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Wow Comics #7 (July 17th, 1942)

Art by Charles Sultan

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Vintage Comic - Yankee Comics #01

Pencils: Charles Sultan

Inks: Charles Sultan

Chesler (Sept1941)

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Bulletman, covers by Charles Sultan, Mac Raboy and Jack Binder.

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Dynamic Comics #1 (October, 1941). Cover by Charles Sultan.

This issue includes the origins and first appearance of not only cover star Major Victory, but the first Dynamic Man, Hale the Magician, and the Black Cobra.

Major Victory was another of the seemingly unending parade of patriotic superheroes that followed the arrival of MLJ's The Shield the previous year. It seems that no one told the comic book publishers that America had not entered World War ll.

The Major was a nameless soldier who got an oil lantern to the face and blown up by an evil saboteur. Father Patriot, a poor man's combination of Uncle Sam and the wizard Shazam, takes pity on the soldier and brings him back to life. Father Patriot tasks the newly christened Major Victory with protecting America.

Father Patriot even goes so far as to equip the Major with a costume, a wireless shack with a super radio, and an airplane hangar complete with an airplane (which he destroys on his first mission) on a remote mountaintop somewhere.

However, Father Patriot neglected to give the poor guy any superpowers at all; at least initially. In later stories Father Patriot would grant Major Victory "the strength of 1,000 men" when he was in a tough spot (might've been smarter to give him that at the get go), and magically transport him to where he was needed (which was cheaper than replacing an entire airplane).

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Bulls Eye Comics #11 (1944) art by Charles Sultan (?) (Featuring the Green Knight)

A really interesting use of foregrounding here, where your eye gets drawn to the bat (a vampire in disguise) without losing sight of the Green Knight (a Green Arrow knock-off).