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Issue: National Comics #20 Public Domain
Publication Date: February 1942
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Issues: #20 of 75 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagQuality Comics
Brand: Quality Comic GroupView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Comic Magazines Inc.
On Sale Date: 12/05/1941
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 16 (14 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Ed Cronin
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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A Smashing Adventure!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult, superhero, war
Feature(s): Uncle Sam
Character(s): Uncle Sam; Quicksilver [Max] (inset); Sally O'Neil (inset); Kid Patrol (inset)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Previous indexer identified the artist as Reed Crandall. Reed Crandall expert Roger Hill agrees that this is not Crandall.
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Shake Hands with Simon Bolivar

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult, superhero, war
Character(s): Uncle Sam; Buddy Smith; George Washington (as a ghost); Simon Bolivar (as a ghost)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
Disclose Notes: Uncle Sam refers to Buddy as his nephew in this story, but that was not biologically true. As Sam explained it, "every red-blooded American boy is my nephew!"
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Jimmy Cinch and His Heck Drivers

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Windy Breeze
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Pages: 1
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Bagrum and Barley Circus

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Bob Reynolds] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: sports
Character(s): Kid Dixon [Danny Dixon]; Bottle Topps; Colosso
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Art matches the Nordling sample at Jerry Bails' Who's Who.
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Madman of the Mansion

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Frank Kearns] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Character(s): Sally O'Neil
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: The artwork matches other signed stories by Leav.

Signed in the second to last panel on the last page.
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The Kid Criminals

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Jerry Maxwell (House Name)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Wonder Boy
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Pages: 5
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The Mine Field Plot

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Lynn Byrd] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: aviation
Character(s): Prop Powers
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: The artwork matches the Witmer sample at Who's Who.
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The Speed Demons

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Quicksilver [Max]; Joe (villain)
Synopsis: A crime boss invents a drug that gives his henchmen ten times their normal skill. One of them, a guy named Joe, became ten times faster, but Quicksilver's guile and unpredictability swing the battle in his favor.
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Pages: 6
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Coffee Criminals

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Lowell Riggs] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Character(s): Jack Doe; Jill Doe
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Pages: 4
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Cyclone Cupid
First Line: So your newspaper is going to expose my murder racket, eh?
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Pages: 1
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The Bike Bullies

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, childrens, humorous
Character(s): Kid Patrol
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Pages: 5
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The Island Spectre

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Cole Mynnes
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Terry Milton; Lew Poore
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Pages: 1.75
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Statement of the Ownership, Management, Circulation, Etc.

Statement of Ownership  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Everett M. Arnold
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 0.25
Disclose Notes: Printed in Buffalo, NY (Greater Buffalo Press)
Published by Comic Magazines Inc. 322 Main ST Stamford, Conn
Editor: Edward Cronin 322 Main St Stamford, Conn
Business Manager: Everett M. Arnold 198 Shore Rd Old Greenwich, Conn.
Owners: Everett M. Arnold, Claire C. Arnold,
Henry P. Martin Jr. 8 Foster Dr. Des Moines Iowa
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The Case of the Blind Peddler

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Character(s): Pen Miller; Niki
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Pen dosed with morphine
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Rattler and His Mob

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Storey Weaver] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, mythological
Character(s): Paul Bunyan
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: The art here is similar to other in this series credited to Crandall.
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On the Russian Front

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult, superhero
Character(s): Merlin the Magician [Jock Kellog]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Lance Blackwood is a by-line found on this strip and is also the pen name of Dan Zolnerowich. Zolne did no writing and the he is known as an artist only for this feature.

Writer and art credits from the Quality Companion (TwoMorrows, 2011 series) #nn (November 2011).

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