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Issue: Golden-Age Greats Spotlight #6
Publication Date: January 2011
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Issues: #6 of 20 Issues
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Publisher: FlagAC
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Indicia Publisher: AC Comics
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 6
Pages: 152
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: 649241921516
Price: $29.95 USD
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Content Items: 21 (16 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Trade Paperback
Color: Color Cover; Black and White Interior
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Binding: Trade Paperback
Publishing Format: Collected Edition
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17 Content Items from other Issues reprinted as/in this Issue:
FlagSpy Smasher #2 published January 1941 was The Red Death [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagPocket Comics #1 published August 1941 was [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)] black and white
FlagThe Eagle #2 published September 1941 was [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagYankee Comics #2 published November 1941 was [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagWonderworld Comics #31 published November 1941 was The Case of the Petrified Corpses [Story on Interior Page(s)] in black and white
FlagBig 3 #7 published January 1942 was The Meeting That Death Attended [Story on Interior Page(s)] in black & white
FlagOur Flag Comics #4 published February 1942 was [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)] page 1 only
FlagCaptain Aero Comics v1 #8 (2) published February 1942 was [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagYankee Comics #4 published March 1942 was Gambler's Payoff [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagHit Comics #24 published October 1942 was [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
FlagSpeed Comics #24 published December 1942 was [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagAmerica's Greatest Comics #7 published January 1943 was Minute Man In Berlin [Story on Interior Page(s)] in black and white
FlagCaptain Aero Comics v3 #9 (11) published September 1943 was [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagWow Comics #21 published January 1944 was The Temple of the One-Eyed Yellow Idol [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagCaptain Aero Comics v4 #3 [17] published October 1944 was [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagFour Favorites #17 published February 1945 was Unholy Death [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagPrize Comics v5 #3 (51) published March 1945 was Cash For Trash [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Character(s): The Great Defender [Stormy Foster]; Nazi soldier
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Summary Table of Star Spangled Avengers!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Flagman [Major Hornet]; Rusty; un-named mobsters (villains, all die)
First Line: Whenever the inalienable rights of the people are threatened...
Synopsis: Flagman and Rusty battle a group of mobsters who have built a tunnel under the West River that allows them to see cargo ships passing overhead, and then activate a device that sends up magnetic mines to blow up the ships. Then the group steals the valuable cargo they were carrying.
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Cash for Trash

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Yank [Rick Walters]; Doodle [Dick Walters]; The Black Owl [Walt Walters]; The Hunter (villain)
First Line: Jewels, money, valuable old paintings.. Those are small-time loot for the Hunter...
Synopsis: The Hunter is out to steal an illegally sold rare white elephant in a zoo any way that he can so that he can sell it for big bucks to a Rajah in India.
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Gambler's Payoff

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Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Yankee Boy
Character(s): Yankee Boy [Phil Martin]; Coach Johnson; John Bently (villain)
Synopsis: Hale Prep is trying to go undefeated in football and thus win the Harmon Athletic Award, which provides $10,000 to the winning school...money that Hale has earmarked for the American Red Cross. However, one John Bently has bet ten grand on Hale's opponent (at 5 to 1 odds) and stands to lose a fortune if Hale wins, so he and his men decide to kidnap the coach and star backfield to assure Hale's losing the game.
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The Meeting That Death Attended

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): V-Man [Jerry Steele]; Mickey (leader of the V-Boys Defense Corps); Ginger Dare; Clarkson (a pilot, death); Father Duroc (guest-star); Professor Schnell (villain, introduction, death); Herr Baron (villain, introduction); Von und Zu Schutz (villain, introduction); Countess Talya (villain, introduction)
Synopsis: V-Man must go up against a villainous group of Nazis intent on discovering the location of Father Duroc, the man who created V-Man and the leader of the European V-Groups.
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Eagle [Captain Grant Powers]; Buddy; Lem (Power's orderly); Sally Caldwell; The "Hand" (villain, death); Trent (villain, death)
First Line: All hands to the torpedo room!
Synopsis: The Eagle and Buddy investigate the mysterious sinking of the Navy's new submarine, the PX-1, which was carrying a fortune in gold.
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Genres: adventure, superhero
Character(s): Spirit of '76 [Gary Blakely] (introduction and origin); Major Ralston (Gary's grandfather); Captain Blakely (Gary's father); Tubby (cadet friend of Gary's); Captain Hoch (villain); the Nazis (villains)
First Line: Gary Blakely, great great grandson of Captain Ralston, aide-de-camp to General Washington, returns from England to serve the United States.
Synopsis: Gary is attending West Point, but his family tradition of serving in the military spurs him on to action before he graduates, and what better way than taking on Luftwaffe Captain Hoch, whose "Khaki Shirts" are planning to dynamite West Point.
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The Temple of the One-Eyed Yellow Idol

