Notes: Adventure story (big-game safari in Africa).

Notes: Ad for Man Comics and Young Men

Notes: Crime story.

Notes: A boy finds a stray dog and wants to keep it. But his dad won't let him. That night the dog is outside the house barking. Dad goes out to beat him, but finds out that the house is on fire. The dog runs in and saves the boy. That's exactly the same story as the Tuska story in 3-D Action! Not the same story told again... but the same story! Same captions, same dialogue... only a different splash panel. Tuska eliminates the flash forward panel of the father beating the dog and sending it away and replaces it with a dialogueless panel of the father waking up in the night. Some of the panels have been rearranged, but most of the shots are the same. Seems Tuska worked from the same script and made a few different choices.

This also solves another puzzle for me... why a story with such an old job number in a 1953 3d book would have such modern looking Tuska art. I had sort of guessed that it was one of the 'closet' stories that were left undrawn and was used later. But not it seems to be a reused story. Why would they do that? And why didn't anyone else see the doubling up of job numbers? Well... they don't have the same job number. Although the 1953 version does have a low job number, it is not the same. This one is 7205 and the later one is 8305. The numbers are to close to be a coincidence. If they had been completely different, I would have suggested someone sold the same story twice and Stan filed it away to be used later. But this seems more like a misreading.

Anyway, nice to see the different interpretations. The Tuska story had fascinated me for a long time and I have even scanned it in and turned it into a very readable black and white story. - Ger A.

Notes: Teenage hotrodding story.