Digital Comic Museum - National Comics 016


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National_Comics_#016 [Oct'41]-68pg-c2c -Rolster
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3-January-2007 8:01 am	\|
Username:	gpaf
Comment:	The Lou Fine "Uncle Sam" is great! This delicate linework is tough to reproduce but these scans are fine.
13-February-2007 5:29 pm	\|
Username:	comicscommando
Comment:	They should all look like this--great, crisp scans with good color!!

Issue: #16
Published: October 1941, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing:
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. 4.

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Uncle Sam Quicksilver [Max] (inset) Kid Patrol (inset) Sally O'Neil (inset)

Comic Story (9 pages)	The Hollywood Invasion Plot
Synopsis:	Spies discover fertile ground for an attack on a movie set. The director is so successful and powerful that he was able to procure the use of U.S. Navy ships. The movie is meant to stir American patriotism, but the set is infiltrated by fifth columnists. Buddy, on board one of the submarines, discovers this and turns the tables on the saboteurs, while the ghost of George Washington appears to Uncle Sam to alert him of the danger. Together, Sam and Buddy defeat the spies but only after several ships have been destroyed.
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Uncle Sam Buddy Smith George Washington (as A Ghost) Emil Von Blon (Warren Brothers Movie Director) Fifth Columnists (villains)

Comic Story (1 page)	Rain of Soup
Genre:	Humor
Characters:	Cyclone Cupid

Comic Story (5 pages)	The Amateur Hour
Genre:	Adventure Humor Children
Characters:	Kid Patrol

Comic Story (6 pages)	Big Dan's Hundred Grand
Genre:	Detective-mystery
Characters:	Sally O'Neil

Comic Story (5 pages)	The Blank Check Swindle
Credits:	Script: ? [as Bob Reynolds] (signed)
Genre:	Sports
Characters:	Kid Dixon [Danny "Kid" Dixon]

Comic Story (5 pages)	Pagi's Return to the Islands
Synopsis:	Wonder Boy witnesses the performance of a South Seas native and wonders if the man is really happy in this civilization or would prefer to return home.
Credits:	Script: ? [as Jerry Maxwell] (signed) (byline)
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Wonder Boy Pagi (South Seas Performing Native)

Comic Story (6 pages)	The Soap Box Demagogue
Synopsis:	A political boss is paying crooks across America to make speeches and to stir up dissent in a scheme to become president under a new party banner and to rule as a dictator.
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Quicksilver [Max] McGinty (villain, Radical Speaker) C.J. Merton (villain, Political Boss)

Comic Story (4 pages)	The Counterfeiter's Cannon
Credits:	Script: ? [as Lowell Riggs] (signed)
Genre:	Detective-mystery
Characters:	Jack Jill

Comic Story (1 page)	Paddle-Ball Champ
Genre:	Humor
Characters:	Windy Breeze

Comic Story (5 pages)	Herr Musser's Radio Plot
Genre:	Aviation
Characters:	Prop Powers

Text Story (2 pages)	Flames of Freedom
Credits:	Letters: typeset
Genre:	Crime

Comic Story (4 pages)	The Rustling of Babe
Credits:	Script: ? [as Story Weaver] (signed)
Genre:	Fantasy
Characters:	Paul Bunyan

Comic Story (4 pages)	The Sinister Swamp Camp
Genre:	Detective-mystery
Characters:	Pen Miller

Comic Story (1 page)
Genre:	Humor
Characters:	Miss Winky

Comic Story (6 pages)	Incident in Greenland
Synopsis:	Merlin boosts the Greenland natives' campaign against Nazi thieves with a giant walrus.
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Merlin The Magician [Jock Kellog] The Nazis (villains)

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