Marvel Mystery Comics #31

(May 1942)

Scuttle the Japs (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

Carl Burgos

Pencils:

Carl Burgos

Inks:

Carl Burgos

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Admiral Nodope (villain, introduction, death); Fooey (villain, introduction); Japanese (villains, many deaths)

Synopsis:

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese send a carrier with planes to bomb San Francisco. Torch and Toro destroy all the planes but one and trail it back to the carrier. Toro wants to sink the carrier, but Torch has them stowaway aboard Admiral Nodope's ship so that they can free the marines who have been taken prisoner back at port. When they arrive, Torch and Toro scuttle the carrier and Nodope reports to Fooey, his superior. Fooey demands that Nodope stop the escaping marines and Torch melts the American steel over the Japanese that they bought before the war. Torch burns the snipers alive in their perches and the marines board a boat for home. As they go, Torch leaves a flaming 'V' in the sky above Japan.

The Case of the Jilted Japs, or, They Had a Date At San Diego (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:

The Japanese (villains, many deaths)

Synopsis:

takes place Dec. 11-14, 1941

The Plague of the Jelly Men (Table of Contents)

Vision / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Stan Lee?

Pencils:

Vince Alascia?

Inks:

David Walters?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

The "Jelly Men" (villain, introduction, death, a mass of living protoplasm); the Japanese (villains, many deaths)

Killer's Return (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 Insects of Sudden Death (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:

Otto (villain, introduction, death); the Nazis (villains)

The Mystery of the Murdered Ghost (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:

The Ghost Rider (introduction, death); Roney (villain, introduction, death); Deadline Dawson (guest-star)

In The Land of the Fun People (Table of Contents)

Jimmy Jupiter / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Ed Robbins

Pencils:

Ed Robbins

Inks:

Ed Robbins

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

children; fantasy

Characters:

The Candy Men (introduction); The Gloomy Gusses (villain)

Cargo of Death (Table of Contents)

Angel / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Al Fagaly

Inks:

Al Fagaly

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Gondor (villain, introduction)