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Cover: Reed Crandall
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National Comics #31

Apr 1943 · Quality Comics · 0.10 USD
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This anthology issue features a story involving Sally, a police officer who investigates a murder disguised as a suicide, uncovering a vicious insurance fraud racket where criminals forced debtors to sign over insurance policies before killing them. The issue also includes a war story with military personnel discovering a Japanese-planted mine on a ship's gunwales and successfully detonating it, and an adventure featuring Quicksilver pursuing criminals across the Saint Lawrence River and into the Canadian wilderness, including the Thousand Islands region, as the fugitives attempt to escape by water.

Contains 11 stories
Untitled Superhero story
11 pp · Superhero
Uncle SamBuddyHamid the Astrologer (villainintroductiondeath)Adolf Hitler (villain!)Hermann Goering (villain)
The Men Who Wanted to Die
8 pp · Detective-Mystery
Sally O'Neil
Untitled Humor story
1 pp · Humor
Untitled War story
6 pp · War
The Unknown
Untitled Sports story
5 pp · Sports
Kid Dixon [Danny "Kid" Dixon]
Untitled Humor story
1 pp · Humor
Windy Breeze
Untitled War story
7 pp · War
Murder with Words
6 pp · Adventure, Humor, Children
Kid Patrol [SunshineSuzyPorkyTeddy]Nutsy

When a mysterious stranger convinces the simple-minded Nutsy that his words alone can kill, the Kid Patrol must uncover the sinister truth behind a series of baffling murders in their city. As Nutsy becomes an unwitting pawn in a dangerous spy scheme, Sunshine, Suzy, Porky, and Teddy race against time to stop the real killer and free their dupe from a villain's manipulation. Can the young detectives expose the conspiracy before another innocent falls victim to this deadly con?

Untitled Humor story
1 pp · Humor
Cyclone Cupid
The Corpse That Wouldn't Stay Buried
7 pp · Superhero
Quicksilver [Max]Joe (circus clown)
Case No. 5: The Mystery of the Baskerville Twins
9 pp · Spy

Captain Don Leash of G-2 hunts down the Baskerville brothers when one of them—Belfry—turns traitor, stealing military secrets and airplane fuel plans to sell to enemy agents. As G-2 closes in across laboratories and steel works, a shocking revelation emerges: the brother Belfry thought dead has been trailing him all along, determined to stop his crimes by any means necessary. A desperate confrontation on the factory girders will decide the fate of both brothers and the stolen plans.

ComicBooks.com Value

Our Model is In Beta
Raw (Good) $93
CGC 9.4 · 1 in census $2,400
CGC 9.2 · 1 in census $1,065
CGC 9.0 none in existence
CGC 8.5 none in existence
CGC 8.0 none in existence
CGC 7.5 · 1 in census $354
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CGC 7.0 none in existence
CGC 6.5 · 1 in census $248
CGC 6.0 · 1 in census $196*
CGC 5.5 · 2 in census $165*
CGC 5.0 none in existence
CGC 4.5 none in existence
CGC 4.0 · 1 in census $116*
* estimate — limited direct-sales data at this grade
Our model’s value — refined as new sales data arrives · CGC census counts shown where available

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Full credits

artist, inker Fred Guardineer
cover pencils, inks Reed Crandall

Reprints

Reprinted in The Barker #14 (1949), Yarmak Jungle King Comic #41 (1953)

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