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| Kudos to Kewi for adding another Rocket Kelly with this excellent c2c scan of RK3. This is only his 3rd scan and 2nd edit, not too shabby :) |
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| Publication | June-July 1946 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Bi-Monthly |
| Notes | Art identification based on how the rocket and smoke on this cover is consistent with how they’re drawn on Stoner’s signed cover for Rocket Kelly #5 (October, 1946). |
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| Featuring | Rocket Kelly |
| Credits | Pencils: E. C. Stoner | Inks: E. C. Stoner |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction |
| Notes | Art identification based on how the rocket and smoke on this cover is consistent with how they’re drawn on Stoner’s signed cover for Rocket Kelly #5 (October, 1946). |
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| Synopsis | House ad for Fox comics (5 bi-monthly and 6 quarterly titles). |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Reproduces covers of Blue Beetle 33, All Top 2, Green Mask volume 2 number 4 (15), Zoot Comics 1. A cover of Rocket Kelly comics is also shown, but the art does not match the covers of any published Rocket Kelly issue. It bears some resemblance to Rocket Kelly 2 (but flipped and with different details).
Inside front cover, black-and-white. |
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| Comic Story | Adventure of the Lost Sky-World (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | Rocket and his friends discover the prehistoric Lost Sky-World in the Andes mountains. Stranded explorer Evanson says the inhabitants plan to take over the Earth with their fantastic inventions, including "atomships" and giant insects. Rocket destroys them all. |
| Featuring | Rocket Kelly |
| Credits | Script:? [as Ted Small] |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Rocket Kelly; Sue; Punchy; Captain Evanson |
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| Comic Story | How the famous malamute... (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | In 1925, Kasson and his sled dogs--led by Balto--deliver diptheria serum to snow-bound Nome, Alaska. |
| Featuring | Canine Cavalcade |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Non-fiction | Characters: Gunnar Kasson |
| Notes | Based on a true story. Gunnar "Kasson" was actually Gunnar Kaasen. There was a 1995 animated film titled "Balto" about the dog. |
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| Text Story | Mystery of the Lost Expedition (2 pages) |
| Credits | Script: Cy Clone | Letters: typeset |
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| Comic Story | Whoever heard of a talkin' sphinx? (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | Rocket and his friends aid his father and Professor Marco in a project to reclaim the desert of Egypt. However, Professor Marco tries to sabotage the project and kill Rocket and the others, because there is valuable uranium under the desert. Marco dies and "the desert shall bloom" (or at least glow with radioactivity). |
| Featuring | Rocket Kelly |
| Credits | Script:? [as Ted Small] |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Rocket Kelly; Punchy; Diana; Professor Kelly; Professor Marco |
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| Comic Story | Saga of the Silver Saddle (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Kit wants to win a prize silver saddle for performing a deed of valor. He eventually gets it by rescuing young Marybelle from drowning, after an eagle drops her in a river. |
| Featuring | Kit of the Canyon |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Kit; Tio; Mrs. Stout; Marybelle |
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