Boy Comics
#3
(April 1942)
Lev Gleason,
1942 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1942-01-19
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Comic House Inc.
- Brand
- Published by Comic House Inc.
- Editing
- Lev Gleason (credited) (editor, publisher)
Issue Notes
The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1942, New Series, Vol. 37, No. 2.
[no title indexed]
Crimebuster / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Bob Wood ?
- Inks
- Bob Wood ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Charles Biro (logo design, see notes)
- Genre
- children; superhero; crime
- Characters
- Crimebuster; Bombshell; Swoop Storm; Pepper Casey
Indexer Notes
Logo design credit from Todd Klein via his Facebook posting Comics Logos B #69: BOY COMICS on 26 May 2021.
[Origin of Crimebuster]
Crimebuster / comic story / 13 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Of what stuff are heroes made?
- Genre
- adventure; children; superhero; crime
- Characters
- Crimebuster [Chuck Chandler] (introduction, origin); Mr. Chandler (introduction, death); Mrs. Chandler (introduction, death); Squeeks (a monkey, Crimebuster's pet, introduction); Iron Jaw [Von Schmidt] (introduction); Hansel
- Reprints
-
in Boy Comics (Lev Gleason, 1942 series) #30 (October 1946) [redrawn] - in Crimebuster (Lev Gleason, 2023 series) #1 (May 2023) [first 7 pages only]
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Shadows in the Night
Young Robinhood / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- children; superhero
- Characters
- Young Robinhood (first appearance)
Welcome Crimebuster!
illustration / 1 page
- Genre
- children; superhero
- Characters
- Crimebuster; Sqeeks, Daredevil
Indexer Notes
Daredevil welcomes Crimebuster
Case of Michael "Red" MacGonigle
Case #1001 / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Dick Wood (credited)
- Pencils
- Edd Ashe (credited as Ed Ashe Jr.)
- Inks
- Edd Ashe (credited as Ed Ashe Jr.)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- crime
The Boy of To-Day in the Land of Yesteryear
Yankee Longago / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Dick Briefer (credited)
- Pencils
- Dick Briefer (credited)
- Inks
- Dick Briefer (credited)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Characters
- George "Yankee" Longago (first appearance)
Daredevil Meets the Monster of Martinique
Daredevil / text story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Daredevil stood on the peak of Mount Titian and gazed out over the sea of...
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Daredevil [Bart Hill]; Remanjon
- Keywords
- Matinique
[Introducing the Midget Mauler]
Pepper Casey / comic story / 6 pages
- Characters
- Pepper Casey (first appearance)
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
Crimebuster -
1.
[Origin of Crimebuster]
Crimebuster -
2.
Shadows in the Night
Young Robinhood -
3.
Welcome Crimebuster!
-
4.
Case of Michael "Red" MacGonigle
Case #1001 -
5.
[Swoop Saves a Plane]
Swoop Storm -
6.
The Boy of To-Day in the Land of Yesteryear
Yankee Longago -
7.
Daredevil Meets the Monster of Martinique
Daredevil -
8.
[Introducing the Midget Mauler]
Pepper Casey -
9.
George Noble
Boy Comics Hero of the Month -
10.
Son of War
Bombshell
This issue was modified by, among others
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Gregory Fischer
- Del Gruber
- Mike Nielsen
- Tony R. Rose
- Jim Van Dore
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