Yellowjacket Comics #3

(November 1944)

The Curse of the Broken Claw (Table of Contents: 1)

Yellowjacket / comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Ken Battefield

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Yellowjacket [Vince Harley]; Major Vinson; Andy Douglas (veteran); VILLAINS: Doc Krause; Bramm (hospital wardman)

Synopsis

At a military hospital some patients die as a doctor injects them with crab serum to grow new limbs.

Indexer Notes

Battefield is credited on pencils on this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who.
Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. has Battefield on pencils too.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

Diana the Huntress / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

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Pencils

Leo Morey

Inks

Leo Morey

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Greece, land of culture and courage..

Genre

fantasy-supernatural; superhero; war

Characters

Diana the Huntress; Hercules; Jupiter; Mercury; Discordia

Synopsis

Diana and gods from Mt. Olympus descend in wrath on a Nazi convoy approaching Greece.

Reprints

• in Divas, Dames & Daredevils (Exterminating Angel Press, 2013 series) (2013)

Indexer Notes

Moray is credited on this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who, and figures and female faces match well his later signed story in Adv. Into the Unknown #104. Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. also has Morey here.

Killer (Table of Contents: 3)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

?

Letters

typeset

Genre

crime

The Pit and the Pendulum (Table of Contents: 4)

Famous Tales of Terror / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

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Pencils

Gus Schrotter

Inks

Gus Schrotter ?

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

horror-suspense

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.

Indexer Notes

Schrottwr is credited on both pancil and ink on this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who, an art is much similar to his Diana the Huntress stories, and his signed story in Camera Comics #6. Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. has him only on pencil.

Debunker (Table of Contents: 5)

comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

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Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

?

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 6)

King of the Beasts / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Harold DeLay

Inks

Harold DeLay

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Can you solve these clues?

Genre

adventure

Characters

Danny King (liontamer); Zelda (horse artist); Doris (trapez artist); Thurman (ringmaster); Jerry Thimble (midget); Roscoe (strongman); Ganery (tatooed man); Sahara (lion)

Synopsis

Two circus artista are killed, and Danny uses the lion to track the murderer.

Indexer Notes

DeLay is credited on this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who, and can be recognised by the "slow" movement of the rather short figures. Also faces and the layout style more like old book illustrations.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 7)

Harbor Lights / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

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Pencils

Rudy Palais

Inks

Rudy Palais

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

This is a story og Gunner Thompson...

Genre

crime

Characters

Gunner Thompson (lone wolf criminal)

Synopsis

A criminal killer meets a black garbed figure on the road who predicts his death, and is shortly after drafted into the army where he meets his end.

Indexer Notes

Palais is only credited on pencil on this feature, but special faces must be his inking too. Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. has him on all.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 8)

Bee Lines / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

W. Carroll ?

Pencils

W. Carroll (signed)

Inks

W. Carroll (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Gregg has been doing that ever since..

Genre

humor; war

Characters

Simple Suzie

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 9)

Filipino Kid / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

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Pencils

George Gregg

Inks

George Gregg

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Brutally oppressed beneath the heel..

Genre

war

Characters

Juan Martinez [Filipino Kid]; Captain Oshikama

Synopsis

Armed with only with a bolo knife, the Filipino Kid leads his marauders against the murder master of Manila, Captain Oshikama.

Indexer Notes

Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. has Gregg on this story, and he is credited by Jerry Bails' Who's Who on this feature.