| UNCLE SAM | CHRONOLOGY |
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CHRONOLOGY
Uncle Sam first appeared in National Comics #1 (July 1940) [Quality].
Below is the definitive list of appearances of Uncle Sam in chronological order. Flashback sequences or story entries will be followed by a [Flashback] note. Stories that for some reason are no longer part of current continuity will have a comment saying this in a note following the entry.
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Uncle Sam Chronology
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| Secret Origins Vol. 2 #19 (October 1987): "The Coming of Uncle Sam" |
| National Comics #5 (November 1940): "The True Story of Uncle Sam--Who He Was and How He Came To Be" |
| National Comics #1 (July 1940): [The Coming of Uncle Sam] |
| National Comics #2 (August 1940): "Smashing the Enemies of Free Speech" |
| National Comics #3 (September 1940): [Yiffendi Invades the Philippines] |
| National Comics #4 (October 1940): [The Floating Islands] |
| National Comics #6 (December 1940): "Sabotage" |
| National Comics #7 (January 1941): "Uncle Sam Leads the Way" |
| National Comics #8 (February 1941): [Spy with Two Faces] |
| National Comics #9 (March 1941): [The Threat of Boss McFlague] |
| National Comics #10 (April 1941): [The Phony Heinrich Brun] |
| National Comics #11 (May 1941): [The Steelville Story] |
| National Comics #12 (June 1941): [Epidemic of Destruction] |
| National Comics #13 (July 1941): [The Mine Slaves] |
| National Comics #14 (August 1941): [The Great Darkness] |
| National Comics #15 (September 1941): [Genius of Destruction] |
| Uncle Sam Quarterly #1 (fall 1941): "Forged Faces" |
| Uncle Sam Quarterly #1/2 (fall 1941): "The King of Crime" |
| Uncle Sam Quarterly #1/3 (fall 1941): "Uncle Sam a Fake" |
| Uncle Sam Quarterly #1/4 (fall 1941): "The Man Who Sold His Country" |
| Uncle Sam Quarterly #1/5 (fall 1941): "The Mad Poet" |
| Uncle Sam Quarterly #1/6 (fall 1941): "The Steel Helmets" |
| National Comics #16 (October 1941): [The Hollywood Invasion Plot] |
| National Comics #17 (November 1941): [Peril at the Panama Canal] |
| National Comics #18 (December 1941): [The Bombing of Pearl Harbor] |
| Uncle Sam Quarterly #2 (winter 1941): "Raiders of the Deep" |
| Uncle Sam Quarterly #2/2 (winter 1941): "War in Kid-Land" |
| Uncle Sam Quarterly #2/3 (winter 1941): "The Villains' Revolt, or, Who Swiped My Comic Book?" |
| Uncle Sam Quarterly #2/4 (winter 1941): "The Fiddler of Death" |
| Uncle Sam Quarterly #2/5 (winter 1941): "Uncle Sam Tells Buddy Who He Is and How He Came To Be" |
| Uncle Sam Quarterly #2/6 (winter 1941): "The Return of King Killer" |
| National Comics #19 (January 1942): "The Black Fog Mystery" |
| National Comics #20 (February 1942): [Shake Hands with Simon Bolivar] |
| National Comics #21 (March 1942): "The Man Behind the Man Behind the Gun" |
| National Comics #22 (April 1942): [A flashlight beam stabs the darkness...] |
| National Comics #23 (June 1942): [A U.S. city near the Canadian border...] |
| All-Star Squadron #31 (March 1984): "Uncle Sam Wants You" [Flashback] |
| All-Star Squadron #32 (April 1984): "Crisis on Earth-X! The Prequel" [Flashback] |
| Secret Origins Vol. 2 #26/2 (May 1988): "The Secret Origin of Miss America" [Flashback] |
| All-Star Squadron #31 (March 1984): "Uncle Sam Wants You" |
