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| Publication | Fall 1940 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: quarterly |
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| Cover | The Adventures of the 3 World's Greatest Heroes |
| Content | Characters: Blue Beetle; Samson, the Flame; David (inset) |
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| Comic Story | Borgo, the Mirror Murderer (15 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Blue Beetle and Joan go after a vicious criminal mastermind, who seeks to murder the James brothers, a group of scientists who once fired him for stealing radium. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Blue Beetle [Dan Garret]; Joan Mason; Mike Mannigan; Ralph James (death); Frank James (death); Allan James (death); Fred James; Dell James; Dr. Frantz; Borgo (villain, introduction) |
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| Comic Story | The Inner Crime Ring (13 pages) |
| Synopsis | Samson has to battle the vicious Dr. Blood and his "Inner Crime Ring, which, because it needs capital, goes on a robbery spree, killing anyone who gets in their way. |
| Content | Characters: Samson; David; Professor Brun; Dr. Blood (villain, introduction, death) |
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| Comic Story | The Jewel Smuggling Murders (9 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Flame battles a ruthless gang of jewel smugglers, saving a girl several times in the process, whose intent was to squeal to the District Attorney about the gang's activities. |
| Content | Characters: The Flame [Gary Preston]; The Water-Front Gang [Spike, rest un-named](villains, introduction, death for all) |
| Notes | The artist working under the "Basil Berold" byline is mimicking Lou Fine's style. Art information from Bill Black, confirmed by Gary Watson in June, 2009. |
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| Comic Story | The Shylock Menace (9 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Flame battles a murdering gang of money lenders, who are trying to bleed dry people who borrowed money from them. |
| Content | Characters: The Flame [Gary Preston]; Spike and other gangsters (villains, introduction, deaths of all) |
| Notes | The artist working under the "Basil Berold" byline is mimicking Lou Fine's style. Art information from Bill Black, confirmed by Gary Watson in June, 2009. |
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| Text Story | The Flying Dutchman Goes Modern (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | German U-Boat U-134 found a likely target and rose to the surface to attack. But none of the shells had any impact on the ship, which they discovered, to their horror, to be The Flying Dutchman! |
| Credits | Pencils:? (two illustrations) | Inks:? (two illustrations) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Characters: Captain Hetherington; Hardy; Captain Van Der Decken; Korvettenskapitan von Martz (villain); Oberleutnant von Seidorff (villain); Rothmann (villain) |
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| Publisher advertisement | What a Team! (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Illustrated house promotional ad for the 9 leading comics the company produced, including un-numbered covers to issues of Rex Dexter, The Green Mask, The Flame, Samson, Fantastic, Mystery Men, Weird, the Blue Beetle and Wonderworld Comics. |
| Credits | Pencils: various | Inks: various | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Samson; the Flame; Blue Beetle; The Dart; Green Mask; Rex Dexter; Ace |
| Notes | Sequence added by Craig Delich 2010-1-10. |
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| Comic Story | The Ultimatum of Lobar (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | In denying Lobar a base for his battle rockets on Earth, Carson must fend off an invasion force from the villain, who hopes to wipe out the earthlings and become ruler of the universe. All of Carson's rockets are destroyed except his, and he and his men are then strapped to tables by Lobar, and his scientists are set to inject them with a serum which creates a chemical gas that bloats the human body to three times its normal size before it explodes! |
| Content | Characters: Cosmic Carson; Lobar (villain, introduction, death); Gargantuans (villains, introduction, death) |
| Notes | Michael Griffith was a pen-name for Jack Kirby, but the art here doesn't appear to be by him. |
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| Comic Story | The Submarine City (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Jan and Wanda enter a weird underwater city, inhabited by Venusians, who plan to conquer the Earth as soon as Dr. Doom changes the Earth's atmosphere to that of Venus. |
| Content | Characters: Gordon; Wanda; Jan; Jim; Dr. Doom (villain); Venusians [Jarg, rest un-named](villains, introduction) |
| Notes | Page count corrected from 7 to 8 by an error report from Len Wolinsky, who notes that the pages in the comic are numbered 1, 2, 3, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 (note the two page 3's). Art identification by Bill Black, confirmed by Gary Watson in June, 2009. |
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| Publisher advertisement | The Blue Beetle Coast to Coast (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Promotional ad for the Blue Beetle radio show. |
| Featuring | Blue Beetle |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Blue Beetle |
| Notes | Sequence added by Craig Delich 2010-1-10. |
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