Original Vintage Art & Text
Cover art by Lou Fine for National Comics #9, March 1941. Quality Comics.
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SCENE: A zillion kids (several carrying American flags) are in a field Uncle Sam. Together they are fighting a terrorist or criminal gang. Each of the gang members are wearing leather jackets with a skull and cross bones insignia on the back.
CAPTION: National Comics #9 10 cents.
CAPTION: A Typical Flag Day in Comic Books!
CAPTION: Patriotism: It’s not for wimps!
1941 Art: Lou Fine Flag Pole Polisher: John Lustig
National Comics #9 CoverModified_NoStars
CAPTION: National Comics #9 10 cents.
CAPTION: A Typical Flag Day in Comic Books!
CAPTION: Patriotism: It’s not for wimps!
1941 Art: Lou Fine Flag Pole Polisher: John Lustig
National Comics #9 CoverModified_NoStars
Interesting to see that something like this was being published 9 months BEFORE Pearl Harbor (and, given the age, that one of the heroes is apparently a BLACK kid).
9 months before Pearl Harbor… France had fallen months before. Right about then they started the lend lease program since Britain was out of cash to purchase weapons.
By then, I’d bet we’d have to start punching fascists but no one would take the other side of that bet.