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Issue: Military Comics #6 Public Domain
Publication Date: January 1942
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Issues: #6 of 43 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagQuality Comics
Brand: Quality Comic GroupView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Comic Magazines Inc.
On Sale Date: 11/07/1941
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, 1942, New Series, Vol. 37, No. 1.
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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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The Vial 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; Nazi officer
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In Issue: FlagThe Blackhawk Archives #1 published November 2001
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Vial of Death!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Dick French
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; Chop-Chop; 3 other unidentifiable members (see Note #2 for possible candidates)]; Professor Hammel (introduction, death); Elsa Hammel (introduction, death); Pierre (Hammel's assistant); Fritz (Nazi villain); Nazis (villains, many die)
Synopsis: Blackhawk succeeds in getting a diabolical formula back for a destructive killer germ from the Nazis, who plan to use it to wipe out Allied forces, then takes it on the run as the Nazis concentrate their forces to catch him and get it back.
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In Issue: FlagThe Blackhawk Archives #1 published November 2001
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 11
Disclose Notes: Letterer credit per Cuidera.

The 3 unidentified members are likely Stanislaus, Zeg, and Chuck (or possibly Boris).
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To Kill a Commander

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
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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The Invasion of Iceland

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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The Crime School

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]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Wexler was an artist only, writing no strips that he ever drew, including this one. The Quality Companion states that Wexler only drew the first two stories, then left the strip.

Joan keeps tinkering with the design of her costume, with the stripes moving from her skirt to her blouse, with stars now appearing on the skirt.
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Clothes Make the Men

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 Trap for Jerry Noble

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 Painted Lady Patrol

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 Dyke; Gramps; Butch (appears to die, but returns in #12); Hank; King Hotintot; Boris (introduction)]; Nazis' version of the Death Patrol (villains, all female, all die); Adolf Hitler (villain)
Synopsis: Boris becomes the newest member of the Patrol as it seems Gramps has been killed saving the other members. Boris and the others go up against a female Nazi Death Patrol, whose wiles won't work on the male Patrol, who are all woman haters at heart. In order to escape alive, the male Patrol dons the female uniforms, leaving the ladies to wear the male uniforms, and which results in all of them being shot to death, mistaken for the men!
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: New member Boris is referred to as "The Borsht Eater". Writer/artist Berg demonstrates a flash of brilliance in this tale, with a stunning one page illustration depicting the cross section of a house with a member fighting in each room.
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Potato's Revenge

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Tex Blaisdell
Penciller(s): Tex Blaisdell
Inker(s): Tex Blaisdell
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Diary of a Draftee
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: last appearance
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The Fiend of the Wilhelmstrasse

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Ted Udall
Penciller(s): Vernon Henkel
Inker(s): Vernon Henkel
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, war
Feature(s): The Sniper
Character(s): The Sniper; Hans Kronitz (villain, chemist, death)
Synopsis: The Sniper faces a mad Nazi chemist who is able to turn men into monsters.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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The Avenger

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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Who Is Monsieur X?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Al McWilliams (signed)
Penciller(s): Al McWilliams (signed)
Inker(s): Al McWilliams (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: drama, war
Feature(s): Secret War News
Character(s): Monsieur X [un-named French freedom fighter] (introduction); the Nazis (villains, some die)
Synopsis: X succeeds in liberating a German ship filled with prisoners at Calais, France, and, with the help of another British ship, takes out a German destroyer. Although a Parisian newspaper reports that X was lost at sea, he, in fact, dove back into the English Channel and swam back to France to further torment the Nazis.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
Disclose Notes: Only appearance.

Although this tale is supposed to be a true story, research tells one that the phrase, "Monsieur X", appears throughout French arts and culture, but a search in the Le Petite Journal (archived on-line only through 1940) yields no evidence of this story represented in McWilliam's tale.

Henri Rousseau painted the "Portrait of Monsieur X" (Pierre Loti, a novelist who dioed in 1923). It was also the name used by an erotic photographer of the 1920's and 1930's. And in 1948, Edith Piaf recorded a song called "Monsieur X", a melancholy song about a beautiful man who wandered in sadness by the Seine.

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