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Issue: National Comics #6 Public Domain
Publication Date: December 1940
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Issues: #6 of 75 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagQuality Comics
Brand: Quality Comic GroupView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Comic Magazines Inc.
On Sale Date: 10/04/1940
Volume:
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 13 (12 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1940, New Series, Vol. 35, 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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Uncle Sam Smashes the Undersea Air Base!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Uncle Sam; Quicksilver [Max]; Merlin (inset)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Sabotage

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult, superhero, war
Character(s): Uncle Sam; Nazis (villains)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
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Mademoiselle Morgue

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Character(s): Sally O'Neil; Scar and his gang (first appearance; villains)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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Dead Street

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, childrens, humorous
Character(s): Kid Patrol; Sir Chamberlain Bumbershoot (first appearance); Sir Chamberlain Bumbershoot's sister (first appearance)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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The Story of Joey McGraw

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: sports
Character(s): Kid Dixon [Danny "Kid" Dixon]; Joey McGraw (first apearance); Joey McGraw's mother (first appearance)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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The Johnny Doring Case

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Wonder Boy; Three crooks (first appearance; villains); Johnny Doring (first appearance); Mrs. Doring (first appearance); Mr. Deems (first appearance; death); Mrs. Deems (first appearance); Christy Deems (first appearance)
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Pages: 6
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The Blades of Baron Hoff

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Quicksilver; Baron Hoff (first appearance; villain)
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Inking style is not the same as the previous issue.
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The European-American Band

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Character(s): Pen Miller; Capt. Wrath and the European-American Band (first appearance; villains)
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Pages: 5
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The Ape-Man Strikes

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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, mythological
Character(s): Paul Bunyan; King (first appearance; an ape-man); Barnham (first appearance; villain); Joe (first appearance; villain)
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Pages: 5
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The Dangerous Message

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): ? (illustrations)
Inker(s): ? (illustrations)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Yankee Doodle Boy
Character(s): Yankee Doodle Boy
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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The Secret Nazi Air Base

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: aviation
Character(s): Prop Powers; Nazi spies (first appearance; villains; death)
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Pages: 6
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Windy Breeze
First Line: Land ahoy!!
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Pages: 2
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Unboring Mr. Marlow

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ? (signed as Lance Blackwood)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Merlin the Magician [Jock Kellog]; J. D. Marlow (introduction)
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Lance Blackwood is a by-line found on this strip and is also the pen name of Dan Zolnerowich. Zolne did no writing and the he is known as an artist only for this feature.

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