| Issue | #5 |
| Published | Summer 1942 |
| Frequency | quarterly |
| Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
| Pages | 68 |
| Editing | Stan Lee |
| Notes | U. S. A. COMICS is published quarterly at Meriden, Conn., by U.S.A. Comic Magazine Corp. Entered as second class matter May 2, 1941 at the post office at Meriden, Conn., under the Act of March 3, 1879. Contents copyright 1942 by U.S.A. Comic Magazine Corp. 330 W. 42nd St., New York, N. Y., Martin Goodman, Pres. Vol. 1, No. 5, Summer, 1942 issue. Yearly subscriptions $.40 in the U.S.A. No similarity between any of the names, characters, persons and/or institutions appearing in this magazine with those of any living or dead person or institution is intended, and that any such similarity which may exist is purely coincidental. Printed in the U.S.A. |
| Characters | Victory Boys; Adolf Hitler; Benito Mussolini; Hirohito |
| Genre | superhero |
| Pencils | Al Gabriele |
| Inks | George Klein |
| Letters | ?; typeset |
| Notes | A letter from Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, Jr. asking readers to buy ten cent Savings Stamps every week. Inside front cover. |
| Characters | Victory Boys [Victor; Maxie Stein; Kurt Erzberger; Gus Weber; Warren Zumwald] (in costume); Adolf Hitler (villain); Hirohito (villain); Benito Mussolini (villain) |
| Synopsis | Hitler and Mussolini need to find away to hide Germany's difficulties from a visiting Hirohito, so they whisk him off to a castle in the Black Forest. The Victory Boys are nearby, and Maxie is chosen to go hunting for some food for them. He gets captured, and the Victory Boys must confront the three dictators to rescue him. |
| Genre | superhero |
| Pencils | Syd Shores? |
| Inks | Charles Nicholas? |
| Notes | Last appeared in Comedy Comics (Marvel, 1942 series) #10 |
| Characters | Black Widow [Claire Voyant]; Satan; Karl Koodamore (villain; introduction; death) |
| Synopsis | Satan sends the Black Widow to collect the soul of Karl Koodamore, a man who arranges murders for money. Afer one of Koodamore's henchmen kill an actor on stage the Black Widow appears, killing one henchman, driving another to suicide, and tricking Koodamore into driving off a cliff. |
| Genre | superhero |
| Script | George Kapitan |
| Pencils | Mike Sekowsky (signed) |
| Inks | George Klein (signed) |
| Notes | Last appearance in Mystic Comics (Marvel, 1940 series) #7; Next appearance in All Select Comics (Marvel, 1943 series) #1 |
| Characters | Captain America [Steve Rogers] |
| Genre | superhero |
| Letters | typeset |
| Characters | Jonah Lamb (introduction); Mr. Lamb (introduction; death); Budd Powers (introduction) |
| Synopsis | When young Jonah's father dies in an earthquake in Shanghai, Jonah leaves the city to start afresh. He runs into a drifter named Budd Powers, and the two decide to stick together. They run across a village being attacked by bandits, and jump in on the side of the villagers, eventually running the bandits off. |
| Genre | adventure |
| Pencils | Charles Nicholas? |
| Inks | Al Gabriele? |
| Notes | Caniff-esque adventure. There is a teaser at the end for another of Jonah's adventures to be published in the next issue but it never appeared. |
| Characters | Butch Brogan (introduction) |
| Synopsis | Butch Brogan, a hobo, finds a book of Shakespear and feels inspired by it, although his fellow hobos mock him. When he sees a dog kidnapped from a woman for ransom, he volunteers to chase after them and retrieve it. |
| Pencils | Mike Sekowsky ?; Fred Kida ? |
| Inks | Fred Kida ? |
| Notes | Inks credits originally given to Mike Sekowsky in error (per Tony Isabella, March 30, 2006). Jerry Bails's Who's Who credits Fred Kida for both pencil and inks, but the original indexer tentatively credited Sekowsky (Henry Andrews, October 12, 2008). At the end, there is a teaser for more adventures of "Butch Brogan, the Happy Hobo" in the next issue, but they never appeared. |
