Big 3 #1 Values

Publisher: Fox, 1940

About Big 3 #1

Blue Beetle, Samson, and the Flame begin runs in the title. Dick Briefer and Alex Blum art.

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COVER DETAILS

Characters: Blue Beetle; Samson, the Flame; David (inset)

Notes: The AC comic had the cover re-created by Mark Heike and colored by Stephanie Heike.

STORY DETAILS

(7 Stories)

Title: Borgo, the Mirror Murderer

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)

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.

Pages: 15.000

Pencils: Sam Cooper [as Charles Nicholas] (signed)

Inks: Sam Cooper [as Charles Nicholas] (signed)

Notes: Art identification by Bill Black, confirmed by Gary Watson in June, 2009.

Title: The Inner Crime Ring

Characters: Samson; David; Professor Brun; Dr. Blood (villain, introduction, death)

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.

Pages: 13.000

Pencils: Al Carreno [as Alex Boon] (signed)

Inks: Al Carreno [as Alex Boon] (signed)

Notes: Art identification by Bill Black, confirmed by Gary Watson in June, 2009.

Title: The Jewel Smuggling Murders

Characters: The Flame [Gary Preston]; The Water-Front Gang [Spike, rest un-named](villains, introduction, death for all)

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.

Pages: 9.000

Pencils: ? [as Basil Berold] (signed)

Inks: ? [as Basil Berold] (signed)

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.

Title: The Shylock Menace

Characters: The Flame [Gary Preston]; Spike and other gangsters (villains, introduction, deaths of all)

Synopsis: The Flame battles a murdering gang of money lenders, who are trying to bleed dry people who borrowed money from them.

Pages: 9.000

Pencils: ? [as Basil Berold] (signed)

Inks: ? [as Basil Berold] (signed)

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.

Title: The Flying Dutchman Goes Modern

Characters: Captain Hetherington; Hardy; Captain Van Der Decken; Korvettenskapitan von Martz (villain); Oberleutnant von Seidorff (villain); Rothmann (villain)

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!

Pages: 2.000

Script: Nathaniel Nitkin [as N. N. Nathaniel] (signed)

Pencils: ? (two illustrations)

Inks: ? (two illustrations)

Letters: typeset

Title: The Ultimatum of Lobar

Characters: Cosmic Carson; Lobar (villain, introduction, death); Gargantuans (villains, introduction, death)

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!

Pages: 6.000

Pencils: ? [as Michael Griffith] (signed)

Inks: ? [as Michael Griffith] (signed)

Notes: Michael Griffith was a pen-name for Jack Kirby, but the art here doesn't appear to be by him.

Title: The Submarine City

Characters: Gordon; Wanda; Jan; Jim; Dr. Doom (villain); Venusians [Jarg, rest un-named](villains, introduction)

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.

Pages: 8.000

Pencils: Dick Briefer [as Richard Crater] (signed)

Inks: Dick Briefer [as Richard Crater] (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.

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CGC Census Report*

Grade	NG	PG	CVR	0.5	1.0	1.5	1.8	2.0	2.5	3.0	3.5	4.0	4.5	5.0	5.5	6.0	6.5	7.0	7.5	8.0	8.5	9.0	9.2	9.4	9.6	9.8	9.9	10.0	Total
Universal	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	1	2	1	1	2	0	1	3	1	1	1	3	5	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	28
Qualified	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Signature Series	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
CGCxJSA	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Restored	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5
Total	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	1	2	4	3	2	1	1	3	1	1	2	3	5	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	35

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