Speed Comics #3

(December 1939)

["In a European capital a scene of parting takes place... 'No, JIm, I'm sorry. I can't marry you.' "] (Table of Contents: 1)

Shock Gibson / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script:

Maurice Rosenfield; Bill Scott [as Maurice Scott]

Pencils:

Norman Fallon ?

Inks:

Norman Fallon ?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Charles Gibson [Shock]; Jim Worth (Intro)

Synopsis:

Shock joins the Foreign Legion to track down Jim Worth, son of a prominent American businessman who joined to forget girl who jilted him.

Shock Gibson Volunteers (Table of Contents: 2) (Expand) /

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

["Our three friends are stranded at an inland village in South Africa..."] (Table of Contents: 3)

Crash, Cork, and the Baron / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script:

Klaus Nordling [as Fred North]

Pencils:

Klaus Nordling

Inks:

Klaus Nordling

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

adventure

["At a Hollywood party... 'Nice party, isn't it Ted?' 'Yes, but look, our hostess seems excited!' "] (Table of Contents: 4)

Ted Parrish / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script:

Bob Powell

Pencils:

Bob Powell

Inks:

Bob Powell

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

adventure

An Escape From Headhunters (Table of Contents: 5)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script:

Charles Miller

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset

["Well, well -- the Navy's come to give me a headache my last hours on this island!"] (Table of Contents: 6)

Biff Bannon of the U.S. Marines / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script:

Dick Briefer [as Remington Brant]

Pencils:

Dick Briefer

Inks:

Dick Briefer

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Characters:

Biff Bannon

["In a blazing car ferry, a human rat is trapped!"] (Table of Contents: 7)

Smoke Carter / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script:

Munson Paddock [as Joe E. Martin]

Pencils:

Munson Paddock

Inks:

Munson Paddock

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

adventure

["Locked in his vast laboratory, Landor, brilliant mad scientist, plots the destruction..."] (Table of Contents: 8)

Landor, Maker of Monsters / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script:

? [as Gregory Torey]

Pencils:

Bob Powell

Inks:

Bob Powell

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Characters:

Landor (villain); Anthony Torrence (hero); Marcia (his beautiful fiancée)

Indexer Notes

rip-off of PHANTOM OF THE OPERA unmasking scene

["Tex foils a band of desperate cattle thieves."] (Table of Contents: 9)

Texas Tyler / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script:

William Allison [as Harry Walters]

Pencils:

William Allison

Inks:

William Allison

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

western-frontier

Air Speed (Table of Contents: 10)

comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

"Ace" Shaw (signed)

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

non-fiction

Indexer Notes

Facts about planes

["Modern pirates still roam the North Atlantic, and though they no longer fly..."] (Table of Contents: 11)

Spike Marlin / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script:

? [as Carl Larson]

Pencils:

George Tuska

Inks:

George Tuska

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

adventure

Every Month in Speed Comics (Table of Contents: 12) (Expand) /

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)