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Issue: Military Comics #4 Public Domain
Publication Date: November 1941
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Issues: #4 of 43 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagQuality Comics
Brand: Quality Comic GroupView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Comic Magazines Inc.
On Sale Date: 09/05/1941
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 13 (10 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1941, New Series, Vol. 36, No. 4.
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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
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Desert Death

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, war
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In Issue: FlagThe Blackhawk Archives #1 published November 2001
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Desert Death

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, war
Character(s): The Black Tigress [Edda Heimat] (Nazi villain, introduction, death); unnamed hairdresser (Nazi villain); Mueller (Nazi villain); Nazis (villains, some die)
Synopsis: Blackhawk captures the Black Tigress, who warns him that he will not hold her long, and that soon vast hordes of Arabs would sweep the English from Africa and control the Suez Canal.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagThe Blackhawk Archives #1 published November 2001
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 11
Disclose Notes: Story title taken from the cover.

Letterer credit per Cuidera.

The 2 unidentified members are likely Stanislaus and Chuck (or possibly Boris). A full-page map of Blackhawk's Island is featured on page 11.
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Trap for the Blue Tracer

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: aviation, war
Character(s): Bill Dunn; Boomerang Jones; Herr Gaulieter; Nada (first appearance, villain)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Story includes blueprints of Blue Tracer.
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Saving the Columbia

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: aviation
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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Two Freaks and the Greeks

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: aviation
Character(s): Sam Shot; Slim Shell
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Tim Healy (Joan's boss)
First Line: Because of the powers bestowed upon her by the Statue of Liberty...
Synopsis: Joan quits her job on the newspaper and joins the F.B.I. She adopts her striking costume.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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The Fiddler and the Ape

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Jerry Noble; Sam (an eagle)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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The Five-Point Invasion of Britain

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: aviation, humorous, war
Character(s): The Death Patrol [Del Van Dyne; Gramps; Hank; Butch (death); Zazzy; Chief Chuck-a-Lug (introduction)]
Synopsis: The Death Patrol's newest member, Chief Chuck-a-Lug, defies orders in attacking the Nazis, and goes out and took down several Nazi planes.
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Pages: 6
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[untitled]

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, military
First Line: Why did I ever study camouflage?
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Pages: 0.75
Disclose Notes: Four one-panel cartoons. Final appearance.
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The Crap Game

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, military
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.25
Disclose Notes: Gag strip. Final appearance in Military Comics. The feature later shows up at Fox, in The Green Mask (Fox, 1940 Series) #10 (August 1944) and All Great Comics (Fox, 1944 Series) #[nn] (1944).
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H. M. S. Barracuda

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Character(s): Skiff Wilkins (first appearance, only appearance); Heinrich Himmler (villain)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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No Greater Love

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: war
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: true story; Bravery Award
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Bismarck Sunk

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: drama, non-fiction, war
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
Disclose Notes: True story of the sinking of the Bismarck.

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