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Issue: Military Comics #12 Public Domain
Publication Date: October 1942
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Issues: #12 of 43 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagQuality Comics
Brand: Quality Comic GroupView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Comic Magazines Inc.
On Sale Date: 08/05/1942
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 13 (12 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. 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: adventure, war
Feature(s): Blackhawk
Character(s): Blackhawk; Chop-Chop; Olaf; Andre; Stanislaus; Hendrickson; Chuck; The Sniper; Inferior Man
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In Issue: FlagThe Blackhawk Archives #1 published November 2001
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Pencils/inks:
1) Previously credited to Crandall.
2) Cuidera stated by Keif A. Fromm and Paul Robinson
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The Curse of Xanukhara

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Dick French
Penciller(s): Reed Crandall ?; Rudy Palais ?
Inker(s): Reed Crandall ?; Rudy Palais ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Sam Rosen
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, war
Feature(s): Blackhawk
Character(s): Blackhawks [Blackhawk; Andre; Chuck; Hendrickson; Olaf; Stanislaus]; Major Brandon; unnamed colonel; The "Briefcase Bearer" (introduction, unknown bearded narrator, next in #29); Xanukhara (villain, introduction, next in #29); Zara (villain, sentry for Xanukhara); Hammil Zorrex (introduction, original briefcase bearer, death); Korz (villain, death)
Synopsis: The Blackhawks are in pursuit of a leather briefcase containing a priceless, pre-determined plan of human existence which will be disrupted upon its disclosure, and which affects the outcome of World War II. In fact, two billion years of evolution are but a chapter in the gigantic plan.
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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 a panel on the cover.

The Archive edition states that Alex Kotzky appears to have assisted Crandall on his early Blackhawk stories.

Xanukhara's and the "Briefcase Bearer"'s next appearances are in Military Comics #29. Chop-Chop appears on the cover only.
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The Trial of Count Grubber

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Ted Udall
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, war
Feature(s): Sniper
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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Fruitcakes in France

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 Mess in Tokyo

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bob Powell
Penciller(s): Bob Powell [as Bud Ernes]
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 Gestapo's Costume Ball

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Bob Hebberd
Inker(s): Bob Hebberd
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: espionage
Feature(s): X of the Underground
Character(s): X, Sonya, Bob (Jimmy) Gray, General Rottenbum, Gerta.
First Line: Tovarich! You do not know me, my friends?
Synopsis: In Yugoslavia, X and her female underground agents infiltrate a costume ball to foil a Nazi plan.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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The Mikado's Fishing Trip

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Fred Kida
Inker(s): Fred Kida
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: naval, war
Feature(s): Phantom Clipper
Character(s): Hirohito (villain)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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Torpedo Tussle

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Al Jaffee
Penciller(s): Al Jaffee
Inker(s): Al Jaffee
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Inferior Man
Character(s): Inferior Man
Synopsis: Inferior Man joins the Navy.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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Deathtrap for the Death 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 Dyne; Boris; Goucho; Frere Jacques; Mademoiselle from Armentieres; Prince Totinhot]; Gramps (returns from the "dead"); Hank (returns from the "dead"); King Hotintot (returns from the "dead"); Adolf Hitler (villain)
Synopsis: When Del flies through a strange gas, he hallucinates about his fallen comrades: King Hotintot, Gramps and Hank, and their voices guided him home safely. When he regains his senses, he discovers that the three believed dead partners are still alive after having been nursed back to health.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: The Death Patrol's next appearance is in Military Comics #20.
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Death to the Killer!

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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The Thing

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): The Blue Tracer
Character(s): Captain William "Wild Bill" Dunn; Private Boomerang Jones; The Thing (villain, introduction, a robot, death); Emperor Hirohito (villain); the Japanese (villains)
Synopsis: The Tracer must fend off its Japanese military robot counterpart, The Thing, which is equally impervious to harm.......that is, until Dunn discovers its Achilles Heel: the human operator!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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Saga of the U.S.S. Marblehead

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: 8
Disclose Notes: true story
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Navy Blimp K-5

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: naval, war
Feature(s): Atlantic Patrol
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1

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