Volume: 1
Price: 0.10 USD
Pages: 68
Editing: ?
Cover Thumbnail for Crash Comics Adventures (Temerson / Helnit / Continental, 1940 series) #3 Edit Cover
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Strongman / cover / 1 page

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  • Genre:superhero
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:The new sensation
Characters:
Strongman [Percy Van Norton]

Issue Data

Indexer Notes

Vol. 1 — No. 3
CRASH COMICS ADVENTURES is published monthly by Tem Publishing Co., Inc. Office of publication, 1 Appleton Street, Holyoke, Mass. Editorial offices, 381 Fourth Avenue, New York, N. Y. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at Holyoke, Mass., under the Act of March 3, 1879. Price 10 cents per copy. Subscription rates, 12 issues for $1.50 in the United States and its possessions. Copyright 1940 by TEM Publishing Co., Inc. Printed in the U. S. A.

This is the only issue where both the cover and indicia titles contain "Adventures" and match exactly.

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Strongman / comic story / 19 pages

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  • Genre:superhero
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Strongman ever fighting for American ideals...
Characters:
Strongman [Percy Van Norton]; King Lorac; General Shatov (villain); Nilats (villain)
Synopsis:
While aboard his yacht, Percy recieves a message in code. When cracked, it states that Rutania (a small Balkan kingdom) is to be invaded. Changing course, a submarine fires a torpedo at them, ony to be averted by Strogman, who turns it back on itself. They land in Rutania, where Strongman defeats the Aissurian troops in a mountain pass.

Indexer Notes

Snipes at Russia are barely concealed. The antagonistic nation is Aissur, its capital city Wocsom and its ruler Nilats (spell them all backwards).

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Buck Burke / comic story / 5 pages

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  • Genre:jungle
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Buck Burke, a young zoologist...
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Buck Burke

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Secret Agent Z-2 / comic story / 4 pages

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  • Genre:spy
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Recognized as the most brilliant member of the Secret Service...
Characters:
Secret Agent Z-2

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Solar Legion / comic story / 6 pages

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  • Genre:science fiction
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Law and order have come at last...
Characters:
Solar Legion
Reprints (3)

Indexer Notes

Letters credit identified by Greg Theakston and later Harry Mendryk on the Jack Kirby Museum web page http://kirbymuseum.org/blogs/simonandkirby/archives/2369, 31 October 2008 (retrieved 15 December 2014).

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Blue Streak / comic story / 5 pages

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  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:The Blue Streak, defender of humanity, reposes in his mountain retreat...
Characters:
The Blue Streak [Don-Vin]

Law of the Wild
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text story / 2 pages

Script:
Robert Turner (credited)
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typeset

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Flying Trio / comic story / 5 pages

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  • Genre:aviation
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:We'll be outa here before they can get those pursuit jobs off the ground...
Characters:
Flying Trio

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Jane Drake Detective / comic story / 5 pages

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  • Genre:detective-mystery
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:The paper says they've got Morrlli at last!
Characters:
Jane Drake
Reprints (1)

The Reign of Yang
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Alec [by Rudolf Johnson] / comic story / 3 pages

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Alec

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Shangra / comic story / 10 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Pagsilang Isip (credited)
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Pagsilang Isip (credited)
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  • Genre:adventure
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Two American newspaper correspondents...
Characters:
Shangra
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Table of Contents ToC
    Table of Contents
  1. ["The new sensation"]
    Strongman
  2. ["Strongman ever fighting for American ideals..."]
    Strongman
  3. ["Buck Burke, a young zoologist..."]
    Buck Burke
  4. ["Recognized as the most brilliant member of the Secret Service..."]
    Secret Agent Z-2
  5. ["Law and order have come at last..."]
    Solar Legion
  6. ["The Blue Streak, defender of humanity, reposes in his mountain retreat..."]
    Blue Streak
  7. Law of the Wild
  8. ["We'll be outa here before they can get those pursuit jobs off the ground..."]
    Flying Trio
  9. ["The paper says they've got Morrlli at last!"]
    Jane Drake Detective
  10. The Reign of Yang
    Alec [by Rudolf Johnson]
  11. ["Two American newspaper correspondents..."]
    Shangra
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  • Jim Van Dore
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