doctor and niece, and his Heat Control formula. Blazer manages to save them and Skull apparently dies. |
| Genre: |
Superhero |
| Characters: |
Red Blazer [Jack Dawson] Dr. Morgan Andrea (Dr. Morgan's Niece, Introduction) Dr. Skull (villain) Skull's Slaves (villains) |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
Duel with Fritz Kahn |
| Comic Story (2 pages) |
Bayonet Practice |
| Comic Story (11 pages) |
The Faked Death of Garboil |
| Synopsis: |
While filming "Mr. Brown goes to Washington," Commander Jones invites Garboil's cast to a party. Jones has invented a bombsight to use against the Axis powers. He is kidnapped from the party and Black Cat and Rick separately decide to investigate. They find Garboil dead. They trace Garboil's killers and Jones' kidnappers to a boat on its way to meet a U-boat. They stop the Nazis and rescue both Jones and Garboil, who is alive. They discover that the dead Garboil was the director's twin, Fritz, who abandoned the Nazis when he saw how Americans lived. |
| Genre: |
Superhero |
| Characters: |
Black Cat [Linda Turner] Rick Horne Commander Paul Jones Garboil (villain) Fritz Garboil(introduction, Death) |
| Activity (2 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
Can You Solve These Puzzlers? |
| Text Article (2 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
Meet the Stars |
| Text Story (1 page) |
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| Credits: |
Letters: typeset |
| Genre: |
Humor |
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