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| Name | Navy History and Tradition 1772-1778 | Published |
| Publication | Price: 0.00 FREE | Pages: 20 |
| Notes | Indexed from scanned copy at https://digitalcomicmuseum.com, and from a print copy. On-sale date from 1958 Books and Pamphlets, Copyright Office, Library of Congress. |
| Cover | The Daring and Diplomacy That Built a Great Nation and Navy / 1 page |
| Pencils | Stokes Walesby |
| Inks | Stokes Walesby |
| Genre | Non-fiction; History; Military |
| Characters | Esek Hopkins; John Barry; Lambert Wickes; John Paul Jones |
| Illustration | Naval Arms 1772-1782 (1 page) |
| Pencils | Stokes Walesby |
| Inks | Stokes Walesby |
| Genre | Non-fiction; Military |
| First Line | Going to war in 1775 the American patriots were short of weapons. |
| Notes | On inside front cover. Review of naval arms during the American Revolution. |
| Comic Story | Machias Maine 1775 (1 page) |
| Synopsis | As Revolution breaks out, Jeremiah O'Brien leads men to jury-rig a fighting ship, and ambush an incoming British vessel. |
| Script | Theodore Roscoe |
| Pencils | Stokes Walesby |
| Inks | Stokes Walesby |
| Genre | Non-fiction; History; Military |
| Characters | Jeremiah O'Brien; Maine sailors; British sailors |
| First Line | In the spring of 1775 New England was up in arms. |
| Comic Story | Schooner Hannah 1776 (1 page) |
| Synopsis | George Washington outfits a handful of raiding vessels. |
| Script | Theodore Roscoe |
| Pencils | Stokes Walesby |
| Inks | Stokes Walesby |
| Genre | Non-fiction; History; Military |
| Characters | John Manley; sailors |
| First Line | George Washington saw that an American navy was needed to counter British seapower. |
| Comic Story | Esek Hopkins Squadron (3 pages) |
| Synopsis | Hopkins leads a raid on British forts in Nassau. He is largely successful, but uncertainty and inexperience make the success smaller than it might have been. |
| Script | Theodore Roscoe |
| Pencils | Stokes Walesby |
| Inks | Stokes Walesby |
| Genre | Non-fiction; History; Military |
| Characters | Esek Hopkins; John Paul Jones; American sailors; British troops |
| First Line | Urged to act by John Adams and other all-American patriots, the Continental Congress in December 1775 voted for a full-fledged American navy. |
| Comic Story | Lambert Wickes (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Captain Wickes carries Ambassador Franklin to France, then begins commerce raiding around the British Isles. His success causes panic and forces insurance rates higher, but on the return trip he and his ship are lost in a storm. |
| Script | Theodore Roscoe |
| Pencils | Stokes Walesby |
| Inks | Stokes Walesby |
| Genre | Non-fiction; Biography; Military |
| Characters | Lambert Wickes; Benjamin Franklin; American sailors; Captain Newman; Lloyd's underwriters |
| First Line | One of the great Revolutionary sea warriors was Lambert Wickes, captain of the 16-gun sloop Reprisal. |
| Comic Story | John Paul Jones (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | John Paul Jones successfully conducts aggressive naval warfare. |
| Script | Theodore Roscoe |
| Pencils | Stokes Walesby |
| Inks | Stokes Walesby |
| Genre | Non-fiction; Biography; Military |
| Characters | John Paul Jones; American sailors; British sailors; American marines |
| First Line | In the summer of 1776, Esek Hopkins' squadron was tied up at Providence, Rhode Island. |
| Comic Story | John Barry (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Even though wounded, Barry fights and captures two British ships at once. |
| Script | Theodore Roscoe |
| Pencils | Stokes Walesby |
| Inks | Stokes Walesby |
| Genre | Non-fiction; Biography; Military |
| Characters | John Barry; mutineers; American sailors |
| First Line | Captain Landais proving insane, frigate Alliance was given to Captain John Barry who had lost a Yankee frigate in a slambang battle off the coast of Maine. |
| Comic Story | Revolutionary Inventions (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Bushnell's technological innovations (submarines and floating mines) fail of their purpose, but offer great promise for the future. |
| Script | Theodore Roscoe |
| Pencils | Stokes Walesby |
| Inks | Stokes Walesby |
| Genre | Non-fiction; History; Military |
| Characters | David Bushnell; Sergeant Ezra Lee; local yokels |
| First Line | World's first combat submarine |
| Notes | On inside back cover. |
| Illustration | Voyages of America's First Naval Heroes (1 page) |
| Pencils | Stokes Walesby |
| Inks | Stokes Walesby |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| Notes | Map on back cover. |
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