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| Date | | Number: 18 | Lang: English (en) | |||
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| Name | National Comics 18 | Published |
| Publication | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 68 | Frequency: monthly |
| Notes | On sale date from the publication date reported to the U.S. Copyright Office found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1941, New Series, Volume 36, Number 4. Class B periodical. Copyright registration number B 524051. |
| Cover | 1 page |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | Uncle Sam; Buddy Smith?; Wonder Boy (inset); Sally O'Neil (inset); Quicksilver [Max] (inset) |
| Pencils | Lou Fine |
| Inks | Lou Fine |
| First Line | Starring America's hero Uncle Sam |
| Notes | Previous indexer identified the artist as Reed Crandall." "Reed Crandall expert Roger Hill agrees that this is not Crandall. |
| Comic Story | The Bombing of Pearl Harbor / Uncle Sam (9 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Axis Powers spread a wide net of mayhem, attacking Pearl Harbor (by the Germans yet!), Guam and Portland, Maine. Buddy's idea of building a wire net, carried below airplanes to foul up the invader's plane props, was quite successful. While defending the seas near Maine, Uncle Sam encountered the Spirit of John Paul Jones, which inspired Sam to use America's retired frigates to encircle the enemy in fire, even as enemy soldiers invaded Boston, Massachusetts. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | Uncle Sam; Buddy Smith; John Paul Jones (as a ghost; cameo); the Nazis (villains) |
| Script | Harry Stein (signed) |
| Pencils | Lou Fine |
| Inks | Lou Fine |
| Notes | This story eerily told of the bombing of Pearl Harbor.....and the magazine was cover dated December, 1941, even though the story was probably produced some six months in advance. Writer credit changed from Gil Fox to Harry Stein from an interview Gil Fox gave Jim Amash, portion of which reprinted by Amash on the Comics History Exchange on Facebook (7 December 2016). Fox confirms Stein wrote the story. Fox also disputes Will Eisner's claim he had researched and suggested the idea. |
| Comic Story | The Lie Detector / Windy Breeze (1 page) |
| Genre | Humor |
| Characters | Windy Breeze |
| Script | Jack Cole |
| Pencils | Jack Cole |
| Inks | Jack Cole |
| Comic Story | Baby Carriage Brouhaha / Kid Patrol (5 pages) |
| Script | ? [as Dan Wilson] (signed) |
| Genre | Adventure; Humor; Children |
| Characters | Kid Patrol [Sunshine; Porky; Suzy; Teddy] |
| Pencils | Charles Nicholas |
| Inks | Charles Nicholas |
| Comic Story | Crooks in the Country / Sally O'Neil Policewoman (6 pages) |
| Script | ? [as Frank Kearns] (signed) |
| Genre | Detective-mystery |
| Characters | Sally O'Neil |
| Pencils | Mort Leav (signed) |
| Inks | Mort Leav (signed) |
| Notes | Signed in the last panel. |
| Comic Story | The Phony Lighthouse / Prop Powers (5 pages) |
| Script | ? [as Lynn Bird] (signed) |
| Genre | Aviation |
| Characters | Prop Powers |
| Pencils | Witmer Williams |
| Inks | Witmer Williams |
| Comic Story | The Central American Jungle Caper / Wonder Boy (5 pages) |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | Wonder Boy |
| Script | Jerry Maxwell |
| Pencils | Nick Cardy |
| Inks | Nick Cardy |
| Comic Story | The Twelve Duplicate Jurors / Quicksilver (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Mobster Dutch Hanson kidnaps all of the State's witnesses against him and replaces them, deftly disguiised, with members of his own mob at the trial. Quicksilver turns the tables on them, however, freeing the captives and making them look like Hanson's own mob. When the trial started, Hanson was so confused that he confessed to everything! |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | Quicksilver [Max]; Carol Thomas (State's witness); Dutch Hanson (villain) |
| Pencils | Nick Cardy (signed) |
| Inks | Nick Cardy (signed) |
| Comic Story | Fury on the Florida Flyer / Jack and Jill (4 pages) |
| Script | ? [as Lowell Riggs] (signed) |
| Genre | Detective-mystery |
| Characters | Jack Doe; Jill Doe |
| Pencils | Art Saaf ? |
| Inks | Art Saaf ? |
| Story | Miss Winky (1 page) |
| Genre | Humor |
| Characters | Miss Winky |
| Pencils | Arthur Beeman |
| Inks | Arthur Beeman |
| First Line | Shucks! I thought this was a popular corner for things to happen! |
| Comic Story | Hollywood Hero / Kid Dixon (5 pages) |
| Script | ? [as Bob Reynolds] (signed) |
| Genre | Sports |
| Characters | Kid Dixon [Danny "Kid" Dixon] |
| Pencils | Klaus Nordling |
| Inks | Klaus Nordling |
| Text Story | Murder Takes the Comet (2 pages) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Script | Jerry Maxwell |
| Comic Story | The Levee Saboteurs / Paul Bunyan (4 pages) |
| Script | ? [as Storey Weaver] (signed) |
| Genre | Fantasy |
| Characters | Paul Bunyan; Babe the Blue Ox |
| Pencils | Reed Crandall ? |
| Inks | John Cassone |
| Comic Story | A Real Slugfest / Pen Miller (4 pages) |
| Genre | Detective-mystery |
| Characters | Pen Miller |
| Script | Klaus Nordling |
| Pencils | Klaus Nordling |
| Inks | Klaus Nordling |
| Comic Story | The Giant Mosquito / Cyclone Cupid (1 page) |
| Genre | Humor |
| Characters | Cyclone Cupid |
| Script | Gill Fox |
| Pencils | Gill Fox |
| Inks | Gill Fox |
| Comic Story | The Marsden Mystery / Merlin the Magician (6 pages) |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | Merlin the Magician [Jock Kellog] |
| Script | Fred Guardineer (signed) |
| Pencils | Fred Guardineer (signed) |
| Inks | Fred Guardineer (signed) |
| Notes | Lance Blackwood, according to the Who's Who, is a by-line on this strip. |
| The data in the additional content section is courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under a Creative Commons Attribution License. More details about this comic may be available in their page here | |

