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| Additional Information | |
| Name | Yellowjacket Comics 3 | Published |
| Publication | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 52 |
| Notes | Some corrected story information from Jim Ludwig (February 2005). No indicia present. |
| Cover | 1 page |
| Feature | Yellowjacket; Diana the Huntress |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | Yellowjacket [Vince Harley]; Diana the Huntress |
| Pencils | Ken Battefield |
| Inks | Ken Battefield |
| Notes | Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. credits the art to Battefield. The insert artwork of Diana the Huntress is taken from the final panel of her story in Yellowjacket #1, art by Gus Schrotter. |
| Comic Story | The Curse of the Broken Claw / Yellowjacket (9 pages) |
| Synopsis | At a military hospital some patients die as a doctor injects them with crab serum to grow new limbs. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | Yellowjacket [Vince Harley]; Major Vinson; Andy Douglas; Doc Krause; Bramm |
| Pencils | Ken Battefield |
| Notes | Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. credits Battefield on pencils. |
| Comic Story | No Title (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Diana and gods from Mt. Olympus descend in wrath on a Nazi convoy approaching Greece. |
| Feature | Diana the Huntress |
| Genre | Fantasy; Superhero; War |
| Characters | Diana the Huntress; Hercules; Jupiter; Mercury; Discordia |
| Pencils | Leo Morey |
| Inks | Leo Morey |
| First Line | Greece, land of culture and courage, is turned into a scene of starvation and death by the vengeful Nazis. |
| Notes | The figures and female faces match well Morey's later signed story in Adventures into the Unknown (American Comics Group, 1948 series) #104. Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. also credits Morey with the art. |
| Text Story | Killer (2 pages) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Genre | Crime |
| Comic Story | The Pit and the Pendulum / Famous Tales of Terror (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Adapted from a story by Edgar Allan Poe. A man sentenced by the Inquisition to a horrible death in a dark pit, bound and waiting for a swinging, descending pendulum to cut him in half but is saved by rats gnawing on his straps. |
| Genre | Horror-suspense |
| Pencils | Gus Schrotter |
| Inks | Gus Schrotter ? |
| Notes | The art is very similar to his Diana the Huntress stories and his signed story in Camera Comics (US Camera, 1944 series) #6. Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. credits him only on pencils. |
| Story | Debunker (1 page) |
| First Line | The flying fox is not a fox... but a large bat |
| Story | King of the Beasts (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Two circus artista are killed, and Danny uses the lion to track the murderer. |
| Genre | Adventure |
| Characters | Danny King; Zelda; Doris; Thurman; Jerry Thimble; Roscoe; Ganery; Sahara (lion) |
| Pencils | Harold DeLay |
| Inks | Harold DeLay |
| First Line | Can you solve these clues? |
| Notes | DeLay can be recognized by the "slow" movement of the rather short figures. Also faces and the layout style more like old book illustrations. |
| Story | Harbor Lights (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | A killer meets a black garbed figure on the road who predicts his death, and shortly after he is drafted into the army where he meets his end. |
| Genre | Crime |
| Characters | Gunner Thompson |
| Pencils | Rudy Palais |
| Inks | Rudy Palais |
| First Line | This is a story about Gunner Thompson... |
| Notes | Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. credits Palais on the art. |
| Story | Bee Lines (1 page) |
| Synopsis | 5 gag panels |
| Genre | Humor; War |
| Characters | Simple Suzie |
| Script | W. Carroll ? |
| Pencils | W. Carroll (signed) |
| Inks | W. Carroll (signed) |
| First Line | Gregg has been doing that ever since he heard a rumor that Congress repealed the law of gravity! |
| Story | Filipino Kid (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Armed with only with a bolo knife, the Filipino Kid leads his marauders against the murder master of Manila, Captain Oshikama. |
| Genre | War |
| Characters | Captain Oshikama |
| Pencils | George Gregg |
| Inks | George Gregg |
| First Line | Brutally oppressed beneath the heel of the conqueror's boot, our Filipino fellow-citizen reaps ruthless revenge -- |
| Notes | Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. credits Gregg with this art. |
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