Marvel Mystery Comics #28

(February 1942)

Still on Top! (Table of Contents)

Captain America Comics / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Pencils:

Al Avision

Inks:

Al Avison

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bucky [Bucky Barnes]

Synopsis:

Illustrated house ad, with cover, promoting Captain America Comics #13 (February, 1942).

Reprints:

• in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics (Marvel, 2004 series) #7 [Regular Edition] ([July] 2012)

Indexer Notes

Sequence added by Craig Delich 2-12-8-20. Found on the inside front cover.

The Poison Pill Suicides (Table of Contents)

Human Torch / comic story / 15 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]; Toro; Mr. Martin (death); un-named Police Commissioner; Izan (villain, introduction); five un-named henchmen of Izan (villains, all die)

Synopsis:

Torch and Toro are invited to lead the Coney Island Mardi Gras pageant, but a henchman of a gunrunner named Izan succeeds in interrupting the event with a bomb before committing suicide with a poison pill rather than facing his boss's judgment to be drowned for failure. Izan captures Torch and Toro with gas and places them into glass coffin tubes which he plans to dump into the sea. Discovering a leak in the tube, the Torch flames on and superheats the glass so that it shatters when it hits the water. He frees Toro and they capture Izan.

Reprints:

• in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics (Marvel, 2004 series) #7 [Regular Edition] ([July] 2012)

Indexer Notes

The Masterworks edition lists the credits as Carl Burgos with Harry Sahle.

The Flying Dutchman (Table of Contents)

The Sub-Mariner / comic story / 12 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]; Mr. Larson (sailor); Rogers (naval diver); Baby Dean McCarthy (introduction, Betty Dean's sister and Slug's wife); The Falcon (villain, introduction, death); Chuck "Slug" McCarthy (villain, introduction, reforms); Oliver (villain)

Synopsis:

Intrigued by four ship sinkings by a mysterious 18th-century ghost ship, Namor figures that the tremendous loss of gold shipments carried aboard those ships must be the work of a 20th-century pirate who has bolted the ghost ship to a submarine. Walking into a trap, Namor is rescued by the sister of Policewoman Betty Dean, who, along with her husband, are being coerced into helping the Falcon.

Reprints:

• in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics (Marvel, 2004 series) #7 [Regular Edition] ([July] 2012)

The Surprise Success of the Century! (Table of Contents)

Young Allies Comics / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Pencils:

Syd Shores

Inks:

Syd Shores

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

The Young Allies [[Bucky Barnes; Toro; Tubby Tinkle; "Knuckles" Percy Bartwell; Washington Vanderbilt Jefferson; Whitewash Jones]; the Nazis

Synopsis:

Illustrated promotional ad, with cover, to The Young Allies Comics #2 (Winter, 1941), with on sale date listed as November 25, 1941.

Reprints:

• in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics (Marvel, 2004 series) #7 [Regular Edition] ([July] 2012)

Indexer Notes

Sequence added by Craig Delich 2012-8-20.

[The Soul Stealer] (Table of Contents)

The Vision / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Joe Simon; Jack Kirby

Pencils:

Jack Kirby; David Walters

Inks:

David Walters

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

The Vision [Aarkus]; Guardian of the Spirit World (introduction); Dr. Zadig; Dr. Parker; Dr. Schlissel; un-named police chief; Dr. Igor Korbeau (villain, introduction, death)

Synopsis:

The Vision comes to Earth to battle the "Mad Man of Science", Dr. Korbeau, who has discovered the secret of man's soul and how to remove it. Korbeau removes the souls of seven of his scientific competitors, but the Vision takes the scientists to the spirit world to reclaim their souls before a showdown with the evil doctor.

Reprints:

• in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics (Marvel, 2004 series) #7 [Regular Edition] ([July] 2012)

Indexer Notes

The Masterworks edition lists writer(s) as unknown, pencils by Al Avison with Ernie Hart, and inks by Syd Shores with George Klein.

