SGT. DIX

Real Name: Jeff Dix

Identity/Class: Human (World War II Era)

Occupation: Soldier

Group Membership: U.S. Army

Affiliations: Joe Dix, Major Dunn, Fish Face Friday, Jitterbug, Sgt. Maloney, Tom, Benny Torsey, Major Wayne

Enemies: Blenheim, Ed Delaney, Fritz, Helmut, the Imperial Japanese Military, Ferdinand Jones, Kluss, Ludwig Kratz, Mike, Roden, Schenkel, the Voice of Doom (Avery), von Schnell

Known Relatives: Mrs. Dix (mother), Joe Dix (younger brother)

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: An unidentified U.S. Army base in the USA; sometimes mobile in the Pacific Theater of Operations

First Appearance: U.S.A. Comics I#4/4 (May, 1942)

Powers/Abilities: Sgt. Dix was an excellent hand-to-hand brawler. He was well-trained in military discipline and in drilling other soldiers, including paratrooper exercises. He proved to have excellent detective skills.

Height: Unrevealed (approximately 6'1")
Weight: Unrevealed (approximately 185 lbs.)
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Black

History:

(U.S.A. Comics I#4/4) - Jeff Dix was a Corporal in the U.S. Army. When he received a furlough to visit his home, he found the gangster Ed Delaney outside his mother's house. Dix roughed up Delaney and sent him away. Reunited with his mother, Dix learned Delaney was trying to recruit his brother Joe into the mob. Jeff tried to steer Joe away from crime and suggested Joe should join the Home Guard. However, Delaney later returned and convinced Joe to help him rob the money raised at a U.S.O. show. Jeff interrupted the robbery and fought Delaney and his gang. Joe tried to slip away but couldn't bear to leave his brother fighting the mob. Joe helped Jeff defeat the gangsters; afterward, Joe decided to take his brother's advice and joined the Home Guard.

(U.S.A. Comics I#5/8) - Now promoted to sergeant, Jeff's furlough was ended when his unit was called to the Panama Canal. Jeff said goodbye to Joe and his mother and went to his base, where he met his friend Fish Face Friday, an Army cook, as they boarded the ship for Panama. While the ship sailed for Panama, Japanese planes attacked them. Dix climbed to the top of the ship's smoke stack and leaped aboard a plane as it dived low. Dix ejected the pilots from the craft and rammed the plane into another Japanese craft, diving into the ocean. Sgt. Dix was retrieved and brought back to the ship. One of the Japanese pilots also survived and snuck aboard the ship but Dix discovered him and knocked him out.

(U.S.A. Comics I#6/9) - Back on an Army base in the USA, Sgt. Dix was on sentry duty and was pestered by local children, who enjoyed pelting Dix and the other sentries with their slingshots. When the children's pellets proved to be incendiary and started a fire on the base, Dix investigated and learned the children had been armed by Roden and other agents of the American Gestapo. Sgt. Dix rounded up Roden and the other agents and won a citation for himself.

(U.S.A. Comics I#8/8) - Sgt. Dix was put in charge of a mixed squad of men who required drilling. He took the men on a march and found them to be unusually poorly discplined and incapable of even a two mile march. Sgt. Dix reported this to his friend, Sgt. Maloney, who was secretly in Army Intelligence and suspected one of the undisciplined men, Ferdinand Jones of being a Nazi spy. Jones killed Maloney and Dix found Jones trying to dispose of Maloney's body. Sgt. Dix brought in the Military Police and rounded up Jones, who was arrested. A general gave Dix a special assignment because of his actions in catching Jones.

(U.S.A. Comics I#9/6) - Opening the instructions, Dix was ordered to assist Major Dunn in finding why gas was missing from Army gas tanks. Dix discovered a gas attendant named Blenheim was very stingy with gas; investigating Blenheim's garage, Dix found he'd built secret gas tanks into jeeps so he could hide it and deliver it to von Schnell, a Nazi spy. Sgt. Dix caught Blenheim and von Schnell.

(U.S.A. Comics I#10/5) - For his next assignment, Sgt. Dix was sent to explore wood shortages. He went undercover at a lumber mill and posed as though he wanted to sabotage the factory. This drew attention from the actual Nazi saboteurs, who invited Dix to join them. Dix stopped the Nazi's attempted lumber mill arson and caught their leader, Kluss.

