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Issue: National Comics #23 Public Domain
Publication Date: June 1942
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Issues: #23 of 75 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagQuality Comics
Brand: Quality Comic GroupView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Comic Magazines Inc.
On Sale Date: 04/08/1942
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 16 (15 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, 1942, New Series, Vol. 37, 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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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult, superhero, war
Character(s): the Japanese
First Line: With Uncle Sam America's hero
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Pages: 1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as William E. Eisner] (signed)
Penciller(s): ? [as William E. Eisner] (signed)
Inker(s): ? [as William E. Eisner] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, occult, war
Character(s): Cadaver (villain, introduction, death); Koba (villain, Cadaver's aide)
First Line: A U.S. city near the Canadian border...
Synopsis: The evil Cadaver, gloating over having started the war in Europe, now uses his whiles to convince America that the Canadians are responsible for attacks on the U.S.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Character(s): school kids [Bobby; Margaret; Tom]; school janitor; Murphy (Policeman); Nazi spies [Madam Bloff; Otto; others unnamed] (villains)
First Line: It looked like a routine assignment...
Synopsis: Sally receives what she perceives as a dull blackout assignment: be stationed at a local kid's school. But Nazi spies, planning to blow up the Washington Bridge, make the assignment anything but routine.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Frank Kearns is a house name and not the name of an actual person.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Windy Breeze
First Line: There's Gramps Fuddle, the lady killer!!
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Pages: 1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: sports
First Line: Say, pal...
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Pages: 5
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Lynn Bird] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: aviation
First Line: Slowly crawling past a giant iceberg...
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Pages: 5
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Introducing the Unknown

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero, war
Character(s): Herr Baboon (villain, death)
Synopsis: The Unknown helps the Comitajis against Herr Baboon by capturing a munitions train and preventing the older people from being used as human shields by the Nazis.
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In Content Item: FlagMen of Mystery Comics #78 published March 2009
as Introducing the Unknown [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: The Unknown was a man with no name. Oddity: When he meets up with his evil adversary, he states "we meet again", as if there had been an adventure before this.

Even though his true name was unrevealed, he did have the alias of Pete Walker.

The Unknown was created by Ted Udall and Bernard Klein.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Miss Anderson (secretary in the Office of Public Management); group of Nazi spies [Henricks; Joe; Kurtz; Kaufman] (villains)
First Line: So you guys thought you could take this flag down...
Synopsis: Quicksilver gets on the trail of those responsible for blowing up five defense plants.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Salty Waters
First Line: Waters, instead of using you for sharkbait...
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Pages: 1
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School's Out

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, childrens, humorous
Character(s): Mrs. Scudder; Carl (caretaker); Carl's brother
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Pages: 5
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, occult, war
Character(s): Sergeant Mulligan; The Japanese (villains, some die)
First Line: Caught in the maelstrom of war...
Synopsis: Merlin uses the risen ghostly bodies of ancient pirates to assist an out-manned force of U.S. Marines against the Japanese.
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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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The Flying Gems

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
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Pages: 2
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Cyclone Cupid
First Line: So, due to the rubber shortage...
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Pages: 1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Sally (boat building company's owner); Nazi spies [Karl; rest unnamed] (villains, all die)
First Line: Defying the fury of active Nazi spies...
Synopsis: Wonder Boy spots a suspicious group of men planting TNT under some bridge supports and wades into them, later discovering that if the bridge had come down, it would have blocked a company's boat building harbor.
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Credits suggested by the Who's Who.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Miss Winky
First Line: Hmm--it sounds like a silly idea...
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Pages: 1
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Aboard the Destroyer U.S.S. Pawnee

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: war
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Lt. Commander Blake's surname is given as "Lake" in issues #23, #24, #26, and #29.

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