Camp Comics #3 Mile High Pedigree (Dell, 1942) CGC VF+ 8.5 Off-white to white pages....

Auction amount: $840.00

Sold: Jun 24, 2018

Camp Comics #3 Values

Publisher: Western, 1942

About Camp Comics #3

Overstreet lists this book as "scarce". Walt Kelly and Dave Berg art. Photo cover. Last issue of the title.

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COVER DETAILS

Pencils: ? (photograph)

Inks: ? (photograph)

Colors: ? (photograph)

Letters: typeset

STORY DETAILS

(15 Stories)

Characters: Rusty O'Reilly; Major Keene; Brune (spy); Donner (spy)

Synopsis: Rusty, Brune and Donner escape Keene's raid of the spys' hotel in Panama City, Rusty posing as spy queen Madam Q. Their plane crashes in the Brazilian jungle, and the spies and Rusty are captured by indians. Brune and Donner escape the indian camp, but are killed by curare darts.

Pages: 12.000

Notes: Last appearance. Many violent actions throughout - a pilot being thrown out of a flying plane, an indian being shot in the back, and the two villains being shot to death by curare darts. Derogatory description of the Amazon indians throughout: "Head hunters".

Title: The Setting of the Rising Sun

Characters: Hank; Lank; Bubbles; Lord High Mucki-Muck; General Fanny-Hang-Low

Synopsis: The Japanese have dug a tunnel beneath the Pacific all the way to New York, planning an invasion. The protagonists by accident discover the plan and conquer the entire Japanese army.

Pages: 9.000

Script: Frank Thomas

Pencils: Frank Thomas (signed)

Inks: Frank Thomas (signed)

Notes: Very violent ending: The Japanese emperor and the entire army are thrown into garbage trucks and being cremated at the Municipal Incinerator.

Title: Sherman Was Right, Especially When You're Dealing With the Weaker Sex

Characters: Syclops "Sy" Wheeler; Clarence; Kitty; Tootsie; a young lady on the train; the young lady's boychild

Synopsis: Sy and Clarence ride to a weekend in the country on a train, but women keep falling into Sy's arms whenever his fiancée Kitty appears.

Pages: 7.000

Script: Walt Kelly

Pencils: Walt Kelly

Inks: Walt Kelly

Letters: Typeset (?)

Notes: Last appearance. Kelly draws a caricature of himself as a ticket seller on pg. 2. The young lady's boychild is a caricature of Disney animator Ward Kimball.

Title: The Chicago Express Mystery

Characters: Philo Vance; Skittles; Mary Doval; Charles Foster; miss Barkley; Dr. Bradley

Synopsis: The heiress to a big fortune becomes cataleptic on a train, and Philo - accidentally present on board the same train - solves the mystery.

Pages: 10.000

Notes: Last appearance.

Title: Three Wishes

Synopsis: If granted three wishes the protagonist would wish for opportunities to murder Hitler, and hurt Mussolini and Hirohito.

Pages: 1.000

Script: David Berg (credited)

Pencils: David Berg (credited)

Inks: David Berg (credited)

Letters: David Berg

Notes: Pre-war reference: mentioning Hitler, Mussolini and Hirohito.

Title: Dear Ethel

Characters: W.B. Bingle; Gilligan; Major Brewster

Synopsis: Bingle and his pal, Corporal Gilligan visit Gilligan's grandfather, Major Brewster, who was in the Spanish-American war.

Pages: 3.000

Pencils: ? (spot illustrations)

Inks: ? (spot illustrations)

Letters: typeset

Notes: War reference: Fear of Nazi invasion to the US.

Characters: Rimfire Ferguson; Elizabeth Hardy; Broder (cow herder, villain); Honest Sam Steele; Sheriff Boyle; Mike Gorrel (sheep herder, villain)

Synopsis: During the court case of the five cow herders trying to kill Rimfire [ref. Camp Comics #2], sheep herders drive a huge flock of sheep through cow country, and the sheep/cattle war breaks out again.

Pages: 10.000

Pencils: John Hampton (signed)

Inks: John Hampton (signed)

Notes: Last appearance. Signature on last page.

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