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Issue: Uncle Sam Quarterly #1 Public Domain
Publication Date: January 1941
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Issues: #1 of 8 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagQuality Comics
Brand: Quality Comic GroupView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Comic Magazines, Inc.
On Sale Date: 08/08/1941
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 7 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Ed Cronin; Everett M. Arnold [as E. M. Arnold] (general manager)
Disclose Notes: Copyright 1941 by Comic Magazines, Inc.

The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1941, New Series, Vol. 36, No. 4.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US
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Binding:  
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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FlagThe Art of Will Eisner #1 published January 1982 as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Dan Zolnerowich ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Uncle Sam
Character(s): Uncle Sam; Buddy Smith
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Forged Faces

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Will Eisner ?
Penciller(s): Will Eisner (page 1... Splash page); Dan Zolnerowich (pages 2-14)
Inker(s): Lou Fine (page 1... Splash page); ? (pages 2-14)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Uncle Sam
Character(s): Uncle Sam; Buddy Smith; Curwen (sculptor, introduction); Franklin Delano Roosevelt (face unseen); Senator Mason (introduction); Senator Northrup Bristol (villain, introduction)
Synopsis: When Senator Bristol forces a "Youth Taining Bill" through Congress, children across the nation were herded into near slavery. Bristol then kidnapped the President and intended to assassinate his detractors in order to pass other Fascist laws. In time, they recruited Buddy and Uncle Sam was powerless to save him. Meantime, Bristol hired a sculptor to mold faces and create a duplicate of Uncle Sam and others, as he cried for war. But the nation was not ready, Uncle Sam freed himself, and rallied the country and military to end Bristol's fevered plans.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 14
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The King of Crime

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Will Eisner
Penciller(s): Will Eisner (page 1... Splash page); ? (pages 2-14)
Inker(s): Lou Fine (page 1... Splash page); ? (pages 2-14)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Uncle Sam
Character(s): Uncle Sam; Buddy Smith; Dr. Link (introduction, death); Dr. Blink (introduction, death); King Killer (villain, introduction)
Synopsis: Doctors Link and Blink bring King Killer back to life.....a man nigh unstoppable, with fangs and fearsome strength. In a protracted battle with Uncle Sam, Killer was finally brought down.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 14
Disclose Notes: Dan Zolnerowich was originally credited as doing the pencils for pages 2-14. But, Dan Zolnerowich did not do this work.
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Uncle Sam a Fake

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Will Eisner
Penciller(s): Dan Zolnerowich
Inker(s): Lou Fine (page 1... Splash page); ? (map)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?; typeset (2 pages)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Uncle Sam
Character(s): Uncle Sam; Buddy Smith
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: There are 2 pages of text and a 2 page map of Everytown (Sam's city).
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The Man Who Sold His Country

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Will Eisner
Penciller(s): Will Eisner (page 1... Splash page); Dan Zolnerowich (pages 2-10)
Inker(s): Lou Fine (page 1... Splash page); ? (pages 2-10)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Uncle Sam
Character(s): Uncle Sam; Buddy Smith; Horatio Brown (villain, introduction, death); the Devil (villain)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
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The Mad Poet, or, Uncle Sam Battles Inky Pinky Omblagoo Folder Dobble Bottlepoo

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Will Eisner
Penciller(s): Dave Berg
Inker(s): Dave Berg
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Uncle Sam
Character(s): Uncle Sam; Buddy Smith; President Francklin D. Roosevelt; The Mad Poet (villain, introduction, death)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Story all told in verse.
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The Steel Helmets

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Will Eisner
Penciller(s): Will Eisner (page 1... Splash page); Dan Zolnerowich (pages 2-16)
Inker(s): Lou Fine (page 1... Splash page); ? (pages 2-16)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Uncle Sam
Character(s): Uncle Sam; Buddy Smith; Senator Northrup Bristol (villain, death); the Steel Helmets (villains)
Synopsis: As steel-helmeted invaders took over America, Uncle Sam, because people had stopped cheering for him and he lost his strength, fell ill and disappeared completely, fnding himself in another world where he was told the only way back was to fight through "swamps of ignorance and of jungles of lies." After completing these trials, Sam returns to America and its citizens embraced him again, which gave him the strength to overhtow their captors.
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Pages: 16
Disclose Notes: Introduction: The Uncle Sam Club.

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