National Comics #18 Mile High pedigree (Quality, 1941) CGC NM+ 9.6 White pages. This remarkable Lou Fine/Reed Crandall cover...
Auction amount: $8,050.00
Sold: Feb 8, 2004
National Comics #18 Values
Publisher: Quality Comics, 1941
About National Comics #18
The Reed Crandall Uncle Sam cover on this book foreshadowed the attack on Pearl harbor, one month before the attack actually happened! How amazing is that? Klaus Nordling, Fred Guardineer, and Gill Fox all added stories and art for the issue. Lou Fine and early Nick Cardy art.Why sell your comic books with Heritage Auctions?
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COVER DETAILS
Pencils: Reed Crandall
Inks: Reed Crandall
STORY DETAILS
Characters: Uncle Sam; Buddy Smith; John Paul Jones (as a ghost; cameo); the Nazis (villains)
Synopsis: The Axis Powers spread a wide net of mayhem, attacking Pearl Harbor (by the Germans yet!), Guam and Portland, Maine. Buddy's idea of building a wire net, carried below airplanes to foul up the invader's plane props, was quite successful. While defending the seas near Maine, Uncle Sam encountered the Spirit of John Paul Jones, which inspired Sam to use America's retired frigates to encircle the enemy in fire, even as enemy soldiers invaded Boston, Massachusetts.
Pages: 9.000
Script: Harry Stein [as William E. Eisner] (signed)
Pencils: Lou Fine
Inks: Lou Fine
Notes: This story eerily told of the bombing of Pearl Harbor.....and the magazine was cover dated December, 1941, even though the story was probably produced some six months in advance. Writer credit changed from Gil Fox to Harry Stein from an interview Gil Fox gave Jim Amash, portion of which reprinted by Amash on the Comics History Exchange on Facebook (7 December 2016). Fox confirms Stein wrote the story. Fox also disputes Will Eisner's claim he had researched and suggested the idea.
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GoCollect Price Guide Report for this comic
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 |
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Universal |
0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Restored |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Total | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 |
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