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Issue: National Comics #26 Public Domain
Publication Date: November 1942
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Issues: #26 of 75 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagQuality Comics
Brand: Quality Comic GroupView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Comic Magazines Inc.
On Sale Date: 09/09/1942
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): Uncle Sam; Buddy Smith
First Line: They asked for it and Uncle Sam is going to give it to them!
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Pages: 1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult, superhero, war
Character(s): Uncle Sam; Buddy Smith
First Line: Uncle Sam again turns the tables...
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In Content Item: FlagGolden-Age Greats Spotlight #5 published June 2011
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Pages: 9
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Windy Breeze
First Line: Oh boy...a sale!
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Pages: 1
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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]
First Line: Hey, champ...
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Pages: 5
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Character(s): Sally O'Neil
First Line: Sally helps stretch the long arm of the law...
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Pages: 6
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero, war
Character(s): The Unknown; Herr Raval (villain, Nazi head of the French government, death); the Nazis (villains, all die)
First Line: In ravaged Holland, three Gestapo agents...
Synopsis: The new Nazi-backed leader of the Vichy French government is challenged by the Unknown, and promptly arrests a hundred of the French people in order to put them to death. The Unknown breaks into the prison complex and frees the Frenchmen, and attends to the Nazi swine as well.
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In Content Item: FlagMen of Mystery Comics #88 published January 2013
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To the Circus!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: adventure, childrens, humorous
Character(s): Kid Patrol
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Pages: 5
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Zimbamboo

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Quicksilver [Max]; Rufus T. Jones (King of Zimbamboo); group of foreign spies (villains)
Synopsis: When a volcano in the jungles of South America near Zimbamboo begins to smoke, the natives begin to do the Dance of Death, then, traditionally, sacrifice their king. But Quicksilver, realizing there is an Army detachment within ten miles of the village, heads south, just in case the villagers decide to attack the base and sacrifice U.S. soldiers to boot!
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Salty Waters
First Line: Y'mean they're givin' us a dance right here on ship board?
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: aviation
Character(s): Prop Powers
First Line: To what lengths...
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Disclose Notes: Final appearance in National Comics. Prop Powers appears next in Atomic Comics (Green Publishing, 1946 Series) #2.
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The U-Boat

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: occult, superhero
Character(s): Merlin the Magician [Jock Kellog]; un-named U.S. Army General; Adolf Hitler (villain, image); un-named U-Boat Commander (villain, death?); the Nazis (villains, many die)
Synopsis: An enemy u-boat surfaces along the Atlantic Coast, terrorizing a seacoast town with the threat of hanging ten citizens for each German soldier killed. Merlin decides to intervene in his own way.
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In Content Item: FlagMen of Mystery Comics #88 published January 2013
as The Beasts of Berlin [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Last Golden Age appearance. Next appears in All-Star Comics Vol. 2 #1 (May 1999) and dies in that story.

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).

The U.S. General in this story looks suspiciously like Commissioner Dolan in the Spirit strip.
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The Desert Always Wins

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: We got a tip that Elephant Ears McPutrid will try to rob this safe tonight
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Wonder Boy
First Line: The long bloody hand of America's enemies...
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In Content Item: FlagMen of Mystery Comics #45 published January 2004
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Last appearance in National. Next seen in Bomber Comics (Gilberton, 1944 series) #1.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Miss Winky
First Line: I just don't know what to do about Little Midge, Nancy
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: war
First Line: The U.S.S. Pawnee cruises on patrol...
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Pages: 6

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