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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:
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 12 (11 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Will Eisner
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; Floating Island of Death

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Chuck Cuidera
Inker(s): Chuck Cuidera
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, war
Feature(s): Blackhawk
Character(s): Blackhawk; Olaf
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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
Writer(s): Will Eisner ?
Penciller(s): Chuck Cuidera [as Chas. Cuidera) (signed)
Inker(s): Chuck Cuidera [as Chas. Cuidera] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Sam Rosen
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, war
Feature(s): Blackhawk
Character(s): Blackhawks [Blackhawk; Hendrickson; Olaf; Zeg; Chop-Chop; 2 other unidentifiable members (see Note #3 for possible candidates)]; 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 hoards of Arabs would sweep the English from Africa and control the Suez Canal.
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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
Writer(s): Fred Guardineer
Penciller(s): Fred Guardineer
Inker(s): Fred Guardineer
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: aviation, war
Feature(s): Blue Tracer
Character(s): 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
Writer(s): Bob Powell
Penciller(s): Bob Powell (Bud Ernest)
Inker(s): Bob Powell
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: aviation
Feature(s): Loops and Banks
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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Two Freaks and the Greeks

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Klaus Nordling
Penciller(s): Klaus Nordling
Inker(s): Klaus Nordling
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: aviation
Feature(s): Shot and Shell
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
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The Bandleader Spy

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Tom Hickey
Inker(s): Tom Hickey
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Miss America
Character(s): Miss America [Joan Dale]; Tim Healy (Joan's boss)
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): ?
Penciller(s): Bill Smith [as John Stewart] (signed)
Inker(s): Bill Smith [as John Stewart] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Yankee Eagle
Character(s): Jerry Noble; Sam (an eagle)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Art credits suggested by Jerry Bails’ Who’s Who.
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The Five-Point Invasion of Britain

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Dave Berg
Penciller(s): Dave Berg
Inker(s): Dave Berg
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: aviation, humorous, war
Feature(s): Death Patrol
Character(s): The Death Patrol [Del Van Dyne; Gramps; Hank; Butch (death); Zazzy; Chief Chuck-a-Lug (introduction)]; the Nazis (villains, some die)
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]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Tex Blaisdell; Lake French
Penciller(s): Tex Blaisdell; Lake French
Inker(s): Tex Blaisdell; Lake French
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Sabotage
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Plot to Sink the Barracuda

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Elmer Wexler ?
Inker(s): Elmer Wexler ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): H.M.S. Barracuda
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
Writer(s): Tex Blaisdell
Letterer(s): typeset
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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
Writer(s): Al McWilliams
Penciller(s): Al McWilliams
Inker(s): Al McWilliams
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: drama, war
Feature(s): Secret War News
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
Disclose Notes: true story of the sinking of the Bismarck

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