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Commando Yank [Chase Yale]; un-named High Priest of the Temple of One-Eyed Yellow Idol (death); the Japanese (villains)
Synopsis: Commando Yank takes up the dangerous challenge of removing the eye of a temple idol and placing into the opposite empty socket, a chore deemed impossible in native folklore. If he can, it will open up a secret tunnel, allowing the invading British Army to take on the Japanese.
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Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Red Cross
Character(s): The Red Cross "Modern Master of Medical Arts" [Captain Peter Hall]; the Japanese (villains, some die)
First Line: The hero of this story is not a fictional character!
Synopsis: The Red Cross sets out on an impossible mission: capture the city of Yeng-tu from the Japanese in order to retrieve medical supplies that were villainously taken under a flag of truce by the enemy.
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Unholy Death

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Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Captain Courageous
Character(s): Captain Courageous; John Judson (wealthy manufacturer); Judy Judson (John's daughter); Captain Nippo (villain); the Swami (villain)
Synopsis: The kidnapping of a wealthy manufacturer's daughter leads Captain Courageous right onto the trail of the Swami, who plans to get the plans for the secret precision instruments for the Superfortresses, made at the girl's father's plant.
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The Case of the Petrified Corpses

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Genres: adventure
Character(s): U. S. Jones; Grumbler Harris; Joe Harris; Nora; Leech (villain); Deen (villain, a giant), Grundy (villain, death)
Synopsis: Jones heads to the border between the U.S. and Mexico to combat a monocled killer, who is assisted by a kill crazy giant with a fish hook hand, both of whom are hijacking shipments of guns.
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Captain Freedom [Don Wright]; Young Defenders [Blackie, Joanie, Slim]; un-named Japanese [posing as Silas Green] (villain, introduction)
First Line: Within the grim confines of the Horror Mansion...
Synopsis: When the Young Defenders see a man horribly killed and get Don Wright to investigate a license plate number of the fleeing perpetrator, they find out the car belongs to an inventor named Silas Green, who has invented a horrible killing agent called the Yellow Death! Captain Freedom vows to track the fiend down.
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Minute Man in Berlin

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Minute Man [Jack Weston]; General Milton; Jonas Progg; Herr Gerst (villain); Joseph Goebbels (villain)
Synopsis: Jonas Progg owned art treasures that were stolen by the Nazis and Minute Man goes to Berlin to steal them back so that Jonas can sell them for War Bonds.
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The Red Death

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Genres: espionage, superhero
Character(s): Spy Smasher [Alan Armstrong]; Admiral Corby; Eve Corby; General Noosan (death); Jackson; The Red Death (villain, introduction, death); Mousey (villain, death); Hermann Fritz (villain)
First Line: From overseas comes a dreaded plague... a plague in the form of a master criminal known only as the Red Death!
Synopsis: America's greatest military minds meet together to discuss the landing of the Red Death on the shores of America, and one of them, General Noosan, is killed in front of them all by the Red Death. Spy Smasher follows one of the Red Death's gang to his hideout but is rendered unconscious after learning of the Red Death's plan to use a giant bomber to drop his "red death" on America's major cities. Spy Smasher escapes and fights the Red Death aboard his plane. Spy Smasher escapes from the plane at the last minute, which eventually crashes into the ocean, killing all on board.
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Yankee Doodle Jones; Dandy; Uncle Sam (cameo); Manfred Sapp [as Dr. Sigi] (villain, Chief of Nazi propaganda in the U.S.)
First Line: A torn and bleeding sister democracy begs America...
Synopsis: All seems well when Dr. Sigi announces that he will allow the premises of his sanitarium to be used by Americans wanting to donate blood for the cause of victory. However, what he really is doing is removing some blood, then innoculating the person with a hydrophobia serum.
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Feature(s): The Flag
First Line: A baby, born with a birth-mark on his chest resembling the American flag...
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Miss Victory [Joan Wayne]; General Tomas; Mr. Hardee; Pearson (a guard); Mark Hays (villain, a forger); Mr. Axis (villain, introduction); the Crusher (villain, introduction)
First Line: Organized bands of corrupt politicians and diplomats...
Synopsis: Mr. Axis uses every trick in the book, including the kidnapping of Mr. Hardee, in order to stop the signing of the Rumbian Rubber Agreement, which would assure ample supplies of rubber for America's defense needs.
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Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): Mac Movick
Inker(s): Mac Novick
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