Uncle Sam Quarterly #4 is an issue of the series Uncle Sam Quarterly (Volume 1) with a cover date of September, 1942. It was published on July 3, 1942.
Synopsis for "The Mongrol Man"
Appearing in "The Mongrol Man"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Adolf Hitler
- Benito Mussolini
- Emperor Hirohito
- Jeremiah Korntooth, biologist
- the Mongrol Men (all die)
Other Characters:
- Tex, Sailor
- Bayou Bill, Marine
- two cute Everytown girls
Locations:
- England
- Stetson Arms Plant (Destroyed)
- China
- Burma Road
- New York City, 1866 (Flashback only)
- Everytown, U.S.A.
- Waterfront
- Africa
- Russia
- Utzk
- Prosofk
- Pacific Ocean
Vehicles:
- Uncle Sam's airplane
- Italian tanks
- two Japanese Zeroes (Destroyed)
Synopsis for "Pootzie the Spy"
Appearing in "Pootzie the Spy"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Von Schmitz Der Pootzie, espinotch achint {*}
- Adolf Hitler (Apparent Death)
- Herman Goring
- Gitzel, saboteur
- Schnotz, saboteur
- Dopitz, saboteur
Animals:
- Schnitzoof, Pootzie's vulture.
Locations:
- Germany
- Nazi Party Headquarters, Berlin
- Messerschmitt Factory
- Everytown, U.S.A.
- American Institute of Inventions
- Atlantic Ocean
Vehicles:
- steamship
- assorted German warplanes
Synopsis for Heroic Exploits of the War: "Doolittle's Bombing Raid"
(nonfiction account of the Doolittle Raid of April 18th, 1942.)
Appearing in Heroic Exploits of the War: "Doolittle's Bombing Raid"
Featured Characters:
- Brigadier General Jimmy Doolittle
Antagonists:
Other Characters:
- 16 U.S. bomber crews
Locations:
Vehicles:
- sixteen B-25 bombers
- many Japanese warships
- many Japanese fighter planes
Synopsis for "Odakim the Fierce"
Odakim the Fierce considers himself the rightful Emperor of Japan. He schemes to usurp his cousin's throne by out-performing him martially. After much study, Odakim decides to defeat the U.S.A. by defeating Uncle Sam, and to accomplish that by means of menacing Buddy Smith. Buddy is abducted away to Odakim's base in Manchukuo, and when Uncle Sam pursues them there, he crashes his way into a trap. Odakim momentarily stops Sam with an Electro-Paralysis Ray, then sends in three jujitsu fighters, then seals the room and floods it with Sam and Buddy inside. None of that works, and soon Uncle Sam is beating up Odakim, who dives out a window and escapes in a motorboat, out to the open sea.
Just then, from a nearby U.S. airbase, a squadron of Grumman Avenger torpedo bombers arrives, to attack the Manchukuon outpost. Odakim's speedboat sports a .30-cal. machine gun, and he's able to shoot down one of the U.S. planes, before dying in a hail of machine gun fire.
Appearing in "Odakim the Fierce"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Odakim the Fierce, cousin of Hirohito (Dies)
- his fighters and other servants
Other Characters:
- U.S. military aviators
Locations:
- an obscure province in eastern Manchukuo
- Odakim's fortress (Destroyed)
- Pacific Ocean
- U.S. Air Corps Base
- Tokio (Mentioned only) (*)
Items:
- Electro-Paralysis Ray (Destroyed)
Vehicles:
- Japanese cruiser
- Odakim's motor launch (Destroyed)
- squadron of Grumman TBF Avenger light bombers (one destroyed)
Synopsis for "Beauty and the Beast"
A deadly gas is released in a southern valley, killing all the local farmers and their families. Uncle Sam neutralizes the gas by smashing a dam and flooding the valley.
Appearing in "Beauty and the Beast"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Jason Fenshaw, crackpot scientist (Dies)
- Al Fenshaw, ex-con (Dies)
- Cindy Fenshaw (reforms, dies)
Other Characters:
- Jane, Cindy's friend
- Ann, Cindy's other friend
- farm families in vicinity (all die)
Locations:
- a southern highway
- Fenshaw Mansion
Items:
- Jason Fenshaw's Dissolvo Gas
- (doesn't work on Uncle Sam)
Vehicles:
- Cindy's red roadster
Synopsis for "The Fighting Bears and the Mechanical Penguins"
Uncle Sam runs to Alaska, with Buddy, and hunts up some Kodiak bears, fistfights them long enough to show them who's boss, then feeds them a whole lot of fish, thus gaining their loyalty. He trains these bears to fight the Japanese, who have arrived at Alaska's shoreline in fake icebergs, concealing heavy artillery. Uncle Sam smashes his way inside one of these batteries and completely disables it, but some enemy troops escape in enclosed motorized capsules. Sam calls in his fast-swimming bears to deal with them. These beasts slash open the capsules like peanut shells and kill the would-be escapees. Meanwhile in an unguarded workshop, Buddy builds about a dozen mechanical swimming exploding penguins, and uses them against a boatload of Japanese commandos. A follow-up attack by Japanese bombers is repulsed by U.S. fighter planes.
Appearing in "The Fighting Bears and the Mechanical Penguins"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Japanese Military (some die)
Other Characters:
- Alaskan Outpost Commander
- his troops
- Uncle Sam's trained Kodiak Bears, four of them
Locations:
Items:
- artillery battery disguised as icebergs (Destroyed)
Vehicles:
- few U.S. amphibious biplane scouts
- few Japanese escape capsule boats (Destroyed)
- many Japanese light bombers (some destroyed)
- many U.S. interceptors
Notes
- Heroic Exploits
- Tokyo is spelled as "Tokio" in this story's captions and dialogue.
- Doolittle's military unit, at the time of the raid, is not identified. The USS Hornet, which got Doolittle's bombers within striking range of Japan, is not mentioned in this story. China, where most of Doolittle's planes landed, and Russia, where the other one landed, are also not mentioned in this story. It was published in 1942, and a lot of things were secret, then, that would be public knowledge later; evidently these were some of those.
- Last page also features a one-panel promo of Lieut. Edward O'Hare.
- Mongrol Man
- There are three Mongrol Men, despite the title. These monsters are the third generation of a science project by Jeremiah Korntooth, superhuman in size and strength, and bulletproof. One is killed by lassoing him, by the neck, from an airplane, and hanging him under a waterfall. One sinks in quicksand. The third is swimming in the ocean when a burning fighter plane crashes into him.
- Uncle Sam's plane is a 2-engine bomber, of no recognizable type, with pre-WWII U.S. military markings and a large white numeral "4" on the fuselage.
- Odakim the Fierce
- Tokyo is also spelled as "Tokio" in this story's captions and dialogue.
- "Okakim" spelled backwards is Mikado.
- Pootzie the Spy
- Adolf and Herman talk with katzenjammer accents.
- Uncle Sam has a disguise-making make-up kit, and can radically alter his appearance. In this story he impersonates Adolf Hitler.
- At this story's end, Pootzie and his three spy buddies are all safely back in Germany and still at large.
- Hitler is in his countryside hide-out when Uncle Sam, in a stolen Stuka, drops a bomb on it, and the caption raises the question of whether he survived. But apparently he survived.
- Also featured in this issue of Uncle Sam was:
- "Heroes, All" (text article), short biographies of Jimmy Doolittle, Donald F Mason, Hewitt T Wheless, James Edmundson, Herman Schmitt, and Clarence Dickinson, Jr.
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