Marvel Mystery Comics #13

(November 1940)

Cut-Throat Justice (Table of Contents)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Andrew McWhiney (signed)

Pencils:

Harry Ramsey [as H.R.] (signed)

Inks:

Harry Ramsey [as H.R.] (signed)

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Captain McGraw; Warden Dawes; Danny the Dud (villain, death); Sam the Barber (villain)

Synopsis:

As Danny the Dud is being transferred to "the big house", he thinks of his ex-partner whom he double-crossed and sent up the river. Now, as he sits in the barber's chair in prison, ready to get his first shave, the last thing he sees is that ex-partner with a razor in his hand!

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• in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics (Marvel, 2004 series) #4 (2009)

Indexer Notes

Found on the inside front and back covers.

[Terror In the Subway] (Table of Contents)

The Human Torch / comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Carl Burgos (signed)

Pencils:

Carl Burgos (signed)

Inks:

Carl Burgos (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

The Human Torch [Jim Hammond]; un-named Mayor; Captain Rawlins (Policeman); Reiss (villain, introduction); Mr. Morton (villain, introduction, subway builder)

Synopsis:

A subway builder loses both of his sons to cave-ins while constructing the tunnels, causing him to lose his mind and seek revenge, wanting to wreck trains so they would distubs his son's graves within the tunnel's walls. But he is confined by those whom he hires to help him accomplish the task and the Torch must stop them or else!

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• in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics (Marvel, 2004 series) #4 (2009)

[Smashing the Island Invasion] (Table of Contents)

The Sub-Mariner / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Bill Everett (signed)

Pencils:

Bill Everett (signed)

Inks:

Bill Everett (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

Bill Everett

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

The Sub-Mariner [Prince Namor]; Dorma; Princess Fen; Toro (an Atlantean tailor, introduction); The Nazis (villains, some die)

Synopsis:

Namor and Dorma, outfitted in new suits designed to ward off poison gasses, and on their way to Europe to aide in the war efforts, stop off at an island for rest. But they find themselves not only under arrest, but under attack from the Nazis as well.

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• in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics (Marvel, 2004 series) #4 (2009)

[Enter: The Vision] (Table of Contents)

The Vision / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Jack Kirby; Joe Simon

Pencils:

Jack Kirby

Inks:

Jack Kirby

Colors:

?

Letters:

Jack Kirby

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

The Vision [Aarkus] (introduction, origin) (see also issue #23); Dr. Enoch Mason (introduction); Shiela Mason (his daughter, introduction); Mose (Mason's butler); Markham (scientist); "Brains Borelli" (villain); Queenie (villain); Tony (villain, introduction); Bomber (villain, introduction)

Synopsis:

A professor, believing that ghosts and spirits actually inhabit worlds and universes that co-exist with our universe, is set upon by "Brains" Borelli's men during an experiment to prove his theory. The result is a being called Aarkus, Destoyer of Evil, drawn to the laboratory, which helps to save the professor and his daughter from harm.

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• in Marvel Visionaries: Jack Kirby (Marvel, 2004 series) #1 ([October] 2004)
• in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics (Marvel, 2004 series) #4 (2009)
• in Complete Jack Kirby (Pure Imagination, 1997 series) #2 [splash page, plus selected panels]

Indexer Notes

Pencils, inks, and letterer identification by Greg Theakston (Joe Simon removed from inks field).

[Case of the Counterfeit Paintings] (Table of Contents)

Terry Vance / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Ray Gill (signed)

Pencils:

Bob Oksner (signed)

Inks:

Bob Oksner (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

detective

Characters:

Terry Vance; Dr. Watson (a monkey); Deadline Dawson (newspaperman); un-named boss (villain); Slim (villain)

Synopsis:

Terry's discovery of fresh paint on a supposedly vintage oil painting sparks the interest of Terry and his investigation nearly costs him his life.

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• in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics (Marvel, 2004 series) #4 (2009)

[Mystery of the Moon Robots] (Table of Contents)

Electro, the Marvel of the Age / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Steve Dahlman (signed)

Inks:

Steve Dahlman (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Electro; Professor Zog; Dr. Simon Crane (introduction); Betty Crane (his daughter, introduction); Gnorr, Emperor of the Moon (villain, introduction, death)

Synopsis:

The Professor and the Cranes leave Earth for the Moon, but when they send out Electro to investigate the enviornment, he is attacked and captured by moon robots. Zog and the Cranes land and initiate their own attack on the moon people and save the day.

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• in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics (Marvel, 2004 series) #4 (2009)

Indexer Notes

Writer revision from Steve Dahlman to ? made by Craig Delich 2009-7-30. The Who's Who does NOT credit a writer for this strip.

[The Murder of Happy Norton] (Table of Contents)

The Angel / comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Paul Gustavson

Inks:

Paul Gustavson

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

The Angel [Tom Hallaway]; Happy Norton [aka Noland] (introduction, death); Limpy Savoy (villain, death); Rocco (villain); Bumpy (villain); Punchy (villain); Harry (villain)

Synopsis:

The death of a former gang member of the Savoy mob who had chosen to go straight angers the Angel, and he swears to hunt down the men responsible for this death.

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• in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics (Marvel, 2004 series) #4 (2009)

Indexer Notes

Writer revision from Paul Gustavson to ? by Craig Delich 2009-7-30. The Who's Who does NOT indicate a writer for this strip.

[In the New York Jungle] (Table of Contents)

Adventures of Ka-Zar the Great / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Ben Thompson

Inks:

Ben Thompson

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

jungle

Characters:

Ka-Zar [David Rand]; Zar (a lion); Ruth Wilson; Dr. Wilson

Synopsis:

Now in America, Kazar is taken in by the Police and escapes, but through the efforts of the Wilson's, is put into their custody. But Ka-Zar feels he must free Zar as well from behind bars in the zoo, and so he makes his way there to free him.

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• in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics (Marvel, 2004 series) #4 (2009)

Indexer Notes

Continued next issue. Writer revision from Ben Thompson to ? by Craig Delich 2009-7-30. The Who's Who does NOT list a writer for this strip.