(U.S.A. Comics I#11/5) - Sgt. Dix provided help to band leader Benny Torsey when he came to perform at Dix's camp. When trumpet player Ken Hardin proved to be replaced by Fritz, a Nazi spy who tried to assassinate a general during their performance, Dix discovered how Hardin had rigged up one of the spotlights to shoot the general. Dix alerted the Military Police and he caught Fritz and his cohorts.

(U.S.A. Comics I#12/5 (fb)) - Sgt. Dix participated in the capture of the Sunda Islands in the Pacific from the Japanese. A cameraman assisted them in defeating the Japanese. A filmreel was made about it.

(U.S.A. Comics I#13/5) - Sgt. Dix rescued Major Wayne from Nazi spies led by Schenkel who had captured him.

(Amazing Comics I#1/5) - Sgt. Dix happened by the Barnes estate when the family was being targeted for death by the Voice of Doom, a masked figure who sent warnings to the family over their radio. Dix had his friend Tom from the Signal Corps trace the Voice of Doom's broadcasts to a shack. Although the Voice of Doom used a trap to shock Dix with electrical current, Dix survived and stopped the Voice of Doom from killing the remaining members of the Barnes family, revealing the criminal was really Mr. Avery, the Barnes' attorney.

(Kid Komics I#6/5) - Sgt. Dix was placed in charge a paratroop school. When one of the paratroopers turned up dead from poison, Dix investigated the murder. Dix discovered the vendor whose newsstand was nearby the paratroop school was Ludwig Kratz, a Nazi spy, and had poisoned the paratrooper with a needle gun. To draw him out, Dix went on a paratroop exercise but wore a bulletproof vest so the needles wouldn't kill him. Discovering the spot where Kratz and his ally had ambushed him, he attacked them and took them prisoner.

(U.S.A. Comics I#14/5) - Sgt. Dix observed a Japanese "ghost plane" that had been captured in the Pacific and brought to his base for exhibition. When the ghost plane attacked the base, Dix discovered the supposed Chinese pilot who claimed to have captured the plane was really a Japanese pilot and he'd been piloting it in attacks on the base. Dix unmasked the pilot and crashed the ghost plane. Although his superior offered to send him to the Air Force, Dix declined.

Comments: Created by an unidentified writer and artist.

   

    He was suddenly blond in U.S.A. Comics I#6 and remained that way.

    This profile was completed on 03/24/2026 but its publication was delayed, as it was intended for the Appendix's 25th anniversary celebratory event.

Profile by Prime Eternal.

CLARIFICATIONS:
Sgt. Dix should not be confused with:

images: (without ads)
U.S.A. Comics I#5/8, page 2, panel 7 (main)
U.S.A. Comics I#5/8, page 4, panel 3 (face)

Appearances:
U.S.A. Comics I#4/4 (May, 1942) - unidentified writer, unidentified artist, Stan Lee (editor)
U.S.A. Comics I#5/8 (Summer, 1942) - unidentified writer, unidentified artist, Stan Lee (editor)
U.S.A. Comics I#6/9 (December, 1942) - Roy Garn (writer), Frank Borth (artist), Stan Lee (editor)
U.S.A. Comics I#8/8 (May, 1943) - unidentified writer, Edward Ryan (artist), Vince Fago (editor)
U.S.A. Comics I#9/6 (July, 1943) - unidentified writer, unidentified artist, Vince Fago (editor)
U.S.A. Comics I#10/5 (September, 1943) - unidentified writer, unidentified artist, Vince Fago (editor)
U.S.A. Comics I#11/5 (January, 1944) - unidentified writer, unidentified artist, Vince Fago (editor)
U.S.A. Comics I#12/5 (Spring, 1944) - unidentified writer, unidentified artist, Vince Fago (editor)
U.S.A. Comics I#13/5 (Summer, 1944) - unidentified writer, unidentified artist, Vince Fago (editor)
Amazing Comics I#1/5 (Fall, 1944) - unidentified writer, Allen Bellman (penciler), Vince Alascia (inker), Vince Fago (editor)
Kid Komics I#6/5 (Fall, 1944) - Otto Binder (writer), Allen Bellman (penciler), unidentified inker, Vince Fago (editor)
U.S.A. Comics I#14/5 (Fall, 1944) - unidentified writer, unidentified artist, Vince Fago (editor)

First posted: 09/20/2026
Last updated: 03/24/2026

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