Fawcett Publications · Master Comics #62 · July 1945 · 10¢ · 68 pages
Grade: VG/F 5.0
Cover promotes the 7th War Loan — Buy Stamps and Bonds — with Uncle Sam appearing alongside Captain Marvel Jr. and Radar.
Captain Marvel Jr. and Radar headline this issue under the banner “America's Fighting Heroes,” Fawcett's wartime framing that tied its superhero stable directly to the Allied cause. By mid-1945, Captain Marvel Jr. — Freddy Freeman, the crippled newsboy who transforms by speaking his mentor's name — had become Fawcett's second-string ace, carrying the bulk of Master Comics since his debut in issue #23. Radar, the International Policeman, rounds out the lineup as the book's secondary feature, a globe-trotting law-enforcement hero built for the wartime moment.
Specific story titles, page counts, and interior creator credits for this issue are not confirmed in our records. What is certain: this is a late-war Fawcett superhero anthology published in the final summer of World War II, with the 7th War Loan bond drive tie-in on the cover — a government-coordinated campaign that ran across American publishing in the spring and summer of 1945. Uncle Sam's cover appearance is a direct product of that initiative.
Issue #62 lands in the final stretch of Master Comics' wartime run — V-J Day was still weeks away when this hit newsstands. Copies from this period turn up less frequently than earlier issues in the run; the paper stock is thinner, the print runs were tighter, and a lot of these were literally cut up for the bond stamps they promoted. Mid-grade survivors are not common.
Condition VG/F 5.0 — .
We use what the scientists are calling artificial intelligence to research and write our descriptions — it gives us more time to add books to our website and provide you with a wider array of inventory. We think Klaatu would approve. Details are verified but the robot does slip up. We're not infallible. Every book is graded by a human collector who has actually held it. If anything ever looks off, reach on out at robopictocomics@gmail.com.
Fawcett Publications · Master Comics #62 · July 1945 · 10¢ · 68 pages
Grade: VG/F 5.0
Cover promotes the 7th War Loan — Buy Stamps and Bonds — with Uncle Sam appearing alongside Captain Marvel Jr. and Radar.
Captain Marvel Jr. and Radar headline this issue under the banner “America's Fighting Heroes,” Fawcett's wartime framing that tied its superhero stable directly to the Allied cause. By mid-1945, Captain Marvel Jr. — Freddy Freeman, the crippled newsboy who transforms by speaking his mentor's name — had become Fawcett's second-string ace, carrying the bulk of Master Comics since his debut in issue #23. Radar, the International Policeman, rounds out the lineup as the book's secondary feature, a globe-trotting law-enforcement hero built for the wartime moment.
Specific story titles, page counts, and interior creator credits for this issue are not confirmed in our records. What is certain: this is a late-war Fawcett superhero anthology published in the final summer of World War II, with the 7th War Loan bond drive tie-in on the cover — a government-coordinated campaign that ran across American publishing in the spring and summer of 1945. Uncle Sam's cover appearance is a direct product of that initiative.
Issue #62 lands in the final stretch of Master Comics' wartime run — V-J Day was still weeks away when this hit newsstands. Copies from this period turn up less frequently than earlier issues in the run; the paper stock is thinner, the print runs were tighter, and a lot of these were literally cut up for the bond stamps they promoted. Mid-grade survivors are not common.
Condition VG/F 5.0 — .
We use what the scientists are calling artificial intelligence to research and write our descriptions — it gives us more time to add books to our website and provide you with a wider array of inventory. We think Klaatu would approve. Details are verified but the robot does slip up. We're not infallible. Every book is graded by a human collector who has actually held it. If anything ever looks off, reach on out at robopictocomics@gmail.com.
