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Little fuzzy, but good to read! |
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Images are a little small and ever-so-slightly out of focus, but the comic is still very readable. |
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al andriola art on margo feature? |
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Additional Information |
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Publication | Winter 1941 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: quarterly |
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Cover | The Revolt of the Villains! |
Featuring | Uncle Sam |
Credits | Pencils: Lou Fine | Inks: Lou Fine |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Uncle Sam; Buddy Smith?; King Killer (inset); Malvolo (inset); The Villain (inset) |
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Comic Story | Raiders of the Deep (14 pages) |
Featuring | Uncle Sam |
Credits | Script: Will Eisner? | Pencils: Lou Fine | Inks: Lou Fine |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Uncle Sam; Buddy Smith; an un-named inventor (villain, introduction, death); the Nazis (villains) |
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Comic Story | War in Kid-Land (14 pages) |
Synopsis | Sam and Buddy enter Kidland, an underground fantasy world where the children never grew old. The duo face the wicked Witch Queen, from whom Sam saves the residents of Kidland. |
Featuring | Uncle Sam |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Uncle Sam; Buddy Smith; President Franklin D Roosevelt; the inhabitants of Kidland (introduction for all); The Witch Queen (villain, introduction, death), the Monster (villain, a dragon, introduction, death) |
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Comic Story | The Villains' Revolt, or, Who Swiped My Comic Book? (4 pages) |
Synopsis | Comic book villains revolt and leap from the page to enslave the comics' creators. Sam rights things when he by convincing the villains to their role "cause the kids must have their heroes, and the heroes must have foes, so the villains should return to work, before the trouble grows!" |
Featuring | Uncle Sam |
Credits | Script: Will Eisner? | Pencils: Dave Berg | Inks: Dave Berg |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Uncle Sam; Buddy Smith; Hercules [Joe Hercules]; Neon [Tom Corbet]; Quicksilver [Max]; The Ray [Happy Terrill]; The Black Condor [Richard Grey, Jr. aka Senator Thomas Wright]; The Villain (villain, introduction) |
Notes | Story all in verse. Only Quality hero team-up ever? |
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Comic Story | The Fiddler of Death (10 pages) |
Synopsis | Sam faces the Fiddler of death, whose violin sounds was able to control animals. |
Featuring | Uncle Sam |
Credits | Script: Will Eisner | Pencils: Dave Berg? | Inks: Dave Berg? |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Uncle Sam; Buddy Smith; Malvolo (villain, introduction, death) |
Notes | The splash page of this story features the sheet music for the Fiddler's song. |
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Synopsis | The Webster family finds themselves aiding two Chinese soldiers who were fleeing from the occupying Japanese. When gunfire breaks out, Presto calls upon his supernatural abilities and diverts bullets meant for his kids into himself, and he dies. As he dies, he whispers the secret of his powers to Margo, one of which, hypnotism, is used to help free her brother and reporter Chick Benson from Japanese captivity. |
Featuring | Margo the Magician |
Credits | Pencils:? [as Bill Bydem] (signed) | Inks:? [as Bill Bydem] (signed) |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Margo the Magician [Margo Webster] (introduction, origin); The Great Presto (introduction, death); Jimmy Webster (introduction); Chick Benson (introduction); Hi; Lo; the Japanese (villains) |
Notes | Only appearance.
Feature probably created by Will Eisner.
Bill Bydem is a by-line and not the name of a real person according to the Who's Who. However, the writer now listed above, added by Craig Delich 2013-6-19, is suggested by the Who's Who. Also, re-arrange "Byden" and you get "Demby", whom Busy Arnold said was on his staff.
The Who's Who credits Bill Bossert as the artist, but the art is NOT comparable to Bossert's other features. |
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Text Story | Uncle Sam Tells Buddy Who He Is and How He Came To Be (1.67 pages) |
Featuring | Uncle Sam |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Uncle Sam (origin revealed); Buddy Smith |
Notes | The second text page is shared with the "Statement of the Ownership, Management, Circulation, Etc." |
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Credits | Letters: typeset |
Notes | Published by Comic Magazines Inc
322 Main St Stamford, Ct
Editor: Ed Cronin; Bus Manager Everett M. Arnold
Owners: Everett M Arnold, Claire C. Arnold, 198 Shore Rd Old Greenwich, CT
Henry P Martin Jr. 8 Foster Dr Des Moines, Ia
Printed at Buffalo, NY |
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Comic Story | The Return of King Killer (12 pages) |
Synopsis | King Killer returns for a grudge match with Sam, who is forced to bury the Killer in a collapsed mine shaft. |
Featuring | Uncle Sam |
Credits | Script: Will Eisner? | Pencils: Dave Berg? | Inks: Dave Berg? |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Uncle Sam; Buddy Smith; King Killer (villain) |
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