Banner Comics #3

(September 1941)

[Mighty warrior!!!] (Table of Contents)

Captain Courageous / comic story / 16 pages (report information)

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Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Captain Courageous (first appearance)

Synopsis:

Captain Courageous starts out stopping kids from bullying a girl and it snowballs into stopping a Nazi invasion of the United States.

Indexer Notes

The Nazi army is equipped with super-weaponry that would be familiar to readers of Whiz Comics #3, right down to super-planes able to drop tanks.

["The dictator's shadow is falling across civilization..."] (Table of Contents)

Lone Warrior / comic story / 16 pages (report information)

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Genre:

superhero

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Lone Warrior [Stan Carter] (first appearance); Dicky [Richard Carter] (first appearance); Dictator's Shadow (villain, first appearance)

Synopsis:

Lone Warrior enlists in the U.S. Army, is stationed right by the boy's camp where his kid brother goes, and the two join forces to stop saboteurs at the Army base working for the Dictator's Shadow.

Indexer Notes

Wonder Ship (able to transform between a car, a plane, a tank, and a submarine) debuts. Camp Trenton debuts. There are noticable themes here - the patriotism, the Army private who is secretly a superhero, the kid sidekick, the chemistry-related origin, the murder attempts on Army generals - that parallel Captain America.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Typhoon Tyson / comic story / 9 pages (report information)

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Genre:

adventure

Characters:

"Typhoon" Tyson; First Mate Anzac

Synopsis:

Tyson Typhoon and the crew of the Sea Lion are transporting a scientist who enemy agents want to kill.

Keywords:

naval; ship captains; South Seas

Indexer Notes

last app. in OUR FLAG COMICS #1

["Kay McKay, an air hostess on 'World Wide Airlines'..."] (Table of Contents)

Kay McKay / comic story / 9 pages (report information)

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Art Saaf?

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Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Kay McKay; Ned

Synopsis:

Ned and Kay are asked by the American Consul in Mexico City to return diamonds to Brazil, but gangsters have other plans.

Indexer Notes

last app. in OUR FLAG COMICS #1. Though "only" an air stewardess, Kay can outfly her pilot, shoot a revolver, disable a plane, and stop an alligator.

American Trail Blazers (Table of Contents)

filler / 1 page (report information)

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Synopsis:

Capsule biographies of two patriotic Americans with accompanying illustrations.

Mastermind Payoff (Table of Contents)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

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Script:

Ralph Powers

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typeset

["'Lo Pat!"] (Table of Contents)

Paul Revere, Jr. / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

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George Wilson

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Genre:

children

Characters:

Paul Revere, Jr. (first appearance); Paul Revere, Sr. (first appearance); Patrick Henry (first appearance); Betsy Ross (first appearance)

Synopsis:

Paul Sr. runs an anti-isolationist newspaper called "America Awake", which draws the ire of a Fifth Column group called The Thorns. Paul Jr. and his friends, Patrick and Betsy, are members of a club with the same name and fight the Thorns.

Keywords:

boys adventure