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Publication | Autumn 1941 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Quarterly |
Notes | Original cover pencil credit given to Lou Fine. Original cover inker credit given to Will Eisner. Per Greg Theakston, pencil work done probably by Dan Zolnerowich, with an unknown inker (2006-6-6). |
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Featuring | Uncle Sam |
Credits | Pencils: Dan Zolnerowich? |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Uncle Sam; Buddy Smith |
Notes | Original cover pencil credit given to Lou Fine. Original cover inker credit given to Will Eisner. Per Greg Theakston, pencil work done probably by Dan Zolnerowich, with an unknown inker (2006-6-6). |
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Comic Story | Forged Faces (14 pages) |
Synopsis | When Senator Bristol forces a "Youth Taining Bill" through Congress, children across the nation were herded into near slavery. Bristol then kidnapped the President and intended to assassinate his detractors in order to pass other Fascist laws. In time, they recruited Buddy and Uncle Sam was powerless to save him. Meantime, Bristol hired a sculptor to mold faces and create a duplicate of Uncle Sam and others, as he cried for war. But the nation was not ready, Uncle Sam freed himself, and rallied the country and military to end Bristol's fevered plans. |
Featuring | Uncle Sam |
Credits | Script: Will Eisner? | Pencils: Will Eisner (page 1... Splash page); Dan Zolnerowich (pages 2-14) | Inks: Lou Fine (page 1... Splash page);? (pages 2-14) |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Uncle Sam; Buddy Smith; Curwen (sculptor, introduction); Franklin Delano Roosevelt (face unseen); Senator Mason (introduction); Senator Northrup Bristol (villain, introduction) |
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Comic Story | The King of Crime (14 pages) |
Synopsis | Doctors Link and Blink bring King Killer back to life.....a man nigh unstoppable, with fangs and fearsome strength. In a protracted battle with Uncle Sam, Killer was finally brought down. |
Featuring | Uncle Sam |
Credits | Script: Will Eisner | Pencils: Will Eisner (page 1... Splash page); ? (pages 2-14) | Inks: Lou Fine (page 1... Splash page);? (pages 2-14) |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Uncle Sam; Buddy Smith; Dr. Link (introduction, death); Dr. Blink (introduction, death); King Killer (villain, introduction) |
Notes | Dan Zolnerowich was originally credited as doing the pencils for pages 2-14. Per Greg Theakston, Dan Zolnerowich did not do this work (2006-6-6). |
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Comic Story | Uncle Sam a Fake (6 pages) |
Featuring | Uncle Sam |
Credits | Script: Will Eisner | Pencils: Dan Zolnerowich | Inks: Lou Fine (page 1... Splash page);? (map) | Letters:?; typeset (2 pages) |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Uncle Sam; Buddy Smith |
Notes | There are 2 pages of text and a 2 page map of Everytown (Sam's city). |
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Comic Story | The Man Who Sold His Country (10 pages) |
Featuring | Uncle Sam |
Credits | Script: Will Eisner | Pencils: Will Eisner (page 1... Splash page); Dan Zolnerowich (pages 2-10) | Inks: Lou Fine (page 1... Splash page);? (pages 2-10) |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Uncle Sam; Buddy Smith; Horatio Brown (villain, introduction, death); the Devil (villain) |
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Comic Story | The Mad Poet, or, Uncle Sam Battles Inky Pinky Omblagoo Folder Dobble Bottlepoo (4 pages) |
Featuring | Uncle Sam |
Credits | Script: Will Eisner | Pencils: Dave Berg | Inks: Dave Berg |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Uncle Sam; Buddy Smith; President Francklin D. Roosevelt; The Mad Poet (villain, introduction, death) |
Notes | Story all told in verse. |
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Comic Story | The Steel Helmets (16 pages) |
Synopsis | As steel-helmeted invaders took over America, Uncle Sam, because people had stopped cheering for him and he lost his strength, fell ill and disappeared completely, fnding himself in another world where he was told the only way back was to fight through "swamps of ignorance and of jungles of lies." After completing these trials, Sam returns to America and its citizens embraced him again, which gave him the strength to overhtow their captors. |
Featuring | Uncle Sam |
Credits | Script: Will Eisner | Pencils: Will Eisner (page 1... Splash page); Dan Zolnerowich (pages 2-16) | Inks: Lou Fine (page 1... Splash page);? (pages 2-16) |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Uncle Sam; Buddy Smith; Senator Northrup Bristol (villain, death); the Steel Helmets (villains) |
Notes | Introduction: The Uncle Sam Club. |
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