Issue: #14
Published: August 1941, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing: Will Eisner
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age US Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1941, New Series, Vol. 36, No. 3.
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Comic Story (9 pages) |
The Great Darkness |
Featuring: |
Uncle Sam |
Synopsis: |
A strange plague strikes the navy shipyard rendering all employees blind. But Uncle Sam uses his audio phone, a machine that captures conversations from the past, to track down the culprits, who turn out to be Sam's old foes, the Black Legion. Sam alerts the military to stop the Legion and then cures the people's blindness. |
Credits: |
Pencils: Chuck Cuidera | Inks: Chuck Cuidera |
Genre: |
Superhero |
Characters: |
Uncle Sam Buddy Smith Baker The Black Legion (villains) |
Comic Story (1 page) |
The Shark |
Featuring: |
Windy Breeze |
Credits: |
Script: Jack Cole | Pencils: Jack Cole | Inks: Jack Cole |
Genre: |
Humor |
Characters: |
Windy Breeze |
Text Story (2 pages) |
Half-Mast |
Credits: |
Script: Toni Blum [as Anthony Lamb] | Letters: typeset |
Comic Story (4 pages) |
Bunyan the Cowhand |
Featuring: |
Paul Bunyan |
Credits: |
Script: ? [as Storey Weaver] | Pencils: Reed Crandall | Inks: John Cassone |
Genre: |
Adventure |
Characters: |
Paul Bunyan Babe |
Comic Story (1 page) |
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Featuring: |
Miss Winky |
Credits: |
Script: Arthur Beeman | Pencils: Arthur Beeman | Inks: Arthur Beeman |
Genre: |
Humor |
Characters: |
Miss Winky |
Comic Story (6 pages) |
Captured by Killer Ernst |
Featuring: |
Merlin the Magician |
Synopsis: |
Jock is commissioned to fly General Foxx over Southeastern Asia, but they are brought down in New Guinea by Killer Ernst, an Austrian fifth columnist. Merlin's magical mastery, first with a cannon then a crocodile, makes quick work of him, however. |
Credits: |
Script: Fred Guardineer [as Lance Blackwood] (signed) | Pencils: Fred Guardineer [as Lance Blackwood] (signed) | Inks: Fred Guardineer [as Lance Blackwood] (signed) |
Genre: |
Superhero |
Characters: |
Merlin The Magician [Jock Kellog] General Sir Reginald Foxx (introduction) Killer Ernst (villain, Introduction, Death) |
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