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| Name | Big 3 1 (paper/5fiche) | Published |
| Publication | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 68 | Frequency: quarterly |
| 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. 4. Indicia starts "Big 3 Fall Edition, 1940, No. 1". |
| Cover | The Adventures of the 3 World's Greatest Heroes! / 1 page |
| Advertisement | Refresh with Kooba (1 page) |
| Feature | Kooba |
| Letters | ?; typeset |
| First Line | The long tall drink that's tangy and cooling as an ocean breeze! |
| Notes | Interior front cover with indicia. Kooba Cola Drink was a marketing ploy by Victor Fox and did not exist. |
| Comic Story | Borgo, the Mirror Murderer / Blue Beetle (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. |
| 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) |
| Pencils | Charles Nicholas (signed) |
| Inks | Charles Nicholas (signed) |
| First Line | Smashing down upon the underworld rackets comes the Blue Beetle... |
| Comic Story | The Inner Crime Ring / Samson and David (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. |
| Characters | Samson; David; Professor Brun; Dr. Blood (villain, introduction, death) |
| Pencils | Al Carreño (signed) |
| Inks | Al Carreño (signed) |
| First Line | Out of the mists of history comes the Mighty Samson. |
| Comic Story | The Jewel Smuggling Murders / The Flame (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. |
| Characters | The Flame [Gary Preston]; The Water-Front Gang [Spike, rest un-named](villains, introduction, death for all) |
| Pencils | Basil Berold (signed) |
| Inks | Basil Berold (signed) |
| First Line | So you were going to squeal to the D.A.; you won't be able to squeal from now on! |
| 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. |
| Comic Story | The Shylock Menace / The Flame (9 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Flame battles a murdering gang of money lenders, who are trying to bleed dry people who borrowed money from them. |
| Characters | The Flame [Gary Preston]; Spike and other gangsters (villains, introduction, deaths of all) |
| Pencils | Basil Berold (signed) |
| Inks | Basil Berold (signed) |
| First Line | So you haven't got the money...this'll be a lesson to you...you'll pay up next time! |
| 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. |
| 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! |
| Pencils | ? (two illustrations) |
| Inks | ? (two illustrations) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Characters | Captain Hetherington; Hardy; Captain Van Der Decken; Korvettenskapitan von Martz (villain); Oberleutnant von Seidorff (villain); Rothmann (villain) |
| Script | Nathaniel Nitkin |
| First Line | Himmel, look at that! |
| 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. |
| Pencils | various |
| Inks | various |
| Letters | typeset |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | Samson; the Flame; Blue Beetle; The Dart; Green Mask; Rex Dexter; Ace |
| First Line | 9 leaders among comic magazines! Every issue a touchdown! |
| Notes | Sequence added by Craig Delich 2010-1-10. |
| Comic Story | The Ultimatum of Lobar / Cosmic Carson (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! |
| Characters | Cosmic Carson; Lobar (villain, introduction, death); Gargantuans (villains, introduction, death) |
| Pencils | Michael Griffith (signed) |
| Inks | Michael Griffith (signed) |
| First Line | I, Lobar, demand a base for our battle rockets on Earth. |
| Notes | Michael Griffith was a pen-name for Jack Kirby, but the art here doesn't appear to be by him. |
| Comic Story | The Submarine City / Dr. Doom (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. |
| Characters | Gordon; Wanda; Jan; Jim; Dr. Doom (villain); Venusians [Jarg, rest un-named](villains, introduction) |
| Pencils | Dick Briefer (signed) |
| Inks | Dick Briefer (signed) |
| 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. |
| Publisher advertisement | The Blue Beetle Coast to Coast / Blue Beetle (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Promotional ad for the Blue Beetle radio show. |
| Letters | typeset |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | Blue Beetle |
| First Line | Consult your local newspaper, or better call your favorite local station, for the schedule of this super-thriller. |
| Notes | Sequence added by Craig Delich 2010-1-10. Sequence updated by Dave Redmond 2024-11-16. |
| Advertisement | Shop by Mail / Johnson Smith & Co. Catalog (1 page) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Interior back cover. Full page of novelty advertisements. |
| Advertisement | Yo-Ho-Ho and a Bottle of Kobe! (1 page) |
| Feature | Kooba |
| Letters | typeset |
| First Line | Come on, boys and girls, get on the trail of treasure! |
| Notes | Back cover. |
| The data in the additional content section is courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under a Creative Commons Attribution License. More details about this comic may be available in their page here | |
