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Issue Details

Issue #6
Published December 1942
Frequency quarterly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing Stan Lee (editor, art director)
Notes U. S. A. COMICS is published quarterly at Meriden, Conn., by U.S.A. Comic Magazine Corp. Entered as second class matter May 2, 1941 at the post office at Meriden, Conn., under the Act of March 3, 1879. Contents copyright 1942 by U.S.A. Comic Magazine Corp. 330 W. 42nd St., New York, N. Y., Martin Goodman, Pres. Vol. 1, No. 6, December, 1942 issue. Yearly subscription $.40 in the U.S.A. No similarity between any of the names, characters, persons and/or institutions appearing in this magazine with those of any living or dead person or institution is intended, and that any such similarity which may exist is purely coincidental. Printed in the U.S.A.

Cover Details

Genre superhero
Pencils Alex Schomburg
Inks Alex Schomburg

1 page credits "Contents page"

Notes Inside front cover, includes drawings of Captain America and Bucky and an ad for the other Timely series. Lists Martin Goodman as Publisher and Stan Lee as Editor and Art Director.

15 page Captain America story "The Ghost's Gaze of Death"

Characters V: Medusa (I, D; Prof. Anton Harvey); I: Perseus and Medusa (in flashback)
Genre superhero
Pencils Syd Shores?
Inks Syd Shores?

8 page Terror Squad story "Origin of the Terror Squad"

Characters I & O: Terror Squad (Chuck Wilson, Stanisofski, and Twimbly)
Pencils Mike Sekowsky?
Inks Charles Nicholas?

7 page Destroyer story "The Den of Horror"

Characters V: Capt. Von Nieusance (I), Brander (I)
Genre superhero
Pencils Mike Sekowsky?
Inks Ed Winiarski?

5 page story "Death In the Coral Sea"

Genre War; Fact
Pencils Charles Nicholas ?
Inks Charles Nicholas ?

5 page Jeep Jones story "Jeep Joins the Army"

Characters I & O: Jeep Jones

2 page text story "Look Out For Spies!"

Letters typeset
Notes The second page of this text story is printed on the inside back cover. Two-thirds of the last column is occupied by the Statement of Ownership.

8 page Whizzer story "Slow Motion Jones and the Last Chance Lightship"

Characters I: Slow-Motion Jones
Genre superhero

6 page Sergeant Dix story "Sergeant Dix Calls the Plays"

Characters V: Roden (I)
Genre war
Script Roy Garn (signed)
Pencils Frank Borth (signed)
Inks Frank Borth (signed)

9 page Jap Buster Johnson story "Johnson Invades Japan"

Characters I & O: Doug "Jap Buster" Johnson; V: Japanese (who else?)
Genre war
Pencils Syd Shores?
Inks Syd Shores?

Half page statement of ownership "Statement of the Ownership, Management, Circulation, Etc."

Script Martin Goodman; Regina N. Gierber (notary)
Letters typeset
Editing U.S.A. Comic Magazine Corp. (owner, publisher); Martin Goodman (owner, editor, managing editor); Abraham Goodman (business manager)
Notes Statement for October 1, 1942. Signed and notarized September 17, 1942. All addresses given as 30 W. 42nd St., N.Y., N.Y.