| All-Star Squadron #32 (April 1984): "Crisis on Earth-X! The Prequel" |
| All-Star Squadron #33 (May 1984): "The Battle of Santa Barbara -- Times Two" |
| All-Star Squadron #34 (June 1984): "The Wrath of Tsunami" |
| All-Star Squadron #35 (July 1984): "That Earths May Live" |
| Uncle Sam Quarterly #3 (summer 1942): "The Ant Men" |
| Uncle Sam Quarterly #3/2 (summer 1942): "The Return of the Redskin" |
| Uncle Sam Quarterly #3/3 (summer 1942): "King Killer's Kingdom" |
| Uncle Sam Quarterly #3/4 (summer 1942): "The Coward's Courage" |
| Uncle Sam Quarterly #3/5 (summer 1942): "The Jinx" |
| National Comics #24 (August 1942): [A great concentration camp for Japanese aliens...] |
| Uncle Sam Quarterly #4 (fall 1942): "The Mongrol Man" |
| Uncle Sam Quarterly #4/2 (fall 1942): "Pootzie the Spy" |
| Uncle Sam Quarterly #4/3 (fall 1942): "Odakim the Fierce and His Little Yellow Bellies" |
| Uncle Sam Quarterly #4/4 (fall 1942): [Beauty and the Beast] |
| Uncle Sam Quarterly #4/5 (fall 1942): "The Fighting Bears and the Mechanical Penguins" |
| All-Star Squadron #50 (October 1985): "Crisis Point" [Pre-Crisis Continuity Only] |
| National Comics #25 (October 1942): [Splitting the heavens with its roar...] |
| All-Star Squadron #60 (August 1986): "The End of the Beginning!" [Post-Crisis only] |
| National Comics #26 (November 1942): [Uncle Sam again turns the tables...] |
| National Comics #27 (December 1942): [Uncle Sam Needs You!] |
| Uncle Sam Quarterly #5 (winter 1942): [The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse] |
| Uncle Sam Quarterly #5/2 (winter 1942): "Murder" |
| Uncle Sam Quarterly #5/3 (winter 1942): [Pottsy McGraw and Cloutin' Clammy] |
| Uncle Sam Quarterly #5/4 (winter 1942): "The Secret of the Wax Museum" |
| National Comics #28 (January 1943): [Lugati] |
| National Comics #29 (February 1943): [Dr. Dirge] |
| National Comics #30 (March 1943): [The Jail Bird] |
| Uncle Sam Quarterly #6 (spring 1943): [No Title] |
| Uncle Sam Quarterly #6/2 (spring 1943): [No Title] |
| Uncle Sam Quarterly #6/3 (spring 1943): [No Title] |
| Uncle Sam Quarterly #6/4 (spring 1943): [No Title] |
| National Comics #31 (April 1943): [No Title] |
| National Comics #32 (May 1943): [No Title] |
| Uncle Sam Quarterly #7 (summer 1943): "Recipe for Trouble" |
| Uncle Sam Quarterly #7/2 (summer 1943): "The Undead" |
| Uncle Sam Quarterly #7/3 (summer 1943): [Big Man or Just a Kid?] |
| Uncle Sam Quarterly #7/4 (summer 1943): "Captain Kidd" |
| National Comics #33 (July 1943): [No Title] |
| National Comics #34 (August 1943): "Big John Fales" |
| National Comics #35 (September 1943): [No Title] |
| Uncle Sam Quarterly #8 (fall 1943): [No Title] |
| Uncle Sam Quarterly #8/2 (fall 1943): [No Title] |
| Uncle Sam Quarterly #8/3 (fall 1943): [No Title] |
| Uncle Sam Quarterly #8/4 (fall 1943): [No Title] |
| National Comics #36 (October 1943): [Briefcase at the Hotel Bizum] |
| National Comics #37 (November 1943): [No Title] |
| National Comics #38 (January 1944): "Boat of the Dead" |
| National Comics #39 (February 1944): [No Title] |
| National Comics #40 (March 1944): "The Syndicate of Crime" |
| Freedom Fighters Vol. 2 #4 (February 2011): "American Nightmare: Part Four!" [Flashback] |
| Justice League of America Vol. 2 #42 (April 2010): "Team History" [Flashback] |
| JSA #42 (January 2003): "Paradox Play" |