The Sea of Grassy Death (Table of Contents)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Mickey Spillane (signed)

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Jack; Slim; the Germans (villains)

Synopsis:

Two sailors run into a storm and find themselves marooned in the Sargasso Sea, facing yet a greater terror that would prove dangerous to Allied shipping.

Reprints:

• in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics (Marvel, 2004 series) #7 [Regular Edition] ([July] 2012)
• in Primal Spillane: Early Stories 1941-1942 (Gryphon Books, 2004 series)

Indexer Notes

First reprint note from Arthur Lortie, August 2008. The second page has the Statement of Ownership, which lists Martin Goodman as Managing Editor and Abraham Goodman as Business Manager.

The Green-Faced Man (Table of Contents)

The Patriot / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Al Fagaly (signed)

Inks:

Al Fagaly (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

The Patriot [Jeffrey Mace]; Casey (Daily Bugle reporter); Mary Morgan (Daily Bugle reporter); Green Face [Reibel] (villain, introduction); Fritz (villain)

Synopsis:

The celebrated trial of the Green-Faced Man is interrupted when the prisoner's gang frees him with an attack of gas. However, the Patriot tracks him down to dispense well-earned justice.

Reprints:

• in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics (Marvel, 2004 series) #7 [Regular Edition] ([July] 2012)

Keywords:

"Daily Bugle"

The Case of the Deadly Letters (Table of Contents)

Terry Vance the School Boy Sleuth / 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-mystery

Characters:

Terry Vance; Drt. Watson (a monkey); Deadline Dawson; Detective Jenks; Aubrey De Woode (Hollywood director; death); un-named butler of Aubrey de Woode; Gordon De Wolfe (villain, introduction, nephew of Aubrey de Woode)

Synopsis:

Terry and Deadline suspect that Hollywood director Aubrey de Woode did not commit suicide, but was murdered, and they suspect the dead man's nephew, even though the police have ruled the young man out as a suspect.

Reprints:

• in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics (Marvel, 2004 series) #7 [Regular Edition] ([July] 2012)

Indexer Notes

The Masterworks edition lists Oksner as providing layouts while the finished penciler and inker are unknown.

Strange Adventures in the Land of Nowhere (Table of Contents)

Jimmy Jupiter / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Ed Robbins ? [as E. Robbins] (signed)

Pencils:

Ed Robbins [as E. Robbins] (signed)

Inks:

Ed Robbins ? [as E. Robbins] (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

children; fantasy

Characters:

Jimmy Jupiter (introduction); inhabitants of the Land of Nowhere [Elmer Tree; un-named woman; un-named talking trees] (introduction for all); The Wump-Jump (villain, introduction, a dragon)

Synopsis:

Jimmy is taken up in an airplane but forgets to fasten his safety belt, and falls out of the plane, landing on a soft cloud. He discovers he is in the Land of Nowhere and the only way back to Earth is to locate the Mountain of Wunt

Reprints:

• in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics (Marvel, 2004 series) #7 [Regular Edition] ([July] 2012)

Indexer Notes

The Who's Who lists Robbins as penciler only on this strip.

The Horror of the Haunted Cathedral (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

The Angel [Thomas Halloway]; the Russians; zombie Monk; General Henchel (villain, introduction, dies twice); his army of zombies (villains, introduction for all, all die twice); the Nazis (villains)

Synopsis:

General Henchel faces the prospect of suicide because of his blunder along the German-Russian Front, but instead he makes a hasty departure by submarine to America. Arriving in the swamps of Louisiana, he decides to hide out in a mysterious cathedral, supposedly haunted, and is killed when he plays an organ, but is brought back as a zombie (like other former inhabitants of the edifice), leading his Army of the Dead out to kill Americans. The Angel discovers a zombie Monk at the cathedral and learns from him how to deal with the dreadful Army.

Reprints:

• in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics (Marvel, 2004 series) #7 [Regular Edition] ([July] 2012)