Banner Comics #3

(September 1941)

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Captain Courageous, Mighty Warrior!!! / comic story / 16 pages (report information)

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Jim Mooney ?

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Jim Mooney ?

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Mighty warrior!!! Master of the miraculous defender of liberty...

Genre

superhero

Characters

Captain Courageous (introduction); The Nazis (villains)

Synopsis

Captain Courageous, innocently enough, stops 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.

Art credits by Craig Delich.

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

Script

Otto Binder

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The dictator's shadow is falling across civilization...

Genre

superhero

Characters

The Lone Warrior [Stan Carter] (introduction); Dicky [Richard Carter] (Stan's younger brother, introduction); The Dictator's Shadow (villain, introduction); enemy saboteurs [Kampf; two others unnamed] (villains, introduction for all)

Synopsis

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

Keywords

Camp Trenton; Wonder Ship

Indexer Notes

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....all of which parallel Captain America.

Binder is credited as a writer of this story by Bails's Who's Who.

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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

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Kay McKay, Air Hostess / comic story / 9 pages (report information)

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Art Saaf ?

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Art Saaf ?

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Kay McKay, an air hostess on 'World Wide Airlines'...

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: 5)

comic story / 1 page (report information)

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Warren Kremer (signed as W Kremer)

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Warren Kremer (signed as W Kremer)

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Genre

non-fiction; aviation; biography

Synopsis

Capsule biography of Captain Jack Knight.

Mastermind Payoff (Table of Contents: 6)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Ralph Powers (credited)

Letters

typeset

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

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George Wilson (signed)

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George Wilson (signed)

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'Lo Pat!

Genre

children

Characters

Paul Revere, Jr. (introduction); Paul Revere, Sr. (introduction); Patrick Henry (introduction); Betsy Ross (introduction); The Thorns (villains, introduction for all)

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