| National Comics #41 (April 1944): [No Title] |
| National Comics #42 (May 1944): [No Title] |
| National Comics #43 (August 1944): [The Allotment Check Thieves] |
| National Comics #44 (October 1944): [The John Thorpe Murder Case] |
| National Comics #45 (December 1944): "Good Neighbors -- Yes" |
| JLA: Year One #11 (November 1998): "Stalag Earth" [Continuity Questionable] |
| JLA: Year One #12 (December 1998): "Justice for All" [Continuity Questionable] |
| Justice League of America #107 (September-October 1973): "Crisis on Earth-X" [Pre-Crisis Continuity Only] |
| Justice League of America #108 (November-December 1973): "Thirteen Against the Earth" [Pre-Crisis Continuity Only] |
| Freedom Fighters #1 (March-April 1976): "The Freedom Fighters" [Pre-Crisis Continuity Only] |
| Freedom Fighters #2 (May-June 1976): "Rampage" [Pre-Crisis Continuity Only] |
| Freedom Fighters #3 (July-August 1976): [No Title] [Pre-Crisis Continuity Only] |
| Freedom Fighters #4 (September-October 1976): "The Left Hand of Oblivion" [Pre-Crisis Continuity Only] |
| Freedom Fighters #5 (November-December 1976): "The Rise and Fall of King Samson" [Pre-Crisis Continuity Only] |
| DC Super-Stars #10 (December 1976): "The Great Super-Star Game" [Continuity Questionable] |
| Freedom Fighters #6 (January-February 1977): "Witching Hour for the Warrior Wizards" [Pre-Crisis Continuity Only] |
| Freedom Fighters #7 (March-April 1977): "The Emperor of the North Pole" [Pre-Crisis Continuity Only] |
| Freedom Fighters #8 (May-June 1977): "D-Day at Niagara" [Pre-Crisis Continuity Only] |
| Freedom Fighters #9 (July-August 1977): "Blitzkrieg at Buffalo" [Pre-Crisis Continuity Only] |
| Freedom Fighters #10 (September-October 1977): "Murder in Miniature" [Pre-Crisis Continuity Only] |
| Freedom Fighters #11 (November-December 1977): "Divided We Die?" [Pre-Crisis Continuity Only] |
| Freedom Fighters #12 (January-February 1978): "Bust-Out in the Big House" [Pre-Crisis Continuity Only] |
| Freedom Fighters #13 (March-April 1978): "The Amazing Origin / the Deadly Return / the Startling Secret of the Black Condor" [Pre-Crisis Continuity Only] |
| Freedom Fighters #14 (May-June 1978): "Sideshows of Doom" [Pre-Crisis Continuity Only] |
| Freedom Fighters #15 (July-August 1978): "Carnival of Death" [Pre-Crisis Continuity Only] |
| Cancelled Comic Cavalcade #2/11 (fall 1978): "Murder Times Seven" [Pre-Crisis Continuity Only] |
| Cancelled Comic Cavalcade #2/12 (fall 1978): "Death in Silver" [Pre-Crisis Continuity Only] |
| DC Comics Presents #62 (October 1983): "Born on the Fourth of July" [Pre-Crisis Continuity Only] |
| Crisis on Infinite Earths #5 (August 1985): "Worlds in Limbo" |
| Crisis on Infinite Earths #6 (September 1985): "3 Earths! 3 Deaths!" |
| Crisis on Infinite Earths #7 (October 1985): "Beyond the Silent Night" |
| Crisis on Infinite Earths #9 (December 1985): "War Zone" |
| Crisis on Infinite Earths #10 (January 1986): "Death at the Dawn of Time!" |
| Crisis on Infinite Earths #11 (February 1986): "Aftershock" |
| Crisis on Infinite Earths #12 (March 1986): "Final Crisis" |
| Hawk and Dove Vol. 3 #28 (October 1991): "Mad Dogs and Americans" |
| Spectre Vol. 3 #50 (February 1997): "The Haunting of America - Conclusion: Patriots" [As the Patriot] |
| Spectre Vol. 3 #62 (February 1998): "Final Rites" [As the Patriot] |