| Characters | Blue Blade |
| Synopsis | The Blue Blade heads to the Pacific coast as a result of the Japanese joining the war. Once there, he saves an inventor and his daughter from Japanese spies who were trying to steel his atomic device. |
| Genre | superhero |
| Pencils | Vince Alascia? |
| Inks | Vince Alascia? |
| Notes | Often considered the same character as the Fourth Musketeer, last seen in Comedy Comics (Marvel, 1942 series) #10. However, some sources claim the costumes and backgrounds of the characters are different. In this story, one character does refer to the Blue Blade as "the musketeer", though. |
| Letters | typeset |
| Characters | Roko the Amazing [Lon Crag] (introduction; origin); Menalaos (introduction) |
| Synopsis | Lon Crag sees some other kids reading Captain America Comics at school and wishes he could be that kind of hero. In art class, his teacher compliments his painting of Menalaos, and Lon stays after school to complete it. When he is done, the painting comes to life and offers to grant him a wish. When he says the word Illium, 16-year-old Lon becomes an adult superhero named Roko with "the wisdom of Ulysses, the battle-prowess of Aggamenon [sic] and the invulnerability of Achilles", and with Achilles's weakness as well. As Roko, Lon solves the mystery of frequent deaths on a nearby construction project. |
| Genre | superhero |
| Script | Melville Henry (signed) |
| Pencils | Jack Alderman (signed) |
| Inks | Jack Alderman (signed) |
| Notes | Only appearance. At the end, Roko addresses the readers and asks them to write to him. |
| Genre | funny animal |
| Notes | Includes a small version of the cover to the issue, plus additional illustration. |
| Characters | Gypo (a gypsy giant; introduction); Bobby (introduction) |
| Synopsis | Bobby disobeys his mother by going into the forest where he meets Gypo, a giant who tries to scare him. Bobby is unimpressed, and Gypo feels like a failure, even more so when his normal-sized wife shows up and forces him to come home and deal with his pet dragon who is acting up again. |
| Notes | At the end there is a blurb asking readers to write in if they would like to see more of Gypo and Bobby. |
| Characters | Sergeant Dix [Jeff Dix]; Fish Face Friday (a cook; introduction); Mrs. Dix; Joe Dix |
| Synopsis | Corporal Jeff Dix's furlough is cut short and he is deployed to Panama. Now a Sergeant, he runs into his old friend Fish Face Friday who is the cook on the ship. While on their way to Panama they area attacked by the Japanese one of whom runs afoul of Fish Face when he tries to poison the food in the galley. |
| Genre | war |
| Pencils | Jack Alderman? |
| Inks | Charles Nicholas? |
| Notes | This feature was called "Corporal Dix" in the previous issue. |
| Genre | gag |
| Script | Lou Paige ? |
| Pencils | Lou Paige (signed) |
| Inks | Lou Paige (signed) |
| Notes | Numerous one-panel gags about silly inventions. |
| Characters | El Gaucho [American Avenger; Don Caldwell] (introduction; origin); Baron Girbel (villain; introduction) |
| Synopsis | Don Caldwell, an exchange student in South America, comes to love his new home and studies the legend of their protector El Gaucho, who died many years ago. An old man hears him speak of this, and gives him El Gaucho's costume to carry on the tradition. After defeating Nazis in South America, Don feels he must return to the U.S. to fight Nazis there, becoming the American Avenger. |
| Genre | superhero |
| Pencils | Vince Alascia |
| Inks | Vince Alascia |
| Notes | cover of ATOMIC COMICS #2 swiped from splash page of this story |
| Characters | Human Torch [Jim Hammond]; Toro; Sub-Mariner [Namor]; Angel [Tom Hallaway]; Terry Vance; Jimmy Jupiter; Patriot [Jeff Mace]; Vision [Aarkus] |
| Genre | superhero |
| Notes | Inside back cover. |
| Notes | Back cover. |