(March 1941)
- Volume:
- ?
- Price:
- 0.10 USD
- Pages:
- 68
- Indicia frequency:
- monthly
- Indicia Publisher:
- Timely Publications
- Editing:
- Joe Simon
- Format:
- Color; Standard Golden Age US; saddle-stitched; Newsprint ; [mostly] monthly series
Issue Notes
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
- in The Complete Jack Kirby (Pure Imagination, 1997 series) #1940-1941 [2] (1997)
- in Golden Age of Marvel (Marvel, 1997 series) #[nn] ([December ?] 1997)
["Fighting Side-By-Side"]
The Human Torch and the Sub-Mariner / cover / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Alex Schomburg
- Inks:
- Alex Schomburg
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- superhero
- Characters:
- Sub-Mariner [Prince Namor]; Human Torch [Jim Hammond]; the Nazis
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics (Marvel, 2004 series) #5 ([December] 2010)
Indexer Notes
The cover features an illustration of The Human Torch Comics #3 [#2].
[no title indexed]
Captain America / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- various
- Inks:
- various
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- superhero
- Characters:
- Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bucky [Bucky Barnes]; Tuk; The Red Skull
- Synopsis:
- Illustrated house ad for Captain America Comics #1.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics (Marvel, 2004 series) #5 ([December] 2010)
Indexer Notes
Found on the inside front cover.
Fighting Side-By-Side
The Human Torch and Sub-Mariner / comic story / 26 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Carl Burgos (signed); Bill Everett (signed)
- Pencils:
- Carl Burgos (signed); Bill Everett (signed)
- Inks:
- Carl Burgos (signed); Bill Everett (signed)
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- superhero
- Characters:
- The Human Torch [Jim Hammond]; The Sub-Mariner [Prince Namor]; the Nazis (villains); the Japanese (villains)
- Synopsis:
- Japanese and Nazi soldiers are building a tunnel from Siberia to Alaska, so Torch and Subby team-up to put them out of action.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in The Invaders (Marvel, 1975 series) #24 (January 1978) [minus 7 pages; abbreviated from 26 pages]
- in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics (Marvel, 2004 series) #5 ([December] 2010)
Indexer Notes
This story continued from the last issue and continued, in part, in the next issue.
[What's Your Story?]
contest / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Carl Burgos (Torch); Bill Everett (Sub-Mariner)
- Inks:
- Carl Burgos (Torch); Bill Everett (Sub-Mariner)
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Characters:
- The Human Torch [Jim Hammond]; Sub-Mariner [Prince Namor]
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics (Marvel, 2004 series) #5 ([December] 2010)
Indexer Notes
This page introduces a new contest in which readers are shown a picture of Torch and Namor with blank thought balloons, and they are to fill them in [in less than 50 words] with what they think each character is thinking, and then mail the entry back to the editors at Timely Comics before March 1, 1941. The winner will receive a free trip to New York, accompanied by parent or guardian, to sight see, see their favorite cartoonists at work and learn how comic magazines are made.
[Mor the Mighty]
Electro, the Marvel of the Age / comic story / 6 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Steve Dahlman ?
- Pencils:
- Steve Dahlman (signed)
- Inks:
- Steve Dahlman (signed)
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Characters:
- Electro; Professor Zog; Mor the Mighty (villain, death); Zabu (villain, death?)
- Synopsis:
- In order to make himself the Emperor of the Universe, the evil Mor increases the size of his pet cat and sparrows to gigantic proportions to inflict death and destruction upon the world.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics (Marvel, 2004 series) #5 ([December] 2010)
Indexer Notes
I have placed a ? after writer name. There is no clear indication by the Who's Who that Dahlman ever wrote the material he drew.
Thin Ice
Terry Vance / text story / 2 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Ray Gill (signed)
- Pencils:
- Bob Oksner (illustration)
- Inks:
- Bob Oksner (illustration)
- Letters:
- ?; typeset (most)
Content Information
- Genre:
- adventure
- Characters:
- Terry Vance; Dr. Watson (monkey); Deadline Dawson (cub reporter)
- Synopsis:
- Terry uses his new gas powered model plane with skiis to save two children who have plunged through thin ice and are about to drown.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics (Marvel, 2004 series) #5 ([December] 2010)
Indexer Notes
The Masterworks edition lists the artist as unknown.
