Comicbook urban legend targets Maine

Maine has a long and storied relationship with World War II plots for conquer (both fact and fiction), but this one has some interesting twists...

COMIC BOOK URBAN LEGENDS REVEALED #167
by Brian Cronin
Thursday, August 7th, 2008 at 11:27 PM EST

This is the one-hundred and sixty-seventh in a series of examinations of comic book urban legends and whether they are true or false. Click here for an archive of the previous one-hundred and sixty-six. Click here for a similar archive, only arranged by subject.

Let’s begin!

COMIC URBAN LEGEND: An Uncle Sam comic book featuring Pearl Harbor being bombed was released…in November of 1941!!

STATUS: True

Reader John Trumbull suggested this one a couple of weeks ago.

Astonishingly, in National Comics #18, which was a Quality Comic starring Uncle Sam, the main story involved the bombing of Pearl Harbor!

And the release date of the comic was November of 1941!!!!

The story was written by Gil Fox, with artwork by Lou Fine.

The big difference between this comic and actual events is that in this comic, it was GERMANY who attacks Pearl Harbor.

The bombing attack was actually a ruse to lure the United States Navy away from the Eastern Seabord, where Germany attacks - with Maine being their first target.

Ultimately, Uncle Sam and his sidekick, Buddy, help the residents of Maine drive off the German invaders, with an able assist from none other than the ghost of John Paul Jones (not the one from Led Zeppelin)!!!

As amazing as it sounds at first, the idea of Pearl Harbor being attacked was not exactly the most original idea - it was the home of the United States’ Pacific Fleet, so it was a natural location for an attack.

But still, for it to be released just a MONTH before it was actually attacked?

That really IS amazing.

Thanks so much to John Trumbull for making me hip to the info!

See the original post for illustrations from the comic and more: [Source]

from Waterville : Captain Cult !

As the 2000s revisits the 1980s, we are reminded of the '80s affinity for the 1960s.

We've exumed yet another 80s Maine-made comic book, in which a museum custodian named Tobey Draper finds an old flight jacket and goes back in time... only to be greeted as
Captain Cult. Oh, what those retro bomber jackets can do...

more '80s Maine-made comics

Two more finds, from Waterville-based Hammac...

Made in Maine : 1980s Horror Comics !

Our excavations have turned up some space alien comic books from Waterville, Maine, published by Hammac Publications. These were commercially published and sold, and full-length stories. Some more titles and covers to follow.

But first, we bring you "Cosmic Steller Rebelers !!"

Here's Issue #1, published in 1988. The aliens escape the "evil long arms of Narco," and land in... Maile.

Issue #2, also from 1988, has our aliens cruising tree-lined roads in a panel van bearing the name, "Cote's Cleaning Co."

And Issue #3, with the vibrant color cover, (correctly spelling "Stellar," though leaving "Rebelers" alone) published in 1989, bring the war with Narco (Ruler of the Universe) to earth! But, alas, was there an Issue #4 ??