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| This has to be one of the absolute worst covers of all time. A dreadful piece of art. Is he fighting or dancing?
I'd say it's also one of the 'gayest' covers ever but that would probably be politically incorrect.
Offends my eyeballs as a piece of art every time I see it.
I'm not an artist, so when I see a piece of art and I know, 'I can draw better that than that.' I know it smells. |
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| Ha! Ha! I have to laugh at the super-patriotic premise of "The Flag" character's stories, that a little boy has a birthmark that looks just like The United States of America's flag, and is adopted as an infant by a patriotic American. And he grows up to become a fighter for freedom for that country, aided by super powers bestowed upon him (ostensibly from The Great Beyond, by famous long-deceased U.S. presidents, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and a few more). That is eerily similar (at least in effect) to the code of Superman, a Space Alien, born with Superpowers (by Earth's standards),who was adopted by an average American family, and has sworn to fight for truth, justice, and The American way (a subject whose irony would get me banned from this forum if I were to broach it in the body of this comment). Back on topic, I am surprised that National/D.C. Publishers didn't sue Ace Magazines over this obvious copycat effort, as they did Fawcett Publications, over publishing Captain Marvel. |
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| Publication | February 1942 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Bi-monthly |
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| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Unknown Soldier |
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| Featuring | Our Flag; Super Mystery |
| Credits | Script:? (ad copy) | Pencils: Jim Mooney; Bruce Currie | Inks: Jim Mooney?; Bruce Currie? | Letters:?; typeset |
| Content | Characters: Flag [Jim Courtney]; Magno; Davey |
| Notes | Inside front cover. House ad for Our Flag and Super Mystery titles. |
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| Synopsis | On Boys' Day, Joe Crimson tricks the local lads into engaging in criminal activities. |
| Featuring | The Flag |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Flag [Jim Courtney]; Tommy Burton; John Courtney [Old Glory]; Joe Crimson; Mutt; Andy Davis; Mahon; Chuck Connors; Mike |
| Notes | The reprint only reprinted the first page of the story. |
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| Synopsis | Capt. Blake and his mechanic, Rusty, are sent to free a ship in the Panama Canal; however, a plane carrying Capt. Blake's father and vital intelligence information goes down over the Amazon jungle and Capt. Blake is redirected to assist in finding his father and retrieving the info. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Unknown Soldier; Captain Blake; Rusty; Mrs. Blake; unnamed Nazi soldiers; Robitz; Major Blake |
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| Synopsis | Karl Von Monsta plans to divide America in half by attacking flood ravaged cities and towns along the Mississippi River with his army of enhanced Nazi-trained soldiers. |
| Featuring | The Flag |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Flag [Jim Courtney]; Karl Von Monsta (villain); Mr. Benson; Mrs. Benson; John Courtney [Old Glory]; Martin Benson |
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| Text Story | Saddle Bum's Boomerang (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Joe Spooner returns to the homestead he abandoned 15 years earlier. |
| Credits | Script: Ralph Powers | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Whiskey Joe Spooner; Dave; Grat Hart |
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| Synopsis | The Three Cheers foil Malko's plan to blow up a dam. |
| Featuring | The Three Cheers |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: The Three Cheers [Sis; Boom; Bart]; Malko (Nazi); Billy Brown; Mr. Brown; Mrs. Brown |
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| Credits | Script: Aaron A. Wyn | Letters: typeset |
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| Featuring | Scientific Wonders of the World |
| Credits | Script:? (ad copy) | Letters:?; typeset |
| Notes | Inside back cover. Ad for the bound volumes of the "Scientific Wonders of the World." |
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| Credits | Script:? (ad copy) |
| Content | Characters: Lash Lightning; Magno; Vulcan; Paul Revere Jr.; Captain Courageous |
| Notes | Back cover. House ad for comics by Ace Magazines. |
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