CATALOG RECORD

Uncle Sam Quarterly #1

Quality Comics · Series began 1941 · Autumn 1941

Dates

pencils: Will Eisner, Dan Zolnerowich, Dave Berginks: Lou Fine, Dave Bergscript: Will Eisner

Forged Faces · 14 pages
When Senator Bristol forces a "Youth Taining Bill" through Congress, children across the nation were herded into near slavery. Bristol then kidnapped the President and intended to assassinate his detractors in order to pass other Fascist laws. In time, they recruited Buddy and Uncle Sam was powerless to save him. Meantime, Bristol hired a sculptor to mold faces and create a duplicate of Uncle Sam and others, as he cried for war. But the nation was not ready, Uncle Sam freed himself, and rallied the country and military to end Bristol's fevered plans.
The King of Crime · 14 pages
Doctors Link and Blink bring King Killer back to life.....a man nigh unstoppable, with fangs and fearsome strength. In a protracted battle with Uncle Sam, Killer was finally brought down.
Uncle Sam a Fake · 6 pages
The Man Who Sold His Country · 10 pages
The Mad Poet, or, Uncle Sam Battles Inky Pinky Omblagoo Folder Dobble Bottlepoo · 4 pages
The Steel Helmets · 16 pages
As steel-helmeted invaders took over America, Uncle Sam, because people had stopped cheering for him and he lost his strength, fell ill and disappeared completely, fnding himself in another world where he was told the only way back was to fight through "swamps of ignorance and of jungles of lies." After completing these trials, Sam returns to America and its citizens embraced him again, which gave him the strength to overhtow their captors.

The Art of Will Eisner (1982)