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Issue: National Comics #21 Public Domain
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Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagQuality Comics
Indicia Publisher: Comic Magazines Inc.
On Sale Date: 01/07/1942
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: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1942, New Series, Vol. 37, No. 2.
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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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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
occult, superhero, war
Uncle Sam; Quicksilver (inset); Sally O'Neil (inset); Kid Patrol (inset)
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Miscellaneous
1
The Man behind the Man behind the Gun!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? [as William Eisner]
?
?
Subject Matter
occult, superhero, war
Uncle Sam; Buddy; I.J. Grab
When I.J. Grab enlists Nazi spies to stop the government from building new homes for his workers, Uncle Sam steps in.
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Miscellaneous
9
The Baby Contest

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Windy Breeze
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Miscellaneous
1
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? [as Jerry Maxwell]
?
?
Subject Matter
superhero
Wonder Boy; Nitzie (villain); Bugs (villain)
Looks are often deceiving...
Wonder Boy runs into murder on the campus of State College when a teacher is shot right in the middle of class.
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Miscellaneous
5
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
mystery
Sally O'Neil; Stacy Trent; Richard Trent; Batty Gogan (villain)
Scoring another home run...
A ball game ends when an out of the park homer explodes on contact.
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Miscellaneous
6
Signed in the last panel on the last page.
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? [as Lynn Bird]
?
?
Subject Matter
aviation
Prop Powers; Lank
America's security demands bravery...
Prop and Lank are doing coast watch duty when a freighter crashes into a treacherous shoal.
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Miscellaneous
5
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? [as Bob Reynolds]
?
?
Subject Matter
sports
Kid Dixon [Danny Dixon]
And in this corner, the challenger from Harlem....
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Miscellaneous
5
The Box

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
?
Subject Matter
superhero
Quicksilver; Lefferman; Klumac; Ken Butler; Lord Astor
Quicksilver chases a mysterious box from India and the spies who covet it.
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Miscellaneous
6
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
?
Subject Matter
mystery
Pen Miller; Count Lutefisk; Trellis; Niki
His quest brings him to accept....
Pen gets kidnapped by spies and has to find a way to send a message to Trellis.
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Miscellaneous
4
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Miss Winky
I've been saving for months to get a new fur coat--
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Miscellaneous
1
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Toni Blum ? [as Dan Wilson]
Charles Nicholas
Charles Nicholas
?
?
Subject Matter
adventure, childrens, humorous
Kid Patrol [Suzy; Terry; Sunshine; Porky]
The deafening beat of pounding hoofs...
The Patrol goes to the Rodeo, only one of the cowpokes is not on the up and up.
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Miscellaneous
5
Crime in the Hinterlands

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? [As Storey Weaver]
?
?
?
?
Subject Matter
fantasy, mythological
Paul Bunyan; Babe
Paul and Babe stumble on a gang of counterfeiters.
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Miscellaneous
4
Art previously suggested as by Reed Crandall, but that attribution denied by Crandall expert Roger Hill, who suggests possibly Rudy Palais or Mac Elkan.
Fighting Comeback

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Tim Powers
typeset
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Miscellaneous
2
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
mystery
Jack Doe; Jill Doe
Grand Central Station...
Jack and Jill run into French Axis spies at a Canadian ski resort.
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Miscellaneous
4
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous
This is a photo of "Stretch" the tallest crook in the world.
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Miscellaneous
1
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
occult, superhero
Merlin the Magician [Jock Kellog]
At the newly acquired tropical base in Trinidad...
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Miscellaneous
6
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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