Banner Comics #3 Values

Publisher: Ace Magazines, 1941

About Banner Comics #3

First appearance of Captain Courageous. Lone Warrior and Sidekick Dickey features begin. War cover by Jim Mooney. Story art by George Wilson.

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COVER DETAILS

Characters: Captain Courageous

Pencils: Jim Mooney (signed)

Inks: Jim Mooney (signed)

STORY DETAILS

(7 Stories)

Characters: Captain Courageous (introduction); The Nazis (villains)

Synopsis: Captain Courageous,innocently enough, stops kids from bullying a girl and it snowballs into stopping a Nazi invasion of the United States.

Pages: 16.000

Pencils: Jim Mooney ?

Inks: Jim Mooney ?

Notes: The Nazi army is equipped with super-weaponry that would be familiar to readers of Whiz Comics #3, right down to super-planes able to drop tanks. Art credits by Craig Delich.

Characters: The Lone Warrior [Stan Carter] (introduction); Dicky [Richard Carter] (Stan's younger brother, introduction); The Dictator's Shadow (villain, introduction); enemy saboteurs [Kampf; two others unnamed] (villains, introduction for all)

Synopsis: Lone Warrior enlists in the U.S. Army and is stationed right by the boys' camp where his kid brother is in attendance. The two join forces to stop saboteurs at the Army base who are working for the Dictator's Shadow.

Pages: 16.000

Script: Otto Binder

Notes: There are noticable themes here: the patriotism, the Army private who is secretly a superhero, the kid sidekick, the chemistry-related origin, the murder attempts on Army generals....all of which parallel Captain America. Binder is credited as a writer of this story by Bails's Who's Who.

Characters: Kay McKay; Ned

Synopsis: Ned and Kay are asked by the American Consul in Mexico City to return diamonds to Brazil, but gangsters have other plans.

Pages: 9.000

Pencils: Art Saaf ?

Inks: Art Saaf ?

Notes: last app. in OUR FLAG COMICS #1. Though "only" an air stewardess, Kay can outfly her pilot, shoot a revolver, disable a plane, and stop an alligator.

Characters: Paul Revere, Jr. (introduction); Paul Revere, Sr. (introduction); Patrick Henry (introduction); Betsy Ross (introduction); The Thorns (villains, introduction for all)

Synopsis: Paul Sr. runs an anti-isolationist newspaper called "America Awake", which draws the ire of a Fifth Column group called The Thorns. Paul Jr. and his friends, Patrick and Betsy, are members of a club with the same name and fight the Thorns.

Pages: 10.000

Pencils: George Wilson (signed)

Inks: George Wilson (signed)

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CGC Census Report*

Grade	0.5	1.0	1.5	1.8	2.0	2.5	3.0	3.5	4.0	4.5	5.0	5.5	6.0	6.5	7.0	7.5	8.0	8.5	9.0	9.2	9.4	9.6	9.8	9.9	10.0	Total
Universal	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	5	3	1	0	1	2	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	20
Qualified	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Signature Series	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Restored	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Total	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	5	3	1	0	1	3	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	22

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