Issue: #1
Published: Autumn 1941, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing: Ed Cronin; Everett M. Arnold [as E. M. Arnold] (general manager)
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age US Paper Stock: Binding: Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Notes: Copyright 1941 by Comic Magazines, Inc.
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. 4.
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| Comic Story (14 pages) |
Forged Faces |
| Featuring: |
Uncle Sam |
| Synopsis: |
When Senator Bristol forces a "Youth Taining Bill" through Congress, children across the nation were herded into near slavery. Bristol then kidnapped the President and intended to assassinate his detractors in order to pass other Fascist laws. In time, they recruited Buddy and Uncle Sam was powerless to save him. Meantime, Bristol hired a sculptor to mold faces and create a duplicate of Uncle Sam and others, as he cried for war. But the nation was not ready, Uncle Sam freed himself, and rallied the country and military to end Bristol's fevered plans. |
| Credits: |
Script: Will Eisner ? | Pencils: Will Eisner (page 1... Splash page); Dan Zolnerowich (pages 2-14) | Inks: Lou Fine (page 1... Splash page); ? (pages 2-14) |
| Genre: |
Superhero |
| Characters: |
Uncle Sam Buddy Smith Curwen (sculptor, Introduction) Franklin Delano Roosevelt (face Unseen) Senator Mason (introduction) Senator Northrup Bristol (villain, Introduction) |
| Comic Story (6 pages) |
Uncle Sam a Fake |
| Featuring: |
Uncle Sam |
| Credits: |
Script: Will Eisner | Pencils: Dan Zolnerowich | Inks: Lou Fine (page 1... Splash page); ? (map) | Letters: ?; typeset (2 pages) |
| Genre: |
Superhero |
| Characters: |
Uncle Sam Buddy Smith |
| Comic Story (16 pages) |
The Steel Helmets |
| Featuring: |
Uncle Sam |
| Synopsis: |
As steel-helmeted invaders took over America, Uncle Sam, because people had stopped cheering for him and he lost his strength, fell ill and disappeared completely, fnding himself in another world where he was told the only way back was to fight through "swamps of ignorance and of jungles of lies." After completing these trials, Sam returns to America and its citizens embraced him again, which gave him the strength to overhtow their captors. |
| Credits: |
Script: Will Eisner | Pencils: Will Eisner (page 1... Splash page); Dan Zolnerowich (pages 2-16) | Inks: Lou Fine (page 1... Splash page); ? (pages 2-16) |
| Genre: |
Superhero |
| Characters: |
Uncle Sam Buddy Smith Senator Northrup Bristol (villain, Death) The Steel Helmets (villains) |
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