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Issue: National Comics #34 Public Domain
Publication Date: August 1943
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Issues: #34 of 75 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagQuality Comics
Brand: Quality Comic GroupView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Comic Magazines
On Sale Date: 05/28/1943
Volume:
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 12 (11 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): John Beardsley
Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1943, New Series, Vol. 38, No. 4.
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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 series
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Alex Kotzky
Inker(s): Alex Kotzky
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult, war
Feature(s): Uncle Sam
Character(s): Uncle Sam; Buddy Smith
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Pages: 1
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Big John Fales

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Art Seymour (signed)
Inker(s): Art Seymour (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult, war
Feature(s): Uncle Sam
Character(s): Uncle Sam; Buddy [Buddy Smith]; Big John Fales (villain, introduction, death, but comes back as a ghost)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 11
Disclose Notes: Story title taken from the cover.
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Watson

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Al Bryant (signed)
Inker(s): Al Bryant (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Sally O'Neil Policewoman
Character(s): Sally O'Neil; Tonelli [Watson] (first appearance; villain; death)
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Pages: 8
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bernard Dibble
Penciller(s): Bernard Dibble
Inker(s): Bernard Dibble
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Salty Waters
First Line: Oh boy! Shore Police... That's my new job!
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Pages: 1
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The Case of the Timid Librarian

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Vernon Henkel
Penciller(s): Vernon Henkel (signed)
Inker(s): Vernon Henkel (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Chic Carter
Character(s): Chic Carter; Homer Weeks (first appearance); Lefty (first appearance; villain)
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Pages: 5
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A Dream of Mars

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Rudy Palais
Inker(s): Rudy Palais
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Unknown
Character(s): The Unknown; Victory (introduction, a goddess); Victory's talking pigeon (introduction); Mars (villain); Adolf Hitler (villain); the Nazis (villains)
Synopsis: After Mars, the god of war, had appeared to Adolf Hitler in his dreams, the Unknown received a message from the goddess of Victory. She broke him out of his jail cell and turned the tables on the Nazis.
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Pages: 6
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The Protest

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Jack Cole
Penciller(s): Jack Cole [as Ralph Johns]
Inker(s): Jack Cole
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Windy Breeze
Character(s): Windy Breeze
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Pages: 1
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Captain Eddie Hickens Down At Sea

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Andre LeBlanc
Inker(s): Andre Leblanc
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Feature(s): Destroyer 171
Character(s): Lt. Commander Harvey Blake; Capt. Eddie Hickens (first appearance); The Japanese (villains)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Story inspired by Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker's stranding at sea.
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The Living Dummy

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Gill Fox
Penciller(s): Gill Fox
Inker(s): Gill Fox
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, childrens, humorous
Feature(s): Kid Patrol
Character(s): Kid Patrol; A living dummy (first appearance); Dr. Revalis (first appearance; villain; death)
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Pages: 6
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Skull Island

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 2
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Sweating Out the Japanese

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Fred Guardineer (signed)
Penciller(s): Fred Guardineer (signed)
Inker(s): Fred Guardineer (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Quicksilver
Character(s): Quicksilver [Max]; the apanese (villains)
Synopsis: Quicksilver joins the Civil Air Patrol and is assigned to watch the South Pacific for Japanese activity.
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: In this story, Quicksilver claims that taking a "good swig of ocean water" keeps him in shape by replenishing his body's salts.
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Death In a Crowded Room

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Al Gabrielle ?
Inker(s): Al Gabrielle ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: espionage
Feature(s): G-2
Character(s): G-2 [Captain Don Leash]; Governor Tweed (introduction); Spana (introduction); Senator Hutton (introduction); King Spy (villain, introduction); other Nazi spies (villains, introduction for all)
Synopsis: The Nazi, King Spy, uses his 5th Column ring to take over a hotel in order to use it as a base to kill Washington D.C. officials.
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Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: Art previously credited to Don Rico ?

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