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| Publication | April 1942 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Uncle Sam; Buddy Smith; Quicksilver [Max] (inset); Sally O'Neil (inset); Kid Patrol (inset) |
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| Synopsis | Sam intervened during the sentencing of some underage thugs, and begged the court's mercy for them. Sam took the four boys under his wing (all save one, who had actually killed a man), and, surprisingly, the boy's reformation begins with a Sunday trip to church! |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Uncle Sam; Buddy Smith; Jook Jagger (villain); Spike (villain) |
| Notes | Compare art with Police #13's Firebrand story. Note awkward figure positions and strange shoulder, elbow and wrist angles. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Windy Breeze |
| Notes | story is not signed. |
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| Credits | Script:? [as Bob Reynolds] (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Sports | Characters: Kid Dixon [Danny Dixon]; Joe Cahoot |
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| Synopsis | Quicksilver takes to the air and dismantles a Japanese bomber fleet heading toward San Francisco. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Quicksilver [Max]; the Japanese (villains) |
| Notes | previously credited to Paul Gustavson, but this is the same artist who drew all the previous Quicksilver stories. |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure; Humor; Children | Characters: Kid Patrol |
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| Credits | Script:? [as Lynn Bird] (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Aviation | Characters: Prop Powers |
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| Synopsis | Sally takes on a nest of Japanese spies. Alone. |
| Credits | Script:? [as Frank Kearns] (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Sally O'Neil |
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| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Pen Miller; Chop |
| Notes | Final appearance in National Comics. Pen Miller will move to Crack Comics (Quality Comics, 1940 Series) starting with issue #23 (May 1942). |
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| Synopsis | Cupid meets the Cupid of the "colored folks". |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Wonder Boy |
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| Credits | Script:? [as Lowell Riggs] (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Jack Doe; Jill Doe |
| Notes | Final appearance. |
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| Text Story | Huntin' Mutt (2 pages) |
| Credits | Script: Gene Roberts | Letters: typeset |
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| Credits | Script:? (signed as Storey Weaver) |
| Content | Genre: Fantasy | Characters: Paul Bunyan; Babe the Blue Ox |
| Notes | Saltarella thinks the art is by Nick Cardy with, possibly, Chuck Winter inks.
Final appearance in National Comics and in a Quality publication. The next publishers to have features based on the Paul Bunyan from folklore will be Charlton (in Cowboy Western Comics (Charlton, 1948 Series)) and David McKay (in Blondie Comics (David McKay, 1947 Series)), both in 1948. (In 1945 Prize will have a feature named "Paul Bunyan" in Treasure Comics (Prize, 1945 Series), but that is a super-hero who calls himself Paul Bunyan.) |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Miss Winky |
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| Comic Story | The New Fighter Plane (6 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Merlin the Magician [Jock Kellog] |
| Notes | Lance Blackwood, according to the Who's Who, is a by-line on this strip. |
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