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Issue: Banner Comics #3
Publication Date: September 1941
 
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagAce Magazines
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Periodical House, Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 8 (7 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Aaron A. Wyn
Disclose Notes: no issues #1-2; this is the first issue
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Golden Age US
Paper Stock: Glossy cover; Newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was ongoing
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Jim Mooney (signed)
Jim Mooney (signed)
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Subject Matter
superhero
Captain Courageous
Captain Courageous
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Jim Mooney ?
Jim Mooney ?
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Subject Matter
superhero
Captain Courageous, Mighty Warrior!!!
Captain Courageous (introduction); The Nazis (villains)
Mighty warrior!!! Master of the miraculous defender of liberty...
Captain Courageous,innocently enough, stops kids from bullying a girl and it snowballs into stopping a Nazi invasion of the United States.
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The Nazi army is equipped with super-weaponry that would be familiar to readers of Whiz Comics #3, right down to super-planes able to drop tanks.

Art credits by Craig Delich.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Otto Binder
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Subject Matter
superhero
The Lone Warrior
The Lone Warrior [Stan Carter] (introduction); Dicky [Richard Carter] (Stan's younger brother, introduction); The Dictator's Shadow (villain, introduction); enemy saboteurs [Kampf; two others unnamed] (villains, introduction for all)
The dictator's shadow is falling across civilization...
Lone Warrior enlists in the U.S. Army and is stationed right by the boys' camp where his kid brother is in attendance. The two join forces to stop saboteurs at the Army base who are working for the Dictator's Shadow.
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There are noticable themes here: the patriotism, the Army private who is secretly a superhero, the kid sidekick, the chemistry-related origin, the murder attempts on Army generals....all of which parallel Captain America.

Binder is credited as a writer of this story by Bails's Who's Who.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
adventure
Typhoon Tyson
"Typhoon" Tyson; First Mate Anzac
Tyson Typhoon and the crew of the Sea Lion are transporting a scientist who enemy agents want to kill.
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Miscellaneous
9
last app. in OUR FLAG COMICS #1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Art Saaf ?
Art Saaf ?
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Subject Matter
adventure
Kay McKay, Air Hostess
Kay McKay; Ned
Kay McKay, an air hostess on 'World Wide Airlines'...
Ned and Kay are asked by the American Consul in Mexico City to return diamonds to Brazil, but gangsters have other plans.
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last app. in OUR FLAG COMICS #1. Though "only" an air stewardess, Kay can outfly her pilot, shoot a revolver, disable a plane, and stop an alligator.
American Trail Blazers

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Warren Kremer [as W Kremer] (signed)
Warren Kremer [as W Kremer] (signed)
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Subject Matter
aviation, biography, non-fiction
Capsule biography of Captain Jack Knight.
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Miscellaneous
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Mastermind Payoff

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Ralph Powers (credited)
typeset
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Miscellaneous
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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George Wilson (signed)
George Wilson (signed)
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Subject Matter
childrens
Paul Revere, Jr.
Paul Revere, Jr. (introduction); Paul Revere, Sr. (introduction); Patrick Henry (introduction); Betsy Ross (introduction); The Thorns (villains, introduction for all)
'Lo Pat!
Paul Sr. runs an anti-isolationist newspaper called "America Awake", which draws the ire of a Fifth Column group called The Thorns. Paul Jr. and his friends, Patrick and Betsy, are members of a club with the same name and fight the Thorns.
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Miscellaneous
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