Issue Details

Issue	#3
Published	March 1964
Cover Price	$0.50
Pages	40
Editing	Buddy Saunders; Howard Keltner; Larry Herndon
Notes	Amateur fanzine; last issue with "ditto" interior. 200 copies (making this the rarest issue of SSC).

Cover Details - "THE EYE Plus Other Thrilling Heroes"

Characters	The Eye; The Changeling
Genre	Super-hero
Pencils	Biljo White (Eye); Buddy Saunders (Changeling)
Inks	Biljo White (Eye); Buddy Saunders (Changeling)
Letters	Biljo White
Notes	Amateur fanzine; last issue with "ditto" interior. 200 copies (making this the rarest issue of SSC).
Reprinted	in Best of Star-Studded Comics, The (Hamster Press, 2005 series) #nn

7 page The Eye story "INTRODUCING-- THE EYE"

Characters	The Eye (debut); Mr. Big; R. Miller (witness); Petey Rinzo (rival gang member)
Synopsis	Posing undercover as a mob executioner, The Eye brings down Mr. Big's mob.
Genre	Super-hero
Script	Biljo White
Pencils	Biljo White
Inks	Biljo White
Colors	B&W
Letters	Biljo White
Notes	1st appearance. Character designed by Richard "Grass" Green in November 1955. Story expanded & redrawn in ink for THE EYE #1 (Biljo White, 1965); ink version reprinted in FANDOM'S FINEST COMICS (Hamster Press, 1997). Due to switch to offset printing in the next SSC issue, next appearance in FIGHTING HERO COMICS #10 (SFCA, 1964).
Reprinted	in Labors Of Love (Hamster Press, 1994 series) #nn; in Labors Of Love -- Expanded Edition (Hamster Press, 2000 series) #nn; in Best of Star-Studded Comics, The (Hamster Press, 2005 series) #nn

1 page The Eye character profile "Some Of The Powers Of The Eye"

Genre	Super-hero
Script	Biljo White
Pencils	Biljo White
Inks	Biljo White
Letters	Biljo White
Notes	Cross-section detailing The Eye's various abilities. "Ditto" version published in 1963, redrawn in ink as "Inside The Eye" for THE EYE #1 (Biljo White, 1965); ink version reprinted in FANDOM'S FINEST COMICS (Hamster Press, 1997)
Reprinted	in Labors Of Love (Hamster Press, 1994 series) #nn; in GIANT LABORS OF LOVE (Hamster Press, 2000); in Best of Star-Studded Comics, The (Hamster Press, 2005 series) #nn

7 page The Changeling story "THE ORIGIN OF THE CHANGELING"

Genre	Super-hero
Script	Buddy Saunders
Pencils	Buddy Saunders
Inks	Buddy Saunders
Colors	B&W
Letters	Buddy Saunders
Notes	3rd appearance. Previous app. in SSC #2; next app. in SSC #4.

6 page Mr. Mystic text story "(MR. MYSTIC)"

Genre	Occult; Super-hero
Script	Bob Butts
Pencils	Howard Keltner
Inks	Howard Keltner
Colors	B&W
Letters	Howard Keltner
Notes	1st (of 2?) appearances. Next (and last?) app. in STAR-STUDDED COMICS #6 (Texas Trio, February 1965).

7 page Blue Streak story "RIDE A DEADLY MISSILE"

Genre	Super-hero
Script	Ken Tesar
Pencils	Ken Tesar
Inks	Ken Tesar
Colors	B&W
Letters	Ken Tesar
Notes	1st (and only?) appearance.