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| Date | | Number: 23 | Lang: English (en) | |||
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| Name | National Comics 23 | Published |
| Publication | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 68 | Frequency: monthly |
| Notes | The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1942, New Series, Vol. 37, No. 4. |
| Cover | 1 page |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | the Japanese |
| Pencils | Lou Fine ? Reed Crandall ? |
| Inks | Lou Fine ? |
| First Line | With Uncle Sam America's hero |
| Story | Uncle Sam (9 pages) |
| Synopsis | The evil Cadaver, gloating over having started the war in Europe, now uses his whiles to convince America that the Canadians are responsible for attacks on the U.S. |
| Script | ? [as William E. Eisner] (signed) |
| Pencils | ? [as William E. Eisner] (signed) |
| Inks | ? [as William E. Eisner] (signed) |
| Genre | Adventure; War |
| Characters | Cadaver (villain, introduction, death); Koba (villain, Cadaver's aide) |
| First Line | A U.S. city near the Canadian border... |
| Story | Sally O'Neil Policewoman (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Sally receives what she perceives as a dull blackout assignment: be stationed at a local kid's school. But Nazi spies, planning to blow up the Washington Bridge, make the assignment anything but routine. |
| Genre | Detective-mystery |
| Characters | school kids [Bobby; Margaret; Tom]; school janitor; Murphy (Policeman); Nazi spies [Madam Bloff; Otto; others unnamed] (villains) |
| Script | Toni Blum (signed) |
| Pencils | Al Bryant |
| Inks | Al Bryant |
| First Line | It looked like a routine assignment... |
| Notes | Frank Kearns is a house name and not the name of an actual person. |
| Story | Windy Breeze (1 page) |
| Genre | Humor |
| Characters | Windy Breeze |
| Script | Jack Cole (signed) |
| Pencils | Jack Cole (signed) |
| Inks | Jack Cole (signed) |
| First Line | There's Gramps Fuddle, the lady killer!! |
| Story | Kid Dixon (5 pages) |
| Genre | Sports |
| Script | Bob Reynolds (signed) |
| Pencils | Klaus Nordling |
| Inks | Klaus Nordling |
| First Line | Say, pal... |
| Story | Prop Powers (5 pages) |
| Script | ? [as Lynn Bird] (signed) |
| Genre | Aviation |
| Pencils | Witmer Williams ? |
| Inks | Witmer Williams ? |
| First Line | Slowly crawling past a giant iceberg... |
| Comic Story | Introducing the Unknown / The Unknown (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Unknown helps the Comitajis against Herr Baboon by capturing a munitions train and preventing the older people from being used as human shields by the Nazis. |
| Genre | War |
| Characters | Herr Baboon (villain, death) |
| Script | Ted Udall (signed) |
| Pencils | Bernard Klein (signed) |
| Inks | Bernard Klein (signed) |
| Notes | The Unknown was a man with no name. Even though his true name was unrevealed, he did once use the alias of Pete Walker (see issue #28). Oddity: When he meets up with his evil adversary, he states "we meet again", as if there had been an adventure before this. The Unknown was created by Ted Udall and Bernard Klein. |
| Story | Quicksilver (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Quicksilver gets on the trail of those responsible for blowing up five defense plants. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | Miss Anderson (secretary in the Office of Public Management); group of Nazi spies [Henricks; Joe; Kurtz; Kaufman] (villains) |
| Script | Paul Gustavson (signed) |
| Pencils | Paul Gustavson (signed) |
| Inks | Paul Gustavson (signed) |
| Letters | Paul Gustavson (signed) |
| First Line | So you guys thought you could take this flag down... |
| Story | Salty Waters (1 page) |
| Genre | Humor |
| Characters | Salty Waters |
| Pencils | John Devlin ? |
| Inks | John Devlin ? |
| First Line | Waters, instead of using you for sharkbait... |
| Comic Story | School's Out / Kid Patrol (5 pages) |
| Genre | Adventure; Humor; Children |
| Characters | Mrs. Scudder; Carl (caretaker); Carl's brother |
| Script | Toni Blum (signed) ? |
| Pencils | Charles Nicholas |
| Inks | Charles Nicholas |
| Story | Merlin the Magician (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Merlin uses the risen ghostly bodies of ancient pirates to assist an out-manned force of U.S. Marines against the Japanese. |
| Genre | Fantasy; War |
| Characters | Sergeant Mulligan; The Japanese (villains, some die) |
| Script | Fred Guardineer (signed) |
| Pencils | Fred Guardineer (signed) |
| Inks | Fred Guardineer (signed) |
| Letters | Fred Guardineer (signed) |
| First Line | Caught in the maelstrom of war... |
| Notes | Lance Blackwood, according to the Who's Who, is a by-line on this strip. |
| Text Story | The Flying Gems (2 pages) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Genre | Adventure |
| Pencils | Gill Fox (signed) |
| Inks | Gill Fox (signed) |
| Story | Cyclone Cupid (1 page) |
| Genre | Humor |
| Characters | Cyclone Cupid |
| Pencils | Gill Fox |
| Inks | Gill Fox |
| First Line | So, due to the rubber shortage... |
| Story | Wonder Boy (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Wonder Boy spots a suspicious group of men planting TNT under some bridge supports and wades into them, later discovering that if the bridge had come down, it would have blocked a company's boat building harbor. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | Sally (boat building company's owner); Nazi spies [Karl; rest unnamed] (villains, all die) |
| Script | Toni Blum (byline, see notes) (signed) |
| Pencils | Al Bryant (see notes) |
| Inks | Al Bryant (see notes) |
| First Line | Defying the fury of active Nazi spies... |
| Notes | Credits suggested by the Who's Who. |
| Story | Miss Winky (1 page) |
| Genre | Humor |
| Characters | Miss Winky |
| Script | Arthur Beeman ? |
| Pencils | Arthur Beeman |
| Inks | Arthur Beeman |
| Letters | Arthur Beeman ? |
| First Line | Hmm--it sounds like a silly idea... |
| Comic Story | Aboard the Destroyer U.S.S. Pawnee / Destroyer 171 (6 pages) |
| Genre | War |
| Pencils | Al McWilliams |
| Inks | Al McWilliams |
| Notes | Lt. Commander Blake's surname is given as "Lake" in issues #23, #24, #26, and #29. |
| 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 | |
