(June 1942)

Marvel, 1939 Series
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Volume:
?
Price:
0.10 USD
Pages:
68
Indicia frequency:
?
Indicia Publisher:
Timely Comics, Inc.
Editing:
Stan Lee
Color:
Full Color
Dimensions:
Standard Golden Age U.S. (through about early 1944, narrower thereafter)
Paper Stock:
Newsprint
Binding:
Saddle-Stitched
Publishing Format:
Monthly (through July 1944, variable thereafter)

"The Human Torch blazes thru to halt the Jap attack!" (Table of Contents)

The Human Torch / cover / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:
?
Pencils:
Al Gabriele
Inks:
Al Gabriele
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

Content Information

Genre:
superhero
Characters:
Human Torch
Keywords:
heavy machine guns; Japanese Imperial Army; parachutes; paratroops; stereotyping of Japanese; World War II

The Statues of Doom (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:
Frank Portl (villain, introduction)
Synopsis:
Frank