<i>Leading Comics</i> No. 3
date: label: date made
content: 1942
name: label: maker
content: D. C. Comics, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: <i>Leading Comics</i> No. 3 was published by DC Comics in the summer of 1942 and sold for ten cents. The cover art by Mort Meskin features a lighthouse whose beams illuminate inset portraits of superheroes. Clockwise from the top, the heroes are Vigilante, Green Arrow and Speedy, The Crimson Avenger, Shining Knight, and Star-Spangled Kid and Stripesy. These heroes formed a team, the Seven Soldiers of Victory, which notably included two sidekicks—Green Arrow’s Speedy and the Star-Spangled Kid’s Stripesy.
label: Description
content: This issue of <i>Leading Comics</i> introduced the antagonist Dr. Doome (not to be confused with Marvel’s more popular Dr. Victor von Doom) who invented a time machine to bring history’s greatest conquerors —Alexander the Great, Nero, Genghis Khan, Attila the Hun, and Napoleon Bonaparte—to the present. In each chapter of the issue, a hero defeats a villain. The Star-Spangled Kid and Stripesy take out Napoleon, Green Arrow and Speedy deal with Alexander the Great, Shining Knight defeats Genghis Khan, Vigilante deals with Attila the Hun, and Crimson Avenger stops Nero, before they all team up together to vanquish Dr. Doome.
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content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Comics
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Popular Entertainment
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content: Comic Books
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Olivia V. Crisson and Phillip M.S. Crisson in honor of Peter Bozzer
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2013.0086.081
label: catalog number
content: 2013.0086.081
label: accession number
content: 2013.0086
objectType: label: Object Name
content: comic book
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 1/2 in x 10 1/4 in; 19.05 cm x 26.035 cm