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| Publication | November 1942 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Uncle Sam; Buddy Smith |
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| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Uncle Sam; Buddy Smith |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Windy Breeze |
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| Credits | Script:? [as Bob Reynolds] (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Sports | Characters: Kid Dixon [Danny Dixon] |
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| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Sally O'Neil |
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| Synopsis | The new Nazi-backed leader of the Vichy French government is challenged by the Unknown, and promptly arrests a hundred of the French people in order to put them to death. The Unknown breaks into the prison complex and frees the Frenchmen, and attends to the Nazi swine as well. |
| Content | Genre: War | Characters: The Unknown; Herr Raval (villain, Nazi head of the French government, death); the Nazis (villains, all die) |
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| Comic Story | To the Circus! (5 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Humor; Children | Characters: Kid Patrol |
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| Comic Story | Zimbamboo (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | When a volcano in the jungles of South America near Zimbamboo begins to smoke, the natives begin to do the Dance of Death, then, traditionally, sacrifice their king. But Quicksilver, realizing there is an Army detachment within ten miles of the village, heads south, just in case the villagers decide to attack the base and sacrifice U.S. soldiers to boot! |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Quicksilver [Max]; Rufus T. Jones (King of Zimbamboo); group of foreign spies (villains) |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Salty Waters |
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| Content | Genre: Aviation | Characters: Prop Powers |
| Notes | Final appearance in National Comics. Prop Powers appears next in Atomic Comics (Green Publishing, 1946 Series) #2. |
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| Comic Story | The U-Boat (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | An enemy u-boat surfaces along the Atlantic Coast, terrorizing a seacoast town with the threat of hanging ten citizens for each German soldier killed. Merlin decides to intervene in his own way. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Merlin the Magician [Jock Kellog]; un-named U.S. Army General; Adolf Hitler (villain, image); un-named U-Boat Commander (villain, death?); the Nazis (villains, many die) |
| Notes | Final appearance of the "Merlin the Magician" feature.
Final Golden Age appearance of the Merlin the Magician character. Appears next in All Star Comics (DC, 1999 Series) #1 (Early May 1999), where he dies.
Lance Blackwood, according to the Who's Who, is a by-line on this strip.
The U.S. general in this story resembles Commissioner Dolan in the Spirit strip. |
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| Text Story | The Desert Always Wins (2 pages) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Wonder Boy |
| Notes | Last appearance in National Comics. Next seen in Bomber Comics (Elliot, 1944 series) #1. Tracking of feature noted by Leonard Wolinsky via the GCD Errors list, February 2009. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Miss Winky |
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| Content | Genre: War |
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