Price: 0.10 USD
Pages: 68
On-sale Date: 1941-12-17
Editing: Ed Cronin (editor)
Cover Thumbnail for Uncle Sam Quarterly (Quality Comics, 1941 series) #2 Edit Cover
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The Revolt of the Villains!
(Table of Contents)

Uncle Sam / cover / 1 page

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?
  • Genre:superhero
Characters:
Uncle Sam; Buddy Smith?; King Killer (inset); Malvolo (inset); The Villain (inset)

Issue Data

Indexer Notes

The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1941, New Series, Vol. 36, No. 4.

Raiders of the Deep
(Table of Contents: 1)

Uncle Sam / comic story / 14 pages

Script:
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?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:superhero
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Born in the warped mind of a mad inventor, a mighty fleet of...
Characters:
Uncle Sam; Buddy Smith; an un-named inventor (villain, introduction, death); the Nazis (villains)

War in Kid-Land
(Table of Contents: 2)

Uncle Sam / comic story / 14 pages

Script:
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?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:superhero
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Ya-a-a-a-a-a-ahh
Characters:
Uncle Sam; Buddy Smith; President Franklin D Roosevelt; the inhabitants of Kidland (introduction for all); The Witch Queen (villain, introduction, death), the Monster (villain, a dragon, introduction, death)
Synopsis:
Sam and Buddy enter Kidland, an underground fantasy world where the children never grew old. The duo face the wicked Witch Queen, from whom Sam saves the residents of Kidland.

The Villains' Revolt, or, Who Swiped My Comic Book?
(Table of Contents: 3)

Uncle Sam / comic story / 4 pages

Script:
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?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:superhero
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Tsk. tsk.. tsk!
Characters:
Uncle Sam; Buddy Smith; Hercules [Joe Hercules]; Neon [Tom Corbet]; Quicksilver [Max]; The Ray [Happy Terrill]; The Black Condor [Richard Grey, Jr. aka Senator Thomas Wright]; The Villain (villain, introduction)
Synopsis:
Comic book villains revolt and leap from the page to enslave the comics' creators. Sam rights things when he by convincing the villains to their role "cause the kids must have their heroes, and the heroes must have foes, so the villains should return to work, before the trouble grows!"

Indexer Notes

Story all in verse. Only Quality hero team-up ever?

The Fiddler of Death
(Table of Contents: 4)

Uncle Sam / comic story / 10 pages

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?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:superhero
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:A master fiend strings his violin and takes up his bow to spell the doom of a...
Characters:
Uncle Sam; Buddy Smith; Malvolo (villain, introduction, death)
Synopsis:
Sam faces the Fiddler of death, whose violin sounds was able to control animals.

Indexer Notes

The splash page of this story features the sheet music for the Fiddler's song.

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 5)

Margo the Magician / comic story / 8 pages

Script:
Pencils:
? [as Bill Bydem] (signed)
Inks:
? [as Bill Bydem] (signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:superhero
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:One fine day, Margo -- beautiful only daughter of a travelling conjurer, discovers she has tremendous magic power at her fingertips...
Characters:
Margo the Magician [Margo Webster] (introduction, origin); The Great Presto (introduction, death); Jimmy Webster (introduction); Chick Benson (introduction); Hi; Lo; the Japanese (villains)
Synopsis:
The Webster family finds themselves aiding two Chinese soldiers who were fleeing from the occupying Japanese. When gunfire breaks out, Presto calls upon his supernatural abilities and diverts bullets meant for his kids into himself, and he dies. As he dies, he whispers the secret of his powers to Margo, one of which, hypnotism, is used to help free her brother and reporter Chick Benson from Japanese captivity.
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Indexer Notes

Only appearance.

Feature probably created by Will Eisner.

Bill Bydem is a by-line and not the name of a real person according to the Who's Who. However, the writer now listed above, added by Craig Delich 2013-6-19, is suggested by the Who's Who. Also, re-arrange "Byden" and you get "Demby", whom Busy Arnold said was on his staff.

The Who's Who credits Bill Bossert as the artist, but the art is NOT comparable to Bossert's other features.

Uncle Sam Tells Buddy Who He Is and How He Came To Be
(Table of Contents: 6)

Uncle Sam / text story / 1.67 pages

Script:
?
Letters:
typeset
  • Genre:superhero
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Hya fellows and girls.
Characters:
Uncle Sam (origin revealed); Buddy Smith

Indexer Notes

The second text page is shared with the "Statement of the Ownership, Management, Circulation, Etc."

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 7)

statement of ownership / 0.33 page

Letters:
typeset

Indexer Notes

Published by Comic Magazines Inc
322 Main St Stamford, Ct
Editor: Ed Cronin; Bus Manager Everett M. Arnold
Owners: Everett M Arnold, Claire C. Arnold, 198 Shore Rd Old Greenwich, CT
Henry P Martin Jr. 8 Foster Dr Des Moines, Ia
Printed at Buffalo, NY

The Return of King Killer
(Table of Contents: 8)

Uncle Sam / comic story / 12 pages

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?
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?
  • Genre:superhero
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Horror stalks abroad--and behind bolted barriers Uncle Sam and King Killer, mightiest criminal in...
Characters:
Uncle Sam; Buddy Smith; King Killer (villain)
Synopsis:
King Killer returns for a grudge match with Sam, who is forced to bury the Killer in a collapsed mine shaft.
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Table of Contents ToC
    Table of Contents
  1. The Revolt of the Villains!
    Uncle Sam
  2. Raiders of the Deep
    Uncle Sam
  3. War in Kid-Land
    Uncle Sam
  4. The Villains' Revolt, or, Who Swiped My Comic Book?
    Uncle Sam
  5. The Fiddler of Death
    Uncle Sam
  6. ["One fine day, Margo -- beautiful only daughter of a travelling conjurer, discovers she has tremendous magic power at her fingertips..."]
    Margo the Magician
  7. Uncle Sam Tells Buddy Who He Is and How He Came To Be
    Uncle Sam
  8. [no title indexed]
  9. The Return of King Killer
    Uncle Sam
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