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Issue: Stars and Stripes Comics #4 Public Domain
Publication Date: September 1941
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Issues: #4 of 5 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagCentaur
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Comic Corporation of America
On Sale Date: 07/04/1941
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Bi-monthly
Content Items: 11 (10 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: 29 Worthington St. Springfield MA. 2nd Class postage filed at Springfield Mass.
Executive Offices 215 Fourth Ave NY, NY

On sale date from the publication date as submitted to the U.S. Copyright Office found in the Catalogue of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1941, New Series, Volume 36, Number 4. Class B periodical. Copyright registration number 519199.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color cover; color interior
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Stars and Stripes [Pepper [Patrick J. O'Henry]; Whitey [Benjamin Franklin Allen]; Van [Vance Stuyvesant III]]
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Pages: 1
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Origin of the Stars & Stripes

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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Stars and Stripes [Pepper [Patrick J. O'Henry]; Whitey [Benjamin Franklin Allen]; Van [Vance Stuyvesant III]] (introduction, origin); Puff (spy); Rikor (agitator); John Mills (factory foreman)
Synopsis: Whitey, Van and Pepper are thrown into a concentration camp for opposing an unidentified European power. The trio escape together and return to the USA where they refashion their prison uniforms into costumes to fight crime. For their first mission they stop agitators who have been provoking unions into striking. They expose a plot to replace all union leaders with foreign agents.
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Pages: 12
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The Saboteurs

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Minimidget; Sam (engineer); Senator Bronges
Synopsis: Minimidget and Ritty stop saboteurs from derailing trains. This leads them to discover a kidnapped US senator who has been interrogated by spies for information on a new plane's test flight. Minimidget prevents the plane's destruction
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Pages: 7
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Fishing for Bears

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Igloo Iggy
Synopsis: Iggy's attempts to catch fish only attracts a bear.
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: There is no captions or words at all in this story, only artwork.
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Shark & Pop Save the Whalers!!!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Shark; Neptune
Synopsis: The Shark stops a foreign destroyer that was trying to set up a refuelling base for submarines.
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Pages: 8
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Hornet's Nest

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Stars & Stripes
Character(s): Stars and Stripes [Pepper [Patrick J. O'Henry]; Whitey [Benjamin Franklin Allen]; Van [Vance Stuyvesant III]]; Hans Horlitz (spy)
First Line: The place known as the "Old Mill" is a rowdy roadhouse just outside of town where anything goes...
Synopsis: Whitey, Van and Pepper catch a spy at a nightclub.
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Disclose Notes: 1/4 page of artwork
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Ships Sucked Down Under

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Iron Skull; Nazis [Erick; Holzman]
Synopsis: Iron Skull discovers Nazis have been wrecking ships through the use of a giant magnet.
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Pages: 8
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Mystery of the Missing Pitchers

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Mighty Man; Spec Smith (baseball player); Bill Teller (baseball player); Jack (Mighty Man's friend); Spec's sister
Synopsis: Mighty Man investigates disappearing athletes by going undercover as a baseball pitcher. Enemy agents use hypnotic gas in an attempt to make athletes murder the US President.
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Pages: 7
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No Union in the Army

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: humorous, military
Feature(s): Private Duffy
Character(s): Private Duffy
First Line: Companee - at-ten-shun! R-right dress!
Synopsis: Private Duffy thinks that as a union man he should be able to go home when the whistle blows.
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The Midas Touch

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Doctor Synthe; Ray Rodgers; Bettie
Synopsis: Dr. Synthe creates synthetic gold to solve his money troubles. The dictator of Moronia tries to force him to create gold but failed to reckon with how powerful Dr. Synthe is.
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Taylor signature in the last panel.
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Mr. Que's Magnified Ray

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Tommy the Amazing Kid; Mr. Que
Synopsis: The Great Question steals the Sky King dirigible to equip it with a giant magnifying glass and destroy the Panama Canal.
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Pages: 9

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