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Issue Details

Issue #3
Published [1953]
Cover Price $0.25
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Cover title is "3-D-ell featuring Flukey Luke". No date in indicia except for 1953 copyright date. Cover is not true 3-D. Three-dimensional comic with red and blue glasses inserted. "Produced and Directed by Hal Seeger; Photographed by Samuel Stimson."

Cover Details

Characters Flukey Luke; Cactus Charlie
Genre western; funny animal
Notes Cover title is "3-D-ell featuring Flukey Luke". No date in indicia except for 1953 copyright date. Cover is not true 3-D. Three-dimensional comic with red and blue glasses inserted. "Produced and Directed by Hal Seeger; Photographed by Samuel Stimson."

1 page foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "3 ways to use your long wearing 3-D-ell glasses"

Letters typeset
Notes Inside front cover. Mostly black and white with some red lettering. Instructions of how to separate 3-D glass from binding and how to use them to read the comic.
Reprinted from 3-D-ell #1 (1953).

12 page Flukey Luke photo story "Plot to steal reward money to buy ranch"

Characters Flukey Luke; Lazy Susan; Cactus Charlie (villain); Two Feathers (villain)
Synopsis Cactus Charlie and Two Feathers hatch a plot to steal reward money in order to buy the Lazy Susan ranch.
Genre western; funny animal
Notes 3-D printing. Panels appear to be stop-motion animation. Printed in red and blue to become black and white in 3-D.

10 page Flukey Luke photo story "Flukey builds an airplane"

Characters Flukey Luke; Lazy Susan; Two Feathers
Synopsis Flukey Luke builds an airplane and starts a sky-writing business.
Genre western; funny animal
Notes 3-D printing. Panels appear to be stop-motion animation. Printed in red and blue to become brown and white in 3-D.

10 page Flukey Luke photo story "Sea horse ranch"

Characters Flukey Luke; Lazy Susan; Cactus Charlie (villain); Two Feathers (villain)
Synopsis Flukey decides to become a sea horse rancher underwater.
Genre western; funny animal
Notes 3-D printing. Panels appear to be stop-motion animation. Printed in red and blue to become black and white in 3-D.

1 page Flukey Luke story "over-flowing bathtub"

Characters Flukey Luke
Synopsis Flukey's bathtub is overflowing. To get rid of the water, he drills a hole in the panel gutter between the second and third tiers to let it drain out into the panel below.
Genre western; funny animal
Letters none (pantomime)
Notes Inside back cover; monochrome, black and red; Not 3-D. Strip breaks normal conventions for use of panel borders.

1 page Flukey Luke story "building panel borders"

Characters Flukey Luke
Synopsis Flukey carries a bundle of rods, which he uses to construct a regular panel border.
Genre western; funny animal
Letters none (pantomime)
Notes Back cover; color; not 3-D. Unusual use of conventional panel elements.