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Issue: National Comics #25 Public Domain
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Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagQuality Comics
Indicia Publisher: Comic Magazines Inc.
On Sale Date: 08/05/1942
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 16 (15 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
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. 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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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
?
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Subject Matter
occult, superhero, war
Uncle Sam; Buddy Smith; The Unknown (inset); Destroyer 171 (inset); Wonder Boy (inset); Sally O'Neil (inset)
America marches to victory behind Uncle Sam
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Miscellaneous
1
Adventure in Panama

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? [as Will Eisner] (signed)
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?
Subject Matter
occult, superhero, war
Uncle Sam; Buddy Smith; Senator Corey; Buddy; Fritz (villain); Pedro (villain)
Uncle Sam, Buddy and Senator Corey are kidnapped aboard a plane heading for the Panama Canal, and the criminal gang responsible is interested in the papers found in the Senator's briefcase. When they tell the detainees that they plan to use a freighter loaded with explosives to destroy the Gatum Lake Spillway, Uncle Sam disguises himself and frees the other captives and turns the tables on the gang.
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FlagThe Quality Companion #[nn] published November 2011
 
Miscellaneous
9
Reprint has the title "Adventure in Panama".
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
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?
Subject Matter
humorous
Windy Breeze
Where to this time, Unk?
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Miscellaneous
1
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
sports
Kid Dixon [Danny Dixon]
Hey, lady.......
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Miscellaneous
5
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
superhero, war
The Unknown; Colonel Hasenpfeffer (villain)
A German train loaded with military supplies speeds to the Russian front!
The Unknown meets a Nazi commander who took doses of cocaine for additional "courage", but which gave the Colonel super-human strength. Still, he was no match for the innate strength of the Unknown.
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Miscellaneous
6
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Subject Matter
superhero
Quicksilver [Max]
Once again, that king of speed...
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Miscellaneous
5
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
adventure, childrens, humorous
Kid Patrol
There's never a dull moment...
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Miscellaneous
5
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
mystery
Sally O'Neil
Daughter of a fighting clan...
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Miscellaneous
6
[untitled]

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

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
aviation
Prop Powers
As Prop and Lank wing their way...
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Miscellaneous
5
The Spider of Doom

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
occult, superhero
Merlin the Magician [Jock Kellog; also as Emperor Hirohito]; Professor Mordecai Twitch (villain, death); Vang (villain, Professor Twitch's assistant)
An acquaintance of Joch's, the mad scientist Professor Twitch, turns up dead at the hands of Vang, the Professor's assistant. Vang then uses the Professor's formular to create giant killer spiders. Merlin transforms himself into the likeness of Emperor Hirohito to fool Vang and capture him.
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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).
Ghost Town Murder

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

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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?
Subject Matter
humorous
This is your finish, Killer!
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Miscellaneous
1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
superhero
Crime vicious and sneaking...
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Miscellaneous
5
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous
I see that we'll have to win the game in spite of the umpire
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Miscellaneous
1
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
?
Subject Matter
war
Slamming through heaving ocean swells...
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Miscellaneous
6

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