Miss America Magazine #3 for Sale - First Appearance of Nancy Brown - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Miss America Magazine (Marvel, 1944 series)
Issue: #3
Publication date: December 1944
Key date: 1944-12-00
On-sale date: 1944-10-27
Indicia publisher: Miss America Publishing Corp.
Price: $0.10
Pages: 68

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Why this issue matters

First appearance of Nancy Brown - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

The evidence

Claims here come from the story records for this issue, listed under Sources at the bottom of the file. Character hubs with full evidence tables are coming to this site.

Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	-	cover	1	pencils: Louise Altson; inks: Louise Altson; colors: Louise Altson
1	Miss America Contents	table of contents	0.67	letters: typeset
2	Hello, Girls:	text article	0.33	script: Jean Goodman
3	-	text article	2	script: Trudy Smith	Jane Withers (photo); June Carlson (photo); Johnny Miles (photo); Shirley Temple (photo); Gloria Jean (photo)
4	Sauce for the Gander	text story	3.65	script: Ruth Gilbert Cochran; pencils: Louise Altson; inks: Louise Altson
5	Miss Dolly Dimples	text article	2.67	script: May Mann	Dolly Dimples (photo of Diana Lynn)
6	X Plus Y	text story	4	script: Maxine Shore; pencils: James Billmyer; inks: James Billmyer
7	Thinking Is Being	text story	2.6	script: Helene Wanderman; pencils: Louise Altson; inks: Louise Altson
9	-	text article	3.33	script: Victoria Allen Dunford; pencils: Christopher Rule; inks: Christopher Rule
11	Career-Minded Minx	text article	2.93	script: April Carveth	Janet Martin (photo); Allan Lane (photo); Bill Henry (photo); Frank Sinatra (photo)
12	Sigh-Entific Studying...	text article	1.27	script: Linda Hopp
13	The Case of the Goldfish	comic story	7	script: Bill Finger; pencils: Pauline Loth; inks: Christopher Rule; colors: Dan Barry	Madeline Joyce, Miss America
14	Your Haven	text story	3	script: Beulah Kraft
15	-	comic story	7	pencils: Pauline Loth; inks: Christopher Rule; colors: Dan Barry	Buzz Baxter, Patsy Walker, Hedy Wolfe, Nancy Brown First, Joshua Walker, Dorothy Walker
16	She Calls Me Dad...	text story	1.67	script: ? (credited as Everybody's Daddy); letters: typeset
17	The Adventures of the Ring	comic story	7	pencils: Pauline Loth; inks: Christopher Rule; colors: Dan Barry	Madeline Joyce, Miss America
18	Said the Spurter to the Mumbler...	text article	1.6	script: Karen Van Lissel
20	Road to Charm	text article	1	script: Gladys Steiner
21	Miss America's Favorite Fashions	activity	1	pencils: Pauline Loth; inks: Pauline Loth	Madeline Joyce, Miss America
22	Is This You?	text article	1.4	script: Rita Dorn
23	Tricky Tests for Teens...	activity	1.4	script: Martin Panzer
24	Metropolitan Baby...	text article	1.83	script: Kay Sullivan	Patrice Munsel (photo)
26	-	text article	1.5	script: Nina Wilcox Putnam

Plus 5.33 pages of advertisements and other matter across 4 sequences, as published.

Before you buy

Golden-age paper is brittle. Ask about page suppleness and check edges for chips in the photos.
Check for trimmed edges, married covers, and clipped coupons - all common on books this old.
Confirm the indicia matches this plate; many golden-age titles changed names mid-run.

Series context

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Sources

Grand Comics Database, issue record (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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