Marvel Mystery Comics #30

(April 1942)

March of the Metal Mobsters (Table of Contents)

Human Torch / comic story / 15 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Carl Burgos

Pencils:

Carl Burgos

Inks:

Carl Burgos

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Human Torch; Toro; The Metal Mobsters (Villains, Introduction [Stephen Cole; others]); Mary Orchid (Introduction); Leslie Garden (Introduction)

Synopsis:

A woman is worried when her fiance disappears so she asks Torch and Toro for help. She tells him that he has developed a plastic metal that may have made him a target for abductors. Torch and Toro encounter men clad in suits made of the stuff and have difficulty subduing them. The woman's fiance turns out to be in one of the suits, but Torch suspects he has been coerced into his actions when he sees welts upon his back. The true villain reveals himself and takes the woman as a hostage to escape. Toro sneaks around behind him and captures him.

Reprisal Revenge (Table of Contents)

Sub-Mariner / comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Bill Everett

Pencils:

Bill Everett

Inks:

Bill Everett

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Sub-Mariner [Namor]; Princess Fen; Nazis (Villains)

Synopsis:

Sub-Mariner almost liberates France.

[The Crank] (Table of Contents)

Vision / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Stan Lee ?

Pencils:

Syd Shores

Inks:

Syd Shores

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Vision; The Crank [Powers](Introduction, Villain, Death); Powers' secretary (Introduction, Death)

Lumps of Death (Table of Contents)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Mickey Spillane

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Reprints:

• in Primal Spillane: Early Stories 1941-1942 (Gryphon Books, 2004 series)

Indexer Notes

Reprint note from Arthur Lortie, August 2008.

The Mystery of the Flying Corpses (Table of Contents)

Patriot / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Al Fagaly

Inks:

Al Fagaly

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Patriot; Dr. Strasser (Villain, Introduction, Death)

The Mystery of the Pharaoh's Eye (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

Ray Gill

Pencils:

Bob Oksner

Inks:

Bob Oksner

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

detective

Characters:

Terry Vance; Deadline Dawson; Finog (Villain, Introduction)

[The Fairy Dance] (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

Ed Robbins

Pencils:

Ed Robbins

Inks:

Ed Robbins

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

children; fantasy

Characters:

Jimmy Jupiter; The Wump-Jump; Ruffy Rabbit; the Little People (Introduction); the Gnomes (Villains, Introduction)

The House of Slaughter (Table of Contents)

Angel / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Paul Gustavson ?

Inks:

Paul Gustavson ?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Angel; Riesel (Villain, Introduction, Death)