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Cover: Mac Raboy
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America's Greatest Comics #3

May 1942 · Fawcett · 0.15 USD
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An anthology featuring multiple superheroes including Captain Marvel (The Big Red Cheese), who battles a giant rat in a nightmare sequence before confronting Mr. Scarlet and Pinky the Whip in urban dangers; Minute Man confronts enemy agents and their plan to execute French hostages, preventing their deaths through intervention; and Spy Smasher pursues a case involving a hidden jewel and a woman named Vivien Gaye, ultimately deciding to retrieve the treasure with her help.

Contains 6 stories
The Magno-Ray
21 pp · Superhero
Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]SteamboatBeautia SivanaShazam (inset)Thaddeus Bodog Sivana (villain)

When Thaddeus Bodog Sivana harnesses the power of his Magno-Ray—a device that magnifies tiny objects into towering, solid illusions—he uses his invention to stay one step ahead of Captain Marvel. Trapped in a fortress of magnified images and hunted through a maze of oversized threats, Captain Marvel must uncover Sivana's scheme while Beautia Sivana becomes caught in the crossfire between the villain's cruelty and her own conscience. The stage is set for a battle of wits and power where nothing—and everything—may be exactly as it seems.

The Baffling Morto
15 pp · Superhero
Morto (villain, introduction)Adolf Hitler (villain)Benito Mussolini (villain)Hirohito (villain)
Leads the Freedom Fight
18 pp · Spy, Superhero
Stuart Corby [Admiral Corby's nephew] (introduction)

When Spy Smasher learns that his former friend Lieutenant Stuart Corby has become a Nazi collaborator in occupied Paris, he dons his costume and pilots his incredible gyrosub across the Atlantic to confront the traitor. After a harrowing journey through enemy defenses and a daring rescue of a young Parisian girl, Spy Smasher is captured and brought before Gestapo headquarters—where he comes face-to-face with Corby himself, now a Nazi Colonel with dangerous plans of his own. With the fate of the French resistance and his own life hanging in the balance, our hero must navigate a deadly game of wits against the man he once called friend.

The Baffling Case of the Murdered Millionaire
20 pp · Superhero
The Strange Man With Cats (villain, introduction, death)

When a mysterious woman purchases a gun and sets her sights on millionaire Mordwell T. Pennyfond, the wealthy man's fate seems sealed—but his murder becomes far more puzzling than anyone anticipated. As Private Jack Weston arrives at the estate for an errand, he discovers the crime and transforms into the vigilant Minute Man to unravel a locked-room mystery, all while a peculiar figure called the Strange Man with Cats celebrates in the shadows. Can Minute Man untangle the baffling case before the killer strikes again?

Untitled Non-Fiction story
1 pp · Non-Fiction, Animal
The Man Who Lived a Million Years
15 pp · Superhero
Man of the Ages (villain, introduction)

ComicBooks.com Value

Our Model is In Beta
Raw (Good) $202
CGC 8.0 · 2 in census $1,063*
CGC 7.5 · 3 in census $885
CGC 7.0 · 2 in census $709*
CGC 6.5 · 5 in census $680
CGC 6.0 · 4 in census $524
CGC 5.5 · 6 in census $432
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CGC 5.0 · 4 in census $411*
CGC 4.5 · 5 in census $351*
CGC 4.0 · 5 in census $305*
CGC 3.5 · 2 in census $272*
CGC 3.0 none in existence
CGC 2.5 none in existence
CGC 2.0 none in existence
CGC 1.5 · 2 in census $127*
* estimate — limited direct-sales data at this grade
Our model’s value — refined as new sales data arrives · CGC census counts shown where available

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Full credits

artist, inker Ray Harford
artist, inker C. C. Beck
cover pencils, inks Mac Raboy

Reprints

Reprinted in Take That, Adolf!: The Fighting Comic Books of the Second World War #[nn] (2017), PS Artbooks Softee: America's Greatest Comics #2 (2024), America's Greatest Comics #3 (2025)

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