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National Comics #26

Quality Comics · Series began 1940 · November 1942

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Dates

Cover date: November 1942
On sale: September 9, 1942
Pages: 68

Editions and covers

Original edition
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Creators

pencils: Reed Crandall, Iger Shop, Jack Cole, Klaus Nordling, Bernard Klein, Charles Nicholas, Paul Gustavson, Witmer Williams, Fred Guardineer, Gill Fox, Arthur Beeman, Al McWilliamsinks: Reed Crandall, Iger Shop, Jack Cole, Klaus Nordling, Bernard Klein, Charles Nicholas, Paul Gustavson, Witmer Williams, Fred Guardineer, Gill Fox, Arthur Beeman, Al McWilliamsscript: Ted Udall, Paul Gustavson, Fred Guardineer, Gill Fox, Jerry Maxwell, Arthur Beemanletters: Paul Gustavson

Stories

Untitled · 6 pages
The new Nazi-backed leader of the Vichy French government is challenged by the Unknown, and promptly arrests a hundred of the French people in order to put them to death. The Unknown breaks into the prison complex and frees the Frenchmen, and attends to the Nazi swine as well.
To the Circus! · 5 pages
Zimbamboo · 6 pages
When a volcano in the jungles of South America near Zimbamboo begins to smoke, the natives begin to do the Dance of Death, then, traditionally, sacrifice their king. But Quicksilver, realizing there is an Army detachment within ten miles of the village, heads south, just in case the villagers decide to attack the base and sacrifice U.S. soldiers to boot!
The U-Boat · 6 pages
An enemy u-boat surfaces along the Atlantic Coast, terrorizing a seacoast town with the threat of hanging ten citizens for each German soldier killed. Merlin decides to intervene in his own way.
The Desert Always Wins · 2 pages

Reprinted in

Men of Mystery Comics (1999), Golden-Age Greats Spotlight (2003)