| JSA: Our Worlds at War #1 (September 2001): "The All-Stars" [As the Patriot] |
| Superman Vol. 2 #178 (March 2002): "The American Way" |
| JSA #49 (August 2003): "Princes of Darkness Part 4: Army of Darkness" |
| JSA #50 (September 2003): "Princes of Darkness Part 5: The Last Light" |
| JSA #51 (October 2003): "Princes of Darkness Coda: Justice Eternity" |
| JSA #73 (July 2005): "Black Vengeance, Part 1" |
| OMAC Project #6 (November 2005): "Loss of Signal" |
| Infinite Crisis #1 (December 2005): "DC Comics Presents Infinite Crisis" |
| Crisis Aftermath: The Battle for Blüdhaven #5 (August 2006): "The Battle for Blüdhaven, Part Five" |
| DCU: Brave New World #1/4 (August 2006): "Prelude" |
| Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters #1 (September 2006): "Freedom Fighters" |
| Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters #2 (October 2006): "Arresting America" |
| Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters #3 (November 2006): "First Strike" |
| Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters #4 (December 2006): "A Call to Arms" |
| Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters #5 (January 2007): "Freedom Denied" |
| Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters #6 (February 2007): "The Returning of Champions" |
| Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters #7 (March 2007): "Traitors and Patriots" |
| Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters #8 (April 2007): "Liberty and Justice For All" |
| Tales of the Sinestro Corps: Superman-Prime #1 (January 2008): "Tales of the Sinestro Corps: Superman-Prime: Into the Sun" |
| Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters Vol. 2 #1 (November 2007): "Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters" [Pgs 1-9] |
| Countdown #38 (October 2007 [August 8]): "All Hell!" |
| Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters Vol. 2 #1 (November 2007): "Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters" [Pgs 10-22] |
| Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters Vol. 2 #2 (December 2007): "Knighty-Knight, Stormy" |
| Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters Vol. 2 #3 (January 2008): "The Kids are Not All Right" |
| Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters Vol. 2 #4 (February 2008): "Life In Miniature" |
| Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters Vol. 2 #5 (March 2008): "Be Careful What You Wish For" |
| Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters Vol. 2 #6 (April 2008): "Into the Unknown" |
| Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters Vol. 2 #7 (May 2008): "The Universal" |
| Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters Vol. 2 #8 (June 2008): "Let Freedom Ring" |
| El Diablo Vol. 3 #4 (February 2009): "El Diablo Chapter Four" |
| El Diablo Vol. 3 #5 (March 2009): "El Diablo Chapter Five" |
| El Diablo Vol. 3 #6 (April 2009): "El Diablo Chapter Six" |
| Blackest Night #1 (September 2009): "Blackest Night" |
| Blackest Night #8 (May 2010): "Blackest Night" |
| Freedom Fighters Vol. 2 #1 (November 2010): "American Nightmare Part One" |
| Freedom Fighters Vol. 2 #3 (January 2011): "American Nightmare: Part Three!" [Deceased] |
| Freedom Fighters Vol. 2 #7 (May 2011): "American Nightmare: Part Seven!" |
| Freedom Fighters Vol. 2 #8 (June 2011): "American Nightmare: Part Eight!" |