Nazi-Punchers NATIONAL COMICS "The Return of Your Uncle Sam!"

When People Used to Say "Don't Mess with Uncle Sam!"...

...you damn well listened to them!
And here's why...

Appearing almost a year before Captain America punched out Hitler on the cover of Timely's Captain America Comics #1 (1941)

...but a few months after MLJ's The Shield debuted in Pep Comics #1 (1940)...

...Uncle Sam premiered (as you've just seen) in Quality's National Comics #1 (1940), written, laid out and inked by Will (The Spirit) Eisner and penciled by Dave Berg.

America wouldn't enter World War II for almost a year and a half, so the character couldn't take on the Germans or Japanese directly at this point.
Instead he battled American neo-Nazis inspired by Adolf Hitler!
But, of course, all that would change after December 7, 1941!

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Nazi-Punchers MILITARY COMICS "The Coming of...Blackhawk!"

Before He Became the Ultimate Russkie-Smasher...

...he was the premier Nazi-Puncher!
Now witness his first bombshell appearance in Quality's Military Comics #1 (1941)

Written by Will (The Spirit) Eisner & Bob Powell and illustrated by Chuck Cuidera, the initial appearance of Blackhawk and his crew is slightly-different from all later stories!

• No trademark Grumman XF5F Skyrockets...which will premiere in the next issue! The planes we do see are rather...generic!
• The uniforms are different. Blackhawk doesn't have his distinctive hawk-head insignia on his chest, and all the Blackhawk uniforms are almost solid black, rather than blue.
• The Blackhawks themselves are not yet identified, and the only one who speaks has a British accent!

But all-in-all, a well thought-out first story, setting up the basis for the ongoing series!
We'll be rotating Blackhawk's Russkie-Smashing tales with his earlier Nazi-Punching adventures, so watch for them!

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Nazi-Punchers SUPER-AMERICAN "Hordes of the Secret Dictator"

Those Who Stand up to Nazis are Not Just True Americans...

...They Are, Like This Man, Super-Americans!

Note that since this premiere appearance of this costumed crusader in Fiction House's Fight Comics #15 (1941) pre-dates America's entry into World War II, the obvious Nazis and their leader are not identified as such.
After December 7th, 1941, every comics publisher showed the swastika and identified Adolf and his buddies as Nazis!

With his rather unique back-story (being a super--powered American from the future come to help us in the present, kool costume and action-packed artwork by Don Zolerowich, you'd think the Super-American strip would last, at least, to the end of the war!
In fact, it ended after only four chapters, in mid-1942, just as the war effort got into high gear!

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