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UNCLE SAM QUARTERLY #2

Cover Date: Winter 1941-2
Cover Price: $.10
Publication Date: 1941-12-17

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Cover Credits:


Story: "Raiders of the Deep" (14 Pages)

Credits:

ArtLou Fine
EditingEd Cronin

Feature Character(s):

Uncle Sam

Supporting Character(s):

Buddy Smith (invents and builds a "Bumble boat")

Villain(s):

Unnamed inventor (first appearance; sells his plans for submersible battleships to a foreign power; dies)
Unnamed foreign power (converts its battleships into submersibles; all destoryed)

Location(s):

Atlantic Ocean
Everytown


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Second Story: "War in Kid-Land" (14 Pages)

Credits:

StoryWill Eisner
ArtDave Berg
EditingEd Cronin

Feature Character(s):

Uncle Sam

Supporting Character(s):

Buddy Smith

Villain(s):

Witch Queen (first appearance; ruler of Evil-Land; tries to destroy Kid-Land; dies)
The Monster (first appearance; a giant humanoid dragon; dies)

Other Character(s):

President Franklin Roosevelt

Location(s):

Everytown
Kid-Land (first appearance; a city of unaging children; see Comments)

Comment(s):

Kid-Land is probably Free Country.


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Fifth Story: "The Villains' Revolt" (4 Pages)
"Who Swiped My Comic Book?"

Credits:

ArtDave Berg
EditingEd Cronin

Feature Character(s):

Uncle Sam

Supporting Character(s):

Buddy Smith

Villain(s):

The Villain (first appearance; leads the villains of Quality Comics out on strike)

Guest Appearance(s):

Hercules (Joe Hercules)
Neon (Tom Corbett)
Quicksilver (Max Crandall)
Ray (Happy Terrill)
Black Condor (Thomas Wright)

Comment(s):

This story is told as an illustrated poem and is not in continuity.


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Third Story: "The Fiddler of Death" (10 Pages)

Credits:

StoryWill Eisner
PencilsDave Berg
EditingEd Cronin

Feature Character(s):

Uncle Sam

Supporting Character(s):

Buddy Smith

Villain(s):

Malvolo (first appearance; a violinist whose hands are transplanted with the hands of a strangling serial killer; dies)
Apes and snakes (first appearance for all; do Malvolo's bidding when he plays his violin; all die)


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Fourth Story: "Margo the Magician" (8 Pages)

Credits:

StoryEmanuel Demby
EditingEd Cronin

Feature Character(s):

Margo the Magician (Margo Webster; learns the secrets of magic from her dying magician father and saves her brother and others from the Japanese; last appearance)

Villain(s):

Japanese Army

Other Character(s):

The Great Presto (Webster; first appearance; a magician who whispers his secrets to his abilities to his daughter as he lays dying)
Jimmy Webster (first appearance; Margo's young brother)

Location(s):

China

Comment(s):

This is the only Margo the Magician story.


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Fifth Story: "Uncle Sam Tells Buddy Who He Is and How He Came to Be" (2 Pages)

Credits:

Story? (as Buddy Smith)
LetteringTypeset
EditingEd Cronin

Feature Character(s):

Uncle Sam

Supporting Character(s):

Buddy Smith

Comment(s):

This is a text story patterned after a newspaper story written by Buddy.


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Sixth Story: "The Return of King Killer" (12 Pages)

Credits:

StoryWill Eisner
ArtDave Berg
EditingEd Cronin

Feature Character(s):

Uncle Sam

Supporting Character(s):

Buddy Smith

Villain(s):

King Killer (escapes from prison and fakes gold being found in Ghost City; buried in a mine shaft)

Location(s):

Washington, DC
Ghost City (first appearance)


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