Sparkler Comics, #3

Published: November 1943

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Sparkler Comics #3

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Issue Contents:
1 page humor; children

"Spanish dance team wanted"

Credits
Story 1 6 pages humor; children

"An invention? Yep -- I ain't tried it out yet, but it's a rain-makin' machine."

Credits
Story 2 4 pages adventure

"Do you mind telling me, sir... how Colonel Smythe knew..."

Credits
  • Script:
Story 3 3 pages western-frontier

"A Bonanza doctor ordered the injured Sheriff Potter to bed..."

Story 4 2 pages drama

"How long will it take me to learn to fly?"

Story Notes

Signatures appear in the last panel of each page.

Story 5 5 pages adventure; jungle

"Vanger, cornered in a ravine by Carlus, holds a gun at Matea's head."

Story Notes

Last panel of each page is signed.

To School or not to School
Story 6 6 pages humor

"'Ats wot I sez! In arf a 'our we sails, so pack yer duds."

Story 7 5 pages adventure

"Race, aiding a British raid, has set fire to a big..."

Stamps are Educational
Story 8 2 pages non-fiction
Story Notes

Includes stamp ads.

Story 9 5 pages drama

"Cal has hired a ghost artist to do his strip for him while he goes partying with Narda Neckling...."

Characters
  • Cal App
  • Narda Neckling
  • Becky Groggins
  • J. Pierpont (Bathless) Groggins
  • Wilberforce Groggins
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Story 10 5 pages humor

"Tell us some more about the stars, Mr. Bombo"

Characters
  • El Bombo
  • P.T. Biltybux
  • Professor McGalaxy
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Story 11 2 pages non-fiction; war
Characters
  • First Lieut. Gabriel J. Dumont
  • Second Lieut. John E. McCarthy
Story 12 1 page humor

"Leave a coupe of dollars, Spike."

Storyline

A series of 1-panel jokes.

Credits
Story 13 8 pages adventure; war

"Having sabotaged the anti-aircraft batteries of the huge dam at Stuttgart..."