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Synopsis
Andel Cobra tries to organize American dust bowl refugees into his own version of Hitler's Brown Shirts, called the Purple Shirts. The Purple Shirts manage to kidnap President Roosevelt, and later Uncle Sam. But Sam's rhetoric stirred some of the recruits, inciting them to rebel against the Purple Shirts. Unfortunately, these "terrorists" killed the father of young Buddy Smith, whom Uncle Sam adopted as his sidekick.
Notes
On sale date from the fanzine, Fantasy News, dated April 14, 1940 (on page 3). The comic was scheduled for release during the week of April 14-20, 1940. Information shared by Bart Bush through the Comics History Exchange page on Facebook (4 October 2016).
Reprinted in
- Jerry Iger's National Comics #1
- Take That, Adolf!: The Fighting Comic Books of the Second World War #[nn]
- Gwandanaland Comics #895
- Gwandanaland Comics #2005
- Collection Fantôme #1
Credits
- Script
- Will Eisner, Dave Berg, Toni Blum, Bob Reynolds, Tony Rawlins, Klaus Nordling, Herman Bolstein, Bill Newcombe
- Pencils
- Lou Fine, Witmer Williams, Chuck Mazoujian, George Tuska, John Celardo, Henry Kiefer, Klaus Nordling, Bill Newcombe, Charles Nicholas
- Inks
- Lou Fine, Will Eisner, Witmer Williams, Chuck Mazoujian, George Tuska, John Celardo, Henry Kiefer, Klaus Nordling, Bill Newcombe, Charles Nicholas
- Editor
- Will Eisner
- Finishes
- Dave Berg
- Layouts
- Will Eisner
- See notes
- Dan Zolnerowich, Lance Blackwood
Characters
- Buddy
- Uncle Sam
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Prop Powers
- Sally O'Neil
- Danny "Kid" Dixon
- Merlin the Magician
- Jock Kellog
- Wonder Boy
- Cyclone
- Pen Miller
- Paul Bunyan
- Babe
- Sunshine Jones
- Teddy
- Officer Pat Malone
- Suzy
- Porky
- Spunky
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