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National Comics #16
| Additional Information | |
| Publication | October 1941 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 68 | Frequency: monthly | Editing: Ed Cronin |
| Featuring | Uncle Sam |
| Credits | Pencils: Reed Crandall | Inks: Reed Crandall |
| Content | Genre: War; Occult | Characters: Uncle Sam |
| Comic Story | The Hollywood Invasion Plot (9 pages) |
| Featuring | Uncle Sam |
| Credits | Script: Will Eisner | Pencils: Lou Fine | Inks: Lou Fine |
| Content | Genre: War; Occult | Characters: Uncle Sam; George Washington (as a ghost) |
| Comic Story | Rain of Soup (1 page) |
| Featuring | Cyclone Cupid |
| Credits | Script: Gill Fox (signed) | Pencils: Gill Fox (signed) | Inks: Gill Fox |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Cyclone Cupid |
| Comic Story | The Amateur Hour (5 pages) |
| Featuring | Kid Patrol |
| Credits | Script: Toni Blum [as Dan Wilson] | Pencils: Charles Nicholas | Inks: Charles Nicholas |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Children; Humor | Characters: Kid Patrol |
| Notes | Blum is credited on script for 1941-42 by Jerry Bails' Who's Who. Nicholas is credited on Kid Patrol by Jerry Bails' Who's Who, and the art match the sample at Who's Who. |
| Comic Story | Big Dan's Hundred Grand (7 pages) |
| Featuring | Sally O'Neil Policewoman |
| Credits | Script:? [as Frank Kearns] | Pencils: Mort Leav | Inks: Mort Leav |
| Content | Genre: Detective | Characters: Sally O'Neil |
| Notes | Leav is credited on Sally by Jerry Bails' Who's Who, and the artwork matches some credited stories in Jumbo Comics #28-29. |
| Comic Story | The Blank Check Swindle (5 pages) |
| Featuring | Kid Dixon |
| Credits | Script:? [as Bob Reynolds] | Pencils: Klaus Nordling | Inks: Klaus Nordling |
| Content | Genre: Sports | Characters: Kid Dixon [Danny "Kid" Dixon] |
| Notes | Nordling is credited on Kid Dixon by Jerry Bails' Who's Who, and the art is similar to the sample on Who's Who. |
| Comic Story | Pagi's Return To the Islands (5 pages) |
| Featuring | Wonder Boy |
| Credits | Script: Jerry Maxwell (house name) | Pencils: Nick Cardy | Inks: Nick Cardy |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Wonder Boy |
| Comic Story | The Soap Box Demagogue (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | A political boss is paying crooks to make speaches and pull votes for his election. |
| Featuring | Quicksilver |
| Credits | Pencils: Paul Gustavson [as Nick Cardy] (signed) | Inks: Paul Gustavson [as Nick Cardy] (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Quicksilver; McGinty (radical speaker); C.J. Merton (political boss) |
| Notes | Several Quicksilver stories are bylined Nick Cardy, but the art is not in any way similar to his Senorita Rio stories in Fight Comics #19 and 21. They are signed N. Viscardy, his real name. Also Nick Viscardi's first Lady Luck story in the Sunday Spirit section for May 18, 1941 has a very different style from this one. It is identical to the unmistakeable art of Paul Gustavson. Either is Nick Cardy the writer, or just a byline name like most of the other byline names with no connection to any real artist used in Quality comics. A little mystery. Originally credited "Nick Cardy (signed)". |
| Comic Story | The Counterfeiter's Cannon (4 pages) |
| Featuring | Jack and Jill |
| Credits | Script:? [as Lowell Riggs] | Pencils: Nick Cardy | Inks: Nick Cardy |
| Content | Genre: Detective | Characters: Jack; Jill |
| Comic Story | Paddle-Ball Champ (1 page) |
| Featuring | Windy Breeze |
| Credits | Script: Jack Cole | Pencils: Jack Cole | Inks: Jack Cole |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Windy Breeze |
| Comic Story | Herr Musser's Radio Plot (5 pages) |
| Featuring | Prop Powers |
| Credits | Script: Toni Blum [as Lynn Bird] | Pencils: Witmer Williams | Inks: Witmer Williams |
| Content | Genre: Aviation | Characters: Prop Powers |
| Notes | Clark (or Witmer) Williams is credited by Jerry Bails' Who's Who to this feature, while Lynn Byrd is not found. The artwork match the sample at Who's Who. |
| Text Story | Flames of Freedom (2 pages) |
| Credits | Script: Bowen Arroe | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Crime |
| Comic Story | The Rustling of Babe (4 pages) |
| Featuring | Paul Bunyan |
| Credits | Script:? [as Story Weaver] | Pencils: Reed Crandall | Inks: Reed Crandall? |
| Content | Genre: Fantasy | Characters: Paul Bunyan |
| Notes | Reed Crandall is credited to this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who, and the art is very similar to his signed story in Police Comics #1, but the inking is a little different. |
| Comic Story | The Sinister Swamp Camp (4 pages) |
| Featuring | Pen Miller |
| Credits | Script: Klaus Nordling (signed) | Pencils: Klaus Nordling (signed) | Inks: Klaus Nordling |
| Content | Genre: Detective | Characters: Pen Miller |
| Comic Story | "What's This? Somebody shipping a dog to me?" (1 page) |
| Featuring | Miss Winky |
| Credits | Script: Arthur Beeman (signed) | Pencils: Arthur Beeman (signed) | Inks: Arthur Beeman |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Miss Winky |
| Comic Story | Incident In Greenland (6 pages) |
| Featuring | Merlin the Magician |
| Credits | Script: Fred Guardineer? [as Lance Blackwood] | Pencils: Fred Guardineer | Inks: Fred Guardineer |
| Content | Genre: Occult | Characters: Merlin the Magician [Jock Kellog] |
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