<i>Military Comics</i> No. 33
date: label: date made
content: 1944
name: label: maker
content: Quality Comics
notes: label: Description
content: <i>Military Comics</i> No. 33 was published by Quality Comics in October 1944. The cover art by Al Bryant depicts Blackhawk leading the Blackhawk Squadron, as well as Chop-Chop, into battle. This issue features the Blackhawks in “Let the Band Play Dixie,” the Sniper in “The Opium Gambit,” Private Dogtag in “If Wishes were Horses,” the short story “The Cow of China,” P.T. Boat in the “Lord of Longley,” and the Secret War News comic “Flying Commandoes Smash Jap Armies.”
label: Description
content: <i>Military Comics</i> told “stories of the Army and Navy” and introduced the Blackhawk Squadron in issue No. 1 in August 1941. The Squadron was led by the Polish pilot Blackhawk, who battled the Nazi army that killed his brother and sister. The rest of the squadron was a motley crew of international military men with specialized skills to help defeat the Axis powers. World War II inspired many stories of patriotic heroes and Axis villains in American comic books that often encouraged supporting the war effort on its covers and throughout its pages. <i>Military Comics</i> was later renamed <i> Modern Comics</i> after issue number 43 in October 1945 following the end of World War II.
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content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Comics
label: related event
content: World War II
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Popular Entertainment
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content: Comic Books
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content: Gift of Olivia V. Crisson and Phillip M.S. Crisson in honor of Peter Bozzer
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2013.0086.083
label: catalog number
content: 2013.0086.083
label: accession number
content: 2013.0086
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content: comic book
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 1/2 in x 10 1/4 in; 19.05 cm x 26.035 cm