[War Against a Werewolf]
The Angel / comic story / 9 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Paul Gustavson ?
- Pencils:
- Paul Gustavson (signed)
- Inks:
- Paul Gustavson (signed)
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- superhero
- Characters:
- The Angel [Thomas Halloway]; Bob Harrison; Dr. Roberts; Jean Roberts; Dr. Lin; Singa (villain, death)
- Synopsis:
- The Angel is mystified when a good friend of his, Dr. Roberts, seems overly secretive, and soon discovers why: the doctor's assistant has become a werewolf!
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics (Marvel, 2004 series) #5 ([December] 2010)
Indexer Notes
I have placed a ? behind the writer name. Gustavson is known to have written only his very early filler strips and not the features he drew [based on research information by Jerry Bails in the Who's Who].
[Burk and the Bomber]
Terry Vance, The School Boy Sleuth / comic story / 7 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Ray Gill (signed)
- Pencils:
- Bob Oksner (signed)
- Inks:
- Bob Oksner (signed)
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- detective
- Characters:
- Terry Vance; Dr. Watson (monkey); Deadline Dawson; Burk (prisoner); Claude Kane (villain, factory guard, death); Killer D'Arcy (villain)
- Synopsis:
- Terry and Dr. Watson track down the true person responsible for the death of a Policeman.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics (Marvel, 2004 series) #5 ([December] 2010)
Indexer Notes
The Masterworks edition lists the inker as unknown.
[Hoodlums, Inc.]
The Vision / comic story / 7 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Joe Simon; Jack Kirby
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- Joe Simon
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- superhero
- Characters:
- The Vision [Aarkus]; Hank Steel; Vince Garone (villain, death)
- Synopsis:
- So-called "legitimate" trucking company owner Vince Carone uses every dirty trick in the book to eliminate his competitors in the business.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics (Marvel, 2004 series) #5 ([December] 2010)
- in Complete Jack Kirby (Pure Imagination, 1997 series) #2 [splash page only]
Indexer Notes
The Masterworks edition lists the strip only by Jack Kirby with unknown inker.
[The Legacy of John Rand]
Ka-Zar the Great / comic story / 6 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Ben Thompson ?
- Pencils:
- Ben Thompson (signed)
- Inks:
- Ben Thompson (signed)
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- jungle
- Characters:
- Ka-Zar [David Rand]; Trajah (elephant); Ali (native guide); Winston (explorer and friend of John Rand); Alec Wright (villain, John Rands's attorney, death)
- Synopsis:
- Ka-Zar has to battle the nefarious aims of the attorney of his father, Alec Wright, who forged his name as part owner of Rand's diamond mine.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics (Marvel, 2004 series) #5 ([December] 2010)
Indexer Notes
Ka-Zar figure in splash swiped from cover of FLASH COMICS #8. I have placed a ? behind the writer name. According to all the research Jerry Bails did for the Who's Who, there is no clear evidence that Thompson wrote this strip.
Human Torch pin-up
Human Torch / illustration / 1 page
Credits
- Pencils:
- Alex Schomburg
- Inks:
- Alex Schomburg
- Colors:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- superhero
- Characters:
- The Human Torch [Jim Hammond]
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics (Marvel, 2004 series) #5 ([December] 2010)
Indexer Notes
Found on the back cover.
Editing
Table of Contents
-
1.
[no title indexed]
Captain America -
2.
Fighting Side-By-Side
The Human Torch and Sub-Mariner -
3.
[What's Your Story?]
contest -
4.
[Mor the Mighty]
Electro, the Marvel of the Age -
5.
Thin Ice
Terry Vance -
6.
[War Against a Werewolf]
The Angel -
7.
[Burk and the Bomber]
Terry Vance, The School Boy Sleuth -
8.
[Hoodlums, Inc.]
The Vision -
9.
[The Legacy of John Rand]
Ka-Zar the Great -
10.
Human Torch pin-up
Human Torch
This issue was most recently modified by:
- Henry Andrews
- Tony R. Rose
- Patrick Lemaire
- Mike Nielsen
- Jim Van Dore
- Craig Delich
- Bill Borre
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- Lou Mougin
- Tony R. Rose
- Craig Delich
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