Power Comics
#3
([August 1945])
Narrative,
1945 Series
- Volume
- ?
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- ?
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- ?
- Brand
- ?
- Editing
- L. B. Cole ?
Issue Notes
The book itself is undated anywhere. Date is a best guess based on William Woolfolk's records and Keltner's Index.
Cut Rate Crimes
Black Raider / comic story / 12 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Black Raider [Gordon Summers]
Indexer Notes
Woolfolk's records indicate he wrote at least one Black Raider story. This is probably it.
Previously appeared in Mask Comics #2.
[no title indexed]
Chin Chop / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Chin Chop, the world's worst detective...
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Chin Chop
[no title indexed]
Dr. Mephisto / comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Here is a tale of the diabolical Dr. Mephisto...
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Dr. Mephisto (Introduction)
Indexer Notes
Art ID by David Saunders at <http://www.pulpartists.com/Emerson.html> (September 2013).
[no title indexed]
Miss Espionage, the International Detective / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Bill Woolfolk ?
- Pencils
- Rudy Palais [as R. Palais] (signed)
- Inks
- Rudy Palais [as R. Palais] (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Out of the smoke and flame of war...
- Genre
- detective-mystery
- Characters
- Miss Espionage [daughter of Mata Hari] (introduction; origin, villain that has reformed); Major Smithson (introduction, intelligence officer); Mati Hari (villain, spy, death, cameo); Count von Bruno (villain, Mati Hari's teacher, introduction, death)
- Synopsis
- Allied HQ inside Germany assigns Major Smithson the task of locating the modern Mati Hari, who has stolen the plans of Allied occupation armies. In the end, Smithson tracks her down, but she escapes, vowing revenge against the Nazis who used her for their own purposes.
- Reprints
-
in Divas, Dames & Daredevils (Exterminating Angel Press, 2013 series) (2013) [page 1 splash only] - in Men of Mystery (AC, 1999 series) #113 (2019) in black and white
-
Indexer Notes
Woolfolk's records for this time period indicate he wrote at least one Miss Espionage story and this is probably it.
[no title indexed]
Boy Magician / comic story / 12 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- What was the secret of the magic coin?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Merlin (the Boy Magician); Pancho; Morgan Le Faye (villain)
Indexer Notes
credits suggested by Jerry Bails' Who's Who.
Boy Magician previously appeared in Mask Comics #2
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
Dr, Mephisto -
1.
Cut Rate Crimes
Black Raider -
2.
["Chin Chop, the world's worst detective..."]
Chin Chop -
3.
["Here is a tale of the diabolical Dr. Mephisto..."]
Dr. Mephisto -
4.
Science Solves a Crime
-
5.
["Out of the smoke and flame of war..."]
Miss Espionage, the International Detective -
6.
["What was the secret of the magic coin?"]
Boy Magician
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