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| Name | Navy History and Tradition 1782-1817 | Published |
| Publication | Price: 0.00 FREE | Pages: 20 | Editing: Stokes Walesby? |
| Notes | Giveaway comic. 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 |
| Feature | Sailor |
| Genre | History |
| Characters | American sailor |
| Illustration | Sail And Rigging Plan Constitution (1 page) |
| Feature | U.S. Constitution |
| Letters | typeset |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| Notes | On inside front cover. |
| Comic Story | Launching The U.S. Navy (3 pages) |
| Synopsis | Faced with merchant depredation by the Barbary pirates, the United States builds a navy to oppose them. |
| Script | Theodore Roscoe? |
| Letters | typeset |
| Genre | History |
| Characters | American seamen; Barbary pirates; George Washington; John Adams; Thomas Jefferson |
| First Line | Once upon a time (as old storybooks used to put it) the American nation was without a navy. |
| Comic Story | Thomas Truxtun (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Under Truxton's leadership, America's new frigates best French vessels in several ship-to-ship encounters. |
| Feature | Thomas Truxtun |
| Script | Theodore Roscoe? |
| Letters | typeset |
| Genre | Non-fiction; History; Military |
| Characters | Thomas Truxton; Midshipman Jarvis; American sailors |
| First Line | Who was to lead the newborn U. S. Navy? |
| Comic Story | The Tripolitan War (1 page) |
| Synopsis | The U. S. squadron fighting Tripoli gets off to a good start under Preble, but soon loses U.S.S. Philadelphia. |
| Script | Theodore Roscoe? |
| Letters | typeset |
| Genre | History |
| Characters | Edward Preble; Bashaw of Tripoli; American sailors; Barbary pirates |
| First Line | While the new U. S. Navy was teaching the French a lesson in the Caribbean, the Barbary pirates were running rampant in the Mediterranean. |
| Comic Story | Stephen Decatur (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Decatur leads a valiant raid that destroys the captured frigate Philadelphia, then goes on to continued distinction. |
| Feature | Stephen Decatur |
| Script | Theodore Roscoe? |
| Letters | typeset |
| Genre | Non-fiction; History; Military |
| Characters | Edward Preble; Stephen Decatur; Bashaw of Tripoli; Reuben James; American sailors; Barbary pirates |
| First Line | It was bad enough to lose Philadelphia, worse to see her flying the Bashaw's flag. |
| Comic Story | The War Of 1812 (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Though heavily outnumbered, the U. S. Navy prepares for war against Britain. |
| Script | Theodore Roscoe? |
| Letters | typeset |
| Genre | Non-fiction; History; Military |
| Characters | American sailors; British sailors; James Madison |
| First Line | Freedom of the Mediterranean -- that's what the little U. S. Navy fought for in the war against the Barbary pirates. |
| Comic Story | Constitution Downs Guerriere (3 pages) |
| Synopsis | U.S.S. Constitution wrecks H.M.S. Guerriere in a ship-to-ship battle. Other single vessels also perform well. |
| Script | Theodore Roscoe? |
| Letters | typeset |
| Genre | Non-fiction; History; Military |
| Characters | Captain Isaac Hull; Captain Dacres; American sailors; British sailors; Jacob Jones; Stephen Decatur; William Bainbridge |
| First Line | After the close shave off Jersey, Constitution sailed north. |
| Comic Story | James Lawrence (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Lawrence loses a battle, his ship, and his life in a ship-to-ship duel. |
| Script | Thomas Roscoe ? |
| Genre | Non-fiction; History; Military |
| Characters | Captain Philip Broke; Captain James Lawrence; British soldiers; American soldiers |
| First Line | Blood in his eye, John Bull hit back. |
| Comic Story | David Porter (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Porter does well on his Pacific mission, but is finally defeated by superior forces. |
| Feature | David Porter |
| Script | Theodore Roscoe? |
| Letters | typeset |
| Genre | Non-fiction; History; Military |
| Characters | David Porter; American sailors |
| First Line | While navy fought valiantly on the Atlantic front, David Porter took light frigate Essex around the Horn to raid the British whaling fleet in the Pacific. |
| Comic Story | Oliver Hazard Perry (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Perry defeats the British in the Battle of Lake Erie, and Macdonough does the same in the Battle of Lake Champlain. |
| Feature | Oliver Hazard Perry |
| Script | Theodore Roscoe? |
| Letters | typeset |
| Genre | Non-fiction; History; Military |
| Characters | Oliver Hazard Perry; Thomas Macdonough; Stephen Decatur; American sailors; British sailors |
| First Line | On Lake Ontario opposing naval forces sparred to a stalemate. |
| Comic Story | Naval Inventions 1812 (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Fulton builds a submarine, a torpedo boat, and the world's first steam-powered warship. |
| Script | Theodore Roscoe? |
| Letters | typeset |
| Genre | Non-fiction; History; Military |
| Characters | Robert Fulton; American sailors |
| First Line | Those inventive Yankees! |
| Illustration | Some Major Naval Actions In The War Of 1812 (1 page) |
| Feature | Map |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| Notes | On back cover. |
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