National Comics #29
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeAl Gabriele's cover for this 1943 Quality Comics issue sets an wonderfully eerie mood — Uncle Sam and a young companion creep cautiously toward a dark, ramshackle house silhouetted against a full moon, while four sinister floating heads loom ominously in the night sky above them. The cover caption teases that this supposedly unoccupied house near Uncle Sam's home holds a secret, hinting at the menace lurking within the "Dr. Dirge" story inside. It's a genuinely atmospheric piece of wartime comics craft that blends patriotic adventure with old-fashioned haunted-house chills.
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After the Nazi invasion of France, an American civilian found himself allied with the French forces, surviving a gunshot wound. But his injuries led to amnesia, and he couldn't remember his true name or country of origin. In the Battle of Dunkirk, he dons a costume and fought the Nazis along side the British and French as "The Unknown." Refusing an offer to return to England, the Unknown remains in Europe to fight the Nazis head-on. As he put it, "I have forgotten much....but I will never forget cruelty and injustice!"
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