Military Comics
#18
(April 1943)
Quality Comics,
1941 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1943-02-10
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Comic Magazines Inc.
- Brand
-
Quality Comic Group
- Editing
- John Beardsley
Issue Notes
On sale date from a promo in Smash Comics #41.
The on-sale date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1943, New Series, Vol. 38, No. 2 is listed as Feb. 12, 1943.
The on-sale date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1943, New Series, Vol. 38, No. 2 is listed as Feb. 12, 1943.
[The Thunderer]
Blackhawk / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- adventure; war; aviation; military; science fiction; superhero
- Characters
- Blackhawk; Olaf; Hendrickson; Stanislaus; Chop-Chop; Chuck; Andre; The Lama; Sailor Danny
The Thunderer
Blackhawk / comic story / 15 pages
- Genre
- adventure; war; aviation; military; science fiction; superhero
- Characters
- Blackhawks [Blackhawk; Andre; Chuck; Hendrickson (incorrectly spelled Hendrikson); Olaf; Stanislaus; Chop-Chop]; Chen Yu; Ashley-Cripp (British agent, death); unnamed British officer; The Lama; unnamed Tibetans; Japanese soliders (villains, some die)
- Synopsis
- A dying British agent tells the Blackhawks that whoever finds The Thunderer in the Gura Mountain Lamassary in Tibet will control the natives. They must beat the Japanese there and stop the revolt.
[no title indexed]
Johnny Doughboy / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The natives don't seem to trust us, so I want to talk with them! Round me up some stragglers!
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Johnny Doughboy
- Synopsis
- Johnny is sent to gather up some stragglers for the sergeant to talk to.
World's Most Hated Heel
Private Dogtag / comic story / 9 pages
- Script
- Bart Tumey (signed)
- Pencils
- Bart Tumey (signed)
- Inks
- Bart Tumey (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Private Dogtag; Cecil; Adolf Hitler (villain); Hawkins
- Synopsis
- Cecil and Dogtag go to Germany to capture Hitler.
The Ghost of the Maginot Line!
The Sniper / comic story / 10 pages
- Script
- Vern Henkel (signed)
- Pencils
- Vern Henkel (signed)
- Inks
- Vern Henkel (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- adventure; war
- Characters
- The Sniper; Major Von Steuffin; General Brecht; Adolf Hitler (villain); The Ghost (first appearance; death)
- Synopsis
- The Sniper impersonates a dead Nazi to infiltrate a German fortress on the Maginot Line.
[The Bomb Balls of Dr. Murk]
Shot and Shell / comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Klaus Nordling (signed as K. Nordling)
- Pencils
- Klaus Nordling (signed as K. Nordling)
- Inks
- Klaus Nordling (signed as K. Nordling)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- aviation; adventure; military
- Characters
- Colonel Sam Shot; Slim Shell; Dr. Murk (first appearance; villain; death); Abd-Ul-Skram
- Synopsis
- Shot and Shell fly a man to a meeting with an Arab chief.
[Battle With a U-Boat]
Atlantic Patrol / comic story / 2 pages
- Genre
- war
- Synopsis
- A PT boat with one torpedo is attacked by a U-Boat.
- Keywords
- navy
U.S. Sub Sinks 7 Jap Warships
Secret War News / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- non-fiction; war
- Characters
- Fred Warder
- Synopsis
- The exploits of the USS Seawolf.
Indexer Notes
True story.
The Giant of the Air
Blackhawk / text story / 2 pages
- Genre
- adventure; war
- Characters
- Blackhawk; Olaf; Andre; Chop-Chop; Henderson
- Synopsis
- Blackhawk is shot down and discovers a hidden Nazi airfield with giants.
Indexer Notes
First Blackhawk text story.
[The Sabotaged Potatoes]
Sailor Danny / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Sailor Danny; Davy Jones; Alice; Clementine; Joan Lawford
- Synopsis
- Danny has to peel potatoes, but then discovers that explosives have been planted in them.
The Trail of the Mako Shark!
P.T. Boat / comic story / 9 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- André LeBlanc (signed)
- Inks
- André LeBlanc (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- war
- Characters
- Paul Harvey; Perry Tobias
- Synopsis
- Paul and Perry go looking for a hidden Nazi submarine refueling base.
- Keywords
- navy
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[The Thunderer]
Blackhawk -
1.
["Boy! Oh, boy! Two! Two tremendous new features!"]
-
2.
The Thunderer
Blackhawk -
3.
["The natives don't seem to trust us, so I want to talk with them! Round me up some stragglers!"]
Johnny Doughboy -
4.
World's Most Hated Heel
Private Dogtag -
5.
The Ghost of the Maginot Line!
The Sniper -
6.
[The Bomb Balls of Dr. Murk]
Shot and Shell -
7.
[Battle With a U-Boat]
Atlantic Patrol -
8.
U.S. Sub Sinks 7 Jap Warships
Secret War News -
9.
The Giant of the Air
Blackhawk -
10.
[The Sabotaged Potatoes]
Sailor Danny -
11.
The Trail of the Mako Shark!
P.T. Boat -
12.
["Free with this offer 33 power telescope lens kit"]
Metro Publications -
13.
["Hurry! Hurry! Sell seeds for victory gardens"]
American Seed Company
This issue was modified by, among others
- John Censullo
- Gregory Fischer
- Del Gruber
- Katy Hayhurst
- Daniel Martinez
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Jim Van Dore
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