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NATIONAL COMICS #42

Cover Date: May 1944
Cover Price: $.10
Publication Date: 1944

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Cover Credits:
Art: Jack Cole (signed)


Story: "The Barker" (11 Pages)

Credits:

StoryJoe Millard
ArtJack Cole
LetteringJack Cole
EditingGeorge Brenner

Feature Character(s):

Barker (Clarance "Carnie" Calahan; a sideshow "barker" and leader of a group of circus performers; joins up with Col. Lane's circus)

Supporting Character(s):

Major Midge (first appearance; a sideshow performer; a very tough midget)
Tiny (Tim; first appearance; a sideshow performer; strongman)
Lena (first appearance; a sideshow performer; "fat lady")
Colonel Lane (first appearance; owner of the Mammoth Circus)

Villain(s):

Professor Zell (first appearance; an unscrupulous sideshow mentalist who tries to steal Calahan's contract)

Other Character(s):

Elasto (first appearance; a "rubberman" already working with Col. Lane)

Location(s):

Big City, PA
Waynetown


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Second Story: [No Title] (7 Pages)

Credits:

ArtBill Quackenbush
EditingGeorge Brenner

Feature Character(s):

Quicksilver

Villain(s):

Big John Hammer and his gang (first appearance for all; try and get incriminating photos)


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Third Story: "Case No. 16: The Lady Wang" (7 Pages)

Credits:

StoryDon Rico
ArtDon Rico
EditingGeorge Brenner

Feature Character(s):

G-2

Villain(s):

Japanese Army (first appearance for all; many, if not all die)

Other Character(s):

Lady Wang (first appearance; a female Chinese freedom fighter)

Location(s):

China


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Fourth Story: "It's Your Move, Uncle Sam!" (6 Pages)

Credits:

StoryHarry Stein
ArtArt Seymour
EditingGeorge Brenner

Feature Character(s):

Uncle Sam

Supporting Character(s):

Buddy Smith

Villain(s):

Unnamed Nazi spies (first appearance for all; Major John Law named)

Other Character(s):

Japanese Army (first appearance for all)

Location(s):

Marusu, Indonesia


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Fifth Story: [No Title] (6 Pages)

Credits:

StoryVernon Henkel
ArtVernon Henkel
EditingGeorge Brenner

Feature Character(s):

Chic Carter

Villain(s):

Derby (first appearance; assistant to an arctic explorer who he kills to recover a radium mine)


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