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| Publication | October 1941 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
| Notes | Previous indexer identified the artist as Reed Crandall. Reed Crandall expert Roger Hill agrees that this is not Crandall. |
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| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Uncle Sam; Quicksilver [Max] (inset); Kid Patrol (inset); Sally O'Neil (inset) |
| Notes | Previous indexer identified the artist as Reed Crandall. Reed Crandall expert Roger Hill agrees that this is not Crandall. |
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| Comic Story | The Hollywood Invasion Plot (9 pages) |
| Synopsis | Spies discover fertile ground for an attack on a movie set. The director is so successful and powerful that he was able to procure the use of U.S. Navy ships. The movie is meant to stir American patriotism, but the set is infiltrated by fifth columnists. Buddy, on board one of the submarines, discovers this and turns the tables on the saboteurs, while the ghost of George Washington appears to Uncle Sam to alert him of the danger. Together, Sam and Buddy defeat the spies but only after several ships have been destroyed. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Uncle Sam; Buddy Smith; George Washington (as a ghost); Emil von Blon (Warren Brothers movie director); fifth columnists (villains) |
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| Comic Story | Rain of Soup (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Cyclone Cupid |
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| Comic Story | The Amateur Hour (5 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Humor; Children | Characters: Kid Patrol |
| Notes | The art match the Nicholas sample at Who's Who. |
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| Comic Story | Big Dan's Hundred Grand (7 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Sally O'Neil |
| Notes | The artwork matches some Leav-credited stories in Jumbo Comics #28-29. |
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| Comic Story | The Blank Check Swindle (5 pages) |
| Credits | Script:? [as Bob Reynolds] (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Sports | Characters: Kid Dixon [Danny "Kid" Dixon] |
| Notes | The art is similar to the Nordling sample on Who's Who. |
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| Comic Story | Pagi's Return to the Islands (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Wonder Boy witnesses the performance of a South Seas native and wonders if the man is really happy in this civilization or would prefer to return home. |
| Credits | Script:? [as Jerry Maxwell] (signed) (byline) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Wonder Boy; Pagi (South Seas performing native) |
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| Comic Story | The Soap Box Demagogue (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | A political boss is paying crooks across America to make speeches and to stir up dissent in a scheme to become president under a new party banner and to rule as a dictator. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Quicksilver [Max]; McGinty (villain, radical speaker); C.J. Merton (villain, 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. Viscardi, 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 unmistakable 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)". |
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| Comic Story | The Counterfeiter's Cannon (4 pages) |
| Credits | Script:? [as Lowell Riggs] (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Jack; Jill |
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| Comic Story | Paddle-Ball Champ (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Windy Breeze |
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| Comic Story | Herr Musser's Radio Plot (5 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Aviation | Characters: Prop Powers |
| Notes | The artwork match the Witmer sample at Who's Who. |
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| Text Story | Flames of Freedom (2 pages) |
| Credits | Script: Bowen Arroe | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Crime |
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| Comic Story | The Rustling of Babe (4 pages) |
| Credits | Script:? [as Story Weaver] (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Fantasy | Characters: Paul Bunyan |
| Notes | The art is very similar to Crandall's signed story in Police Comics #1, but the inking is a little different. |
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| Comic Story | The Sinister Swamp Camp (4 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Pen Miller |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Miss Winky |
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| Comic Story | Incident in Greenland (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Merlin boosts the Greenland natives' campaign against Nazi thieves with a giant walrus. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Merlin the Magician [Jock Kellog]; the Nazis (villains) |
| Notes | Lance Blackwood, according to the Who's Who, is a by-line on this strip. |
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