Northwest Mounties #3 – Key Highlights
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Publisher: St. John
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Publication Date: 1943
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Genre: Adventure, Crime
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Pages: 32
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Format: Full Color
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Original Cover Price: $0.10
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Creators: Matt Baker and others
🔥 Key Significance
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Features action-packed adventures of the Canadian Mounties in the Arctic North.
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Includes artwork by Matt Baker, the celebrated artist known for his distinctive good-girl art.
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Combines Royal Canadian Mounted Police adventures, criminal pursuits, mystery, and aviation-themed action.
📖 Story Highlights
- “Mounties Track the Phantom of the Frozen North” – The RCMP pursues the mysterious Phantom of the Frozen North and encounters a girl who “knew too much and talked too little.”
- “K-9” – A featured adventure involving the Mounties.
- “Sky Chief” – Sky Chief battles jewel smuggler Prince Singh, who operates from a remarkable “sky submarine.”
- “Stand-In for a Corpse” – A mystery-themed adventure.
- “The Case of the Red Bearded Rogue” – The Mounties pursue outlaw James J. “Make-a-Million” Milton, also known as “the red-bearded rogue.” Features artwork by Matt Baker.
- “Murder in Act II” – A crime and mystery adventure.
📌 Additional Details
The issue offers a varied lineup of adventure stories, moving from Arctic pursuits and Mountie investigations to aviation action and jewel-smuggling criminals.
Collector’s Note: Northwest Mounties #3 combines Canadian Mountie adventure with crime and mystery, highlighted by a Matt Baker-illustrated story featuring one of the issue’s colorful outlaw characters.
