National Comics #16 San Francisco Pedigree (Quality, 1941) CGC VF+ 8.5 White pages....

Auction amount: $7,170.00

Sold: May 14, 2016

National Comics #16 Values

Publisher: Quality Comics, 1941

About National Comics #16

Classic Uncle Sam cover by Reed Crandall. Klaus Nordling, Nick Cardy, Fred Guardineer, and Lou Fine art.

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COVER DETAILS

Characters: Uncle Sam; Quicksilver [Max] (inset); Kid Patrol (inset); Sally O'Neil (inset)

Pencils: Reed Crandall

Inks: Reed Crandall

STORY DETAILS

(15 Stories)

Title: The Hollywood Invasion Plot

Characters: Uncle Sam; Buddy Smith; George Washington (as a ghost); Emil von Blon (Warren Brothers movie director); fifth columnists (villains)

Synopsis: Spies discover fertile ground for an attack on a movie set. The director is so successful and powerful that he was able to procure the use of U.S. Navy ships. The movie is meant to stir American patriotism, but the set is infiltrated by fifth columnists. Buddy, on board one of the submarines, discovers this and turns the tables on the saboteurs, while the ghost of George Washington appears to Uncle Sam to alert him of the danger. Together, Sam and Buddy defeat the spies but only after several ships have been destroyed.

Pages: 9.000

Script: Will Eisner

Pencils: Lou Fine

Inks: Lou Fine

Title: The Amateur Hour

Characters: Kid Patrol

Pages: 5.000

Script: Toni Blum [as Dan Wilson]

Pencils: Charles Nicholas

Inks: Charles Nicholas

Notes: Script credit suggeted by Jerry Bails' Who's Who. The art match the Nicholas sample at Who's Who.

Title: Pagi's Return to the Islands

Characters: Wonder Boy; Pagi (South Seas performing native)

Synopsis: Wonder Boy witnesses the performance of a South Seas native and wonders if the man is really happy in this civilization or would prefer to return home.

Pages: 5.000

Script: ? [as Jerry Maxwell (byline)]

Pencils: Nick Cardy

Inks: Nick Cardy

Title: The Soap Box Demagogue

Characters: Quicksilver [Max]; McGinty (villain, radical speaker); C.J. Merton (villain, political boss)

Synopsis: A political boss is paying crooks across America to make speeches and to stir up dissent in a scheme to become president under a new party banner and to rule as a dictator.

Pages: 6.000

Script: Paul Gustavson [as N. Viscardi] (signed)

Pencils: Paul Gustavson [as N. Viscardi] (signed)

Inks: Paul Gustavson [as N. Viscardi] (signed)

Letters: Paul Gustavson

Notes: Several Quicksilver stories are bylined Nick Cardy, but the art is not in any way similar to his Senorita Rio stories in Fight Comics #19 and 21. They are signed N. Viscardi, his real name. Also Nick Viscardi's first Lady Luck story in the Sunday Spirit section for May 18, 1941 has a very different style from this one. It is identical to the unmistakeable art of Paul Gustavson. Either is Nick Cardy the writer, or just a byline name like most of the other byline names with no connection to any real artist used in Quality comics. A little mystery. Originally credited "Nick Cardy (signed)". Gustavson credits from Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson.

Title: Herr Musser's Radio Plot

Characters: Prop Powers

Pages: 5.000

Script: Toni Blum [as Lynn Bird]

Pencils: Witmer Williams

Inks: Witmer Williams

Notes: The artwork match the Witmer sample at Who's Who. Script credit suggested by the Who's Who.

Title: The Rustling of Babe

Characters: Paul Bunyan

Pages: 4.000

Script: ? [as Story Weaver]

Pencils: Reed Crandall

Inks: Reed Crandall ?

Notes: The art is very similar to CRandall's signed story in Police Comics #1, but the inking is a little different.

Title: Incident in Greenland

Characters: Merlin the Magician [Jock Kellog]; the Nazis (villains)

Synopsis: Merlin boosts the Greenland natives' campaign against Nazi thieves with a giant walrus.

Pages: 6.000

Script: Fred Guardineer [as Lance Blackwood] (signed)

Pencils: Fred Guardineer [as Lance Blackwood] (signed)

Inks: Fred Guardineer [as Lance Blackwood] (signed)

Notes: Lance Blackwood, according to the Who's Who, is a by-line on this strip. Credits from the Quality Companion (TwoMorrows, 2012).

Data Courtesy of Grand Comics Database under Creative Commons license

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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	0	0	1	0	2	6	5	1	3	4	1	4	1	1	4	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	36
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	1	1	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6
Total	1	1	0	1	0	3	7	5	1	3	5	2	4	1	1	4	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	42

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