| Alias |
 
 |
|
Patriot
Uncle
Sam
|
| Nick
Name |
|
Embodiment of the Human Spirit
Spirit
of Liberty |
| Civilian
ID |
| Samuel
(Sam) |
| Occupation |
|
Adventurer
Patriot
|
| Legal
Status |
| Ethereal
entity merged with various patriots. |
| Nation
or Planet of Origin |
| United
States of America |
| Group
Affiliation |
|
All-Star
Squadron
Freedom Fighters
|
| Base
of Operations |
| Mobile |
| Height |
| 6'
2" |
| Weight |
| 170
lbs. |
| Eye
Color |
| Blue |
| Hair
Color |
| White |
| Skin
Tone |
| Caucasian |
| Known
Powers |
| Merger
with mystical patriotic being enabling super-human
strength, speed, stamina, agility, invulnerability, longevity and limited time and dimensional travel. |
| Accessories |
| Snappy
red, white and blue suit |
| Common
Enemies |
|
Communist
Crooked politicians and
leaders.
Nazis
Exploiters of the weak and powerless.
|
| Regularly
Appearing |
|
Freedom
Fighters
National
Comics
Uncle Sam
|
| First
Appearance |
|
National
Comics #1
(July, 1940)
Note: National Comics was originally published by
Quality Comics, not National Periodicals (DC Comics). National would acquire the stable of characters from
Quality after the publisher went out of business in 1956. |
| Creator |
| Will
Eisner Note: Although Will Eisner introduced Uncle
Sam to comics the image of the character was based upon the 1917 "I
Want You For U.S. Army" recruitment poster of World War I,
created by James Montgomery Flagg. |
| Origin |
| An
American Revolutionary War soldier named Sam was gunned down while
diverting Hessian mercenaries away from a wagon train of supplies for
General Washington's troops at Valley Forge. As he lay dying, a
vision of the spirit of American appeared as a bearded white-haired man
wearing a suit fashioned after the Star Spangled Banner. Sam's
spirit rose from his body and they became one. Through the decades he has
reappeared to help Americans in times of national turmoil, either by
fighting on the battlefields of foreign soils against oppression or on the
home front to protect liberty as Uncle Sam. |