XOW Logo
  • Location
    • Home
    • Issue Detail, List Content Items
in for
   
by
Facebook Logo
Report a Bug Ask for Support Review Site Apply to be an Editor
Issue: Banner Comics #3
Publication Date: September 1941
Next Issue Variant Next Base Issue
 
Disclose Detail
Issues: #3 of 3 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagAce Magazines
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Periodical House Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 8 (7 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Aaron A. Wyn
Disclose Notes: no issues #1-2; this is the first issue
  Does this data need corrections? Become an editor.
Disclose Format
Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
Disclose Reprinted In0
There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted anywhere.
Disclose Reprinted From0
There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
Disclose Images2
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
Assets0
 
spacer
Disclose Content Items (8 total)
Disclose Issue Images
[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Jim Mooney (signed)
Inker(s): Jim Mooney (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Captain Courageous
Character(s): Captain Courageous
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jim Mooney ?
Inker(s): Jim Mooney ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Captain Courageous, Mighty Warrior!!!
Character(s): Captain Courageous (introduction); The Nazis (villains)
First Line: Mighty warrior!!! Master of the miraculous defender of liberty...
Synopsis: Captain Courageous,innocently enough, stops kids from bullying a girl and it snowballs into stopping a Nazi invasion of the United States.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 16
Disclose Notes: The Nazi army is equipped with super-weaponry that would be familiar to readers of Whiz Comics #3, right down to super-planes able to drop tanks.

Art credits by Craig Delich.
Disclose
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Otto Binder
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Lone Warrior
Character(s): The Lone Warrior [Stan Carter] (introduction); Dicky [Richard Carter] (Stan's younger brother, introduction); The Dictator's Shadow (villain, introduction); enemy saboteurs [Kampf; two others unnamed] (villains, introduction for all)
First Line: The dictator's shadow is falling across civilization...
Synopsis: Lone Warrior enlists in the U.S. Army and is stationed right by the boys' camp where his kid brother is in attendance. The two join forces to stop saboteurs at the Army base who are working for the Dictator's Shadow.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 16
Disclose Notes: There are noticable themes here: the patriotism, the Army private who is secretly a superhero, the kid sidekick, the chemistry-related origin, the murder attempts on Army generals....all of which parallel Captain America.

Binder is credited as a writer of this story by Bails's Who's Who.
Disclose
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Typhoon Tyson
Character(s): "Typhoon" Tyson; First Mate Anzac
Synopsis: Tyson Typhoon and the crew of the Sea Lion are transporting a scientist who enemy agents want to kill.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
Disclose Notes: last app. in OUR FLAG COMICS #1
Disclose
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Art Saaf ?
Inker(s): Art Saaf ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Kay McKay, Air Hostess
Character(s): Kay McKay; Ned
First Line: Kay McKay, an air hostess on 'World Wide Airlines'...
Synopsis: Ned and Kay are asked by the American Consul in Mexico City to return diamonds to Brazil, but gangsters have other plans.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
Disclose Notes: last app. in OUR FLAG COMICS #1. Though "only" an air stewardess, Kay can outfly her pilot, shoot a revolver, disable a plane, and stop an alligator.
Disclose
American Trail Blazers

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Warren Kremer [as W Kremer] (signed)
Inker(s): Warren Kremer [as W Kremer] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: aviation, biography, non-fiction
Synopsis: Capsule biography of Captain Jack Knight.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose
Mastermind Payoff

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Ralph Powers (credited)
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): George Wilson (signed)
Inker(s): George Wilson (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens
Feature(s): Paul Revere, Jr.
Character(s): Paul Revere, Jr. (introduction); Paul Revere, Sr. (introduction); Patrick Henry (introduction); Betsy Ross (introduction); The Thorns (villains, introduction for all)
First Line: 'Lo Pat!
Synopsis: Paul Sr. runs an anti-isolationist newspaper called "America Awake", which draws the ire of a Fifth Column group called The Thorns. Paul Jr. and his friends, Patrick and Betsy, are members of a club with the same name and fight the Thorns.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 10

Site designed and hosted by XOWTech, Inc..
Any questions or problems with this site should be directed to REMOVE-webmaestro-THESE@xowcomics.com.

XOW, XOWComics.com, XOWTech and XOWTech.com are registered trademarks of XOWTech, Inc.
© XOWTech, Inc., 2010 - 2024. All rights reserved.

Some data courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under a Creative Commons Attribution license.