Star Spangled Avengers

The phenomenal success of the Captain America comic book in 1941 spurred a trend towards flag-draped superheroes throughout the industry during the ealy days of World War II. MLJ's The Shield had debuted first, but now in the wake of Steven Rogers's alter-ego it appeared as if every American comics outfit suddenly needed to have one, two, three; sometimes more of these red-white-and-blue characters to fill out there line.

AC Comics' Golden Age Greats Volume 6:Spotlight on Star Spangled Avengers is a collection of the best & most interesting among the off-brand, imitation Caps, sampled from a variety of long-defunct Golden Age publishers.

It includes Fox Features' pariotic heroes The Eagle, U.S. Jones and (reprinted for the first time at AC) V-Man in The Meeting That Death Attended. Also, from the Harvey stable, Captain Freedom as well as the origin of The Spirit of '76.

Other strips include Commando Yank in The Temple of the One-Eyed Yellow Idol, Minute Man in Makes the Dictators Buy War Bonds. while Spy Smasher present Fawcett's flag-wavers, as do Flag-Man, Misss Victory and The Red Cross from Holyoke Publications, Yank & Doodle from Prize Comics, Yankee Doodle Jones from Chesler, and Captain Courgaeous in Unholy Death from Ace.

The volume contains 14 full stories in all, shot directly from actual vintage comics as source material. 150 pages of state-of-the art black & white reprints of the patriotic superheroes of the Golden Age. Featured artists include Phil Bard, Ramona Patenaude, Pierce Rice, Arturo Cazeneuve, Jack Alderman, Charles Quinlan, Rudy Palais, John Giunta and Charles Sultan.