{{short description|Comic book}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox comic book title <!--Wikipedia:WikiProject Comics--> | image = MilitaryComicsNo21.jpg | caption = | schedule = Monthly | format = Standard | publisher = Quality Comics | date = August 1941 – October 1945 | issues = 43 | main_char_team = Blackhawk<br>Blue Tracer<br>Miss America | writers = | artists = | pencillers = | inkers = | colorists = | creative_team_month = | creative_team_year = | creators = }} '''''Military Comics''''', later '''''Modern Comics''''', was a comic book anthology title published by Quality Comics during the Golden Age of Comic Books from 1941 until 1950.<ref name=Companion>{{cite book |last1=Koolman |first1=Mike |last2=Amash |first2=Jim |title=The Quality Companion |date=2011 |publisher=TwoMorrows Publishing |isbn=978-1605490373 |pages=222–223}}</ref> The first issue of ''Military Comics'' is notable for featuring the debut of Blackhawk, Blue Tracer, and Miss America.<ref name="steranko">Steranko, Jim. ''The Steranko History of Comics'' Volume 2. (Supergraphics, 1972).</ref><ref name=chs>{{cite web|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927212535/http://www.chs.org/comics/quality.htm|archivedate=September 27, 2007|title=Quality Comic Group: A Brief History|publisher=Connecticut Historical Society|url=http://www.chs.org/comics/quality.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Polo |first1=Susana |title=DC Comics' Blackhawks, explained |url=https://www.polygon.com/comics/2018/4/18/17248620/blackhawks-steven-spielberg-dc-comics |website=Polygon |accessdate=17 April 2019 |date=18 April 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title='Blackhawk': Who Is Steven Spielberg's DC Comics Team? |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/blackhawk-who-is-steven-spielbergs-dc-comics-team-1103610 |website=The Hollywood Reporter |date=17 April 2018 |accessdate=17 April 2019 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Spielberg once warned of superhero cinema's death. Now he's making a movie for DC Comics. |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2018/04/18/spielberg-once-warned-of-superhero-cinemas-death-now-hes-making-a-movie-for-dc-comics/?noredirect=on |newspaper=Washington Post |accessdate=17 April 2019 |language=en}}</ref>
With issue #44 (Nov. 1945), the title of the series was changed to ''Modern Comics''. The series ended with issue #102 (Oct. 1950).
Creators involved with the title include Reed Crandall, Chuck Cuidera, Everett M. "Busy" Arnold, Klaus Nordling, Bob Powell, Fred Guardineer, Elmer Wexler, and Al McWilliams.
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * {{gcdb series|id= 225 |title=Military Comics}} * {{gcdb series|id= 402 |title=Modern Comics}}
Category:Comics magazines published in the United States Category:Quality Comics titles Category:1941 comics debuts Category:1950 comics endings Category:Magazines established in 1941 Category:Magazines disestablished in 1950 Category:Golden Age comics titles Category:Military comics
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