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Variety Comics (1944 Rural) 3

  • Issue #3
    Variety Comics (1944 Rural) 3

    Cover by Marvin Stein. Stories and art by Leo Bachle and others. Humor and adventure comics from Rural Home Publishing. Captain Valiant battles the violin-playing crime mastermind known as The Fiddler. Female police detective Terry Temple is trapped by the gleeful pyromaniac known as the Laughing Fireman, in an early action-girl story. Caught with a flat, a couple discovers a chamber of horrors in an old house, in a story with some effectively creepy pre-Code art by Leo Bachle. Captain Valiant: The Fiddler!; Gabby Grayson, Radio Reporter; Terry Temple: Laughing Fireman!; It's True; Marty Moore; Jungo; Words and Where They Came From; Hi Hilton; Mystery Master: The Mystery of the Eccentric Collector; Variety Laffs. Final issue of the series. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.