...you'll note that, even though this is the third chapter, it's the first cover to feature the story!
Over the twenty-five issue run of the serial, only four covers feature it!
Oh, BTW, here's the story synopsis...
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Nippo from Nagasaki is hardly the most egregious example of wartime racism against the Japanese.
Captain Marvel's competition, Superman, presented a nastier one in one of his Fleisher Brothers-produced cartoons...
Written by Otto Binder and illustrated by CC Beck and Pete Costanza, this particular tale doesn't show any of the Japanese as monkey-like twisted creatures, as many of the comics and cartoons of the era do.
And I suspect the use of "Nagasaki" in Nippo's full name was mere alliteration, not foreshadowing of the city being the target of the second atom bomb a couple of years later...
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