Digital Comic Museum - National Comics 023


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Issue: #23
Published: June 1942, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing: Ed Cronin
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, 1942, New Series, Vol. 37, No. 4.

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)
Featuring:	Uncle Sam
Credits:	Pencils: Lou Fine ? \| Inks: Lou Fine ?
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Uncle Sam Buddy Smith Quicksilver [Max] (inset) Sally O'Neil (inset) Destroyer 171 (inset) The Japanese

Comic Story (9 pages)
Featuring:	Uncle Sam
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.
Credits:	Script: ? [as William E. Eisner] (signed) \| Pencils: ? [as William E. Eisner] (signed) \| Inks: ? [as William E. Eisner] (signed)
Genre:	Adventure War
Characters:	Uncle Sam Buddy Smith Cadaver (villain, Introduction, Death) Koba (villain, Cadaver's Aide)

Comic Story (6 pages)
Featuring:	Sally O'Neil, Policewoman
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.
Credits:	Script: ? [as Frank Kearns] (signed) \| Pencils: Al Bryant \| Inks: Al Bryant
Genre:	Detective-mystery
Characters:	Sally O'Neil School Kids [Bobby Margaret Tom] School Janitor Murphy (Policeman) Nazi Spies [Madam Bloff Otto Others Unnamed] (villains)

Comic Story (1 page)
Featuring:	Windy Breeze
Credits:	Script: Jack Cole [as Ralph Johns] (signed) \| Pencils: Jack Cole [as Ralph Johns] (signed) \| Inks: Jack Cole [as Ralph Johns] (signed)
Genre:	Humor
Characters:	Windy Breeze

Comic Story (5 pages)
Featuring:	Kid Dixon
Credits:	Script: ? [as Bob Reynolds] (signed) \| Pencils: Klaus Nordling \| Inks: Klaus Nordling
Genre:	Sports
Characters:	Kid Dixon [Danny Dixon]

Comic Story (5 pages)
Featuring:	Prop Powers
Credits:	Script: ? [as Lynn Bird] (signed) \| Pencils: Witmer Williams ? \| Inks: Witmer Williams ?
Genre:	Aviation
Characters:	Prop Powers

Comic Story (5 pages)	Introducing the Unknown
Featuring:	The Unknown
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.
Credits:	Script: Ted Udall (signed) \| Pencils: Bernard Klein (signed) \| Inks: Bernard Klein (signed)
Genre:	War
Characters:	The Unknown (introduction) Herr Baboon (villain, Death)

Comic Story (6 pages)
Featuring:	Quicksilver, the Laughing Robin Hood
Synopsis:	Quicksilver gets on the trail of those responsible for blowing up five defense plants.
Credits:	Script: Paul Gustavson [as Nick Cardy] (signed) \| Pencils: Paul Gustavson [as Nick Cardy] (signed) \| Inks: Paul Gustavson [as Nick Cardy] (signed) \| Letters: Paul Gustavson
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Quicksilver [Max] Miss Anderson (secretary In The Office Of Public Management) Group Of Nazi Spies [Henricks Joe Kurtz Kaufman] (villains)

Comic Story (1 page)
Featuring:	Salty Waters
Credits:	Pencils: John Devlin ? \| Inks: John Devlin ?
Genre:	Humor
Characters:	Salty Waters

Comic Story (5 pages)	School's Out
Featuring:	Kid Patrol
Credits:	Script: Toni Blum ? [as Dan Wilson] \| Pencils: Charles Nicholas \| Inks: Charles Nicholas
Genre:	Adventure Humor Children
Characters:	Kid Patrol

Comic Story (6 pages)
Featuring:	Merlin the Magician
Synopsis:	Merlin uses the risen ghostly bodies of ancient pirates to assist an out-manned force of U.S. Marines against the Japanese.
Credits:	Script: Fred Guardineer [as Lance Blackwood] (signed) \| Pencils: Fred Guardineer (signed) \| Inks: Fred Guardineer (signed) \| Letters: Fred Guardineer ?
Genre:	Fantasy War
Characters:	Merlin The Magician [Jock Kellog] Sergeant Mulligan The Japanese (villains, Some Die)

Text Story (2 pages)	The Flying Gems
Credits:	Pencils: Gill Fox (signed) \| Inks: Gill Fox (signed) \| Letters: typeset
Genre:	Adventure

Comic Story (1 page)
Featuring:	Cyclone Cupid
Credits:	Pencils: Gill Fox \| Inks: Gill Fox
Genre:	Humor
Characters:	Cyclone Cupid

Comic Story (5 pages)
Featuring:	Wonder Boy
Synopsis:	Bobby 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.
Credits:	Script: Toni Blum [as Jerry Maxwell (byline)] \| Pencils: Al Bryant \| Inks: Al Bryant
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Wonder Boy [Bobby Barnes] Sally (boat Building Company's Owner) Nazi Spies [Karl Rest Unnamed] (villains, All Die)

Comic Story (1 page)
Featuring:	Miss Winky
Credits:	Script: Arthur Beeman ? \| Pencils: Arthur Beeman \| Inks: Arthur Beeman \| Letters: Arthur Beeman ?
Genre:	Humor
Characters:	Miss Winky

Comic Story (6 pages)	Aboard the Destroyer U.S.S. Pawnee
Featuring:	Destroyer 171
Credits:	Pencils: Al McWilliams \| Inks: Al McWilliams
Genre:	War
Characters:	Destroyer 171

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