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Issue: National Comics #18 Public Domain
Publication Date: December 1941
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Issues: #18 of 75 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: 10/08/1941
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 16 (15 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Ed Cronin
Disclose Notes: On sale date from the publication date reported to the U.S. Copyright Office found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1941, New Series, Volume 36, Number 4. Class B periodical. Copyright registration number B 524051.
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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
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult, superhero, war
Character(s): Uncle Sam; Buddy Smith?; Wonder Boy (inset); Sally O'Neil (inset); Quicksilver [Max] (inset)
First Line: Starring America's hero Uncle Sam
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Previous indexer identified the artist as Reed Crandall." "Reed Crandall expert Roger Hill agrees that this is not Crandall.
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The Bombing of Pearl Harbor

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult, superhero, war
Character(s): Uncle Sam; Buddy Smith; John Paul Jones (as a ghost; cameo); the Nazis (villains)
Synopsis: The Axis Powers spread a wide net of mayhem, attacking Pearl Harbor (by the Germans yet!), Guam and Portland, Maine. Buddy's idea of building a wire net, carried below airplanes to foul up the invader's plane props, was quite successful. While defending the seas near Maine, Uncle Sam encountered the Spirit of John Paul Jones, which inspired Sam to use America's retired frigates to encircle the enemy in fire, even as enemy soldiers invaded Boston, Massachusetts.
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Pages: 9
Disclose Notes: This story eerily told of the bombing of Pearl Harbor.....and the magazine was cover dated December, 1941, even though the story was probably produced some six months in advance.

Writer credit changed from Gil Fox to Harry Stein from an interview Gil Fox gave Jim Amash, portion of which reprinted by Amash on the Comics History Exchange on Facebook (7 December 2016). Fox confirms Stein wrote the story. Fox also disputes Will Eisner's claim he had researched and suggested the idea.
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The Lie Detector

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Windy Breeze
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Pages: 1
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Baby Carriage Brouhaha

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Dan Wilson] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, childrens, humorous
Character(s): Kid Patrol [Sunshine; Porky; Suzy; Teddy]
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Pages: 5
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Crooks in the Country

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Frank Kearns] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Character(s): Sally O'Neil
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Signed in the last panel.
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The Phony Lighthouse

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Lynn Bird] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: aviation
Character(s): Prop Powers
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Pages: 5
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The Central American Jungle Caper

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Jerry Maxwell (house name)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Wonder Boy
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Pages: 5
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The Twelve Duplicate Jurors

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Quicksilver [Max]; Carol Thomas (State's witness); Dutch Hanson (villain)
Synopsis: Mobster Dutch Hanson kidnaps all of the State's witnesses against him and replaces them, deftly disguiised, with members of his own mob at the trial. Quicksilver turns the tables on them, however, freeing the captives and making them look like Hanson's own mob. When the trial started, Hanson was so confused that he confessed to everything!
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Pages: 6
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Fury on the Florida Flyer

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Lowell Riggs] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Character(s): Jack Doe; Jill Doe
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Pages: 4
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Miss Winky
First Line: Shucks! I thought this was a popular corner for things to happen!
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Pages: 1
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Hollywood Hero

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Bob Reynolds] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: sports
Character(s): Kid Dixon [Danny "Kid" Dixon]
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Pages: 5
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Murder Takes the Comet

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Jerry Maxwell (house name)
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 2
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The Levee Saboteurs

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Storey Weaver] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, mythological
Character(s): Paul Bunyan; Babe the Blue Ox
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Pages: 4
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A Real Slugfest

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Character(s): Pen Miller
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Pages: 4
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The Giant Mosquito

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Cyclone Cupid
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Pages: 1
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The Marsden Mystery

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult, superhero
Character(s): Merlin the Magician [Jock Kellog]
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Pages: 6
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.

Writer and art credits from the Quality Companion (TwoMorrows, 2011 series) #nn (November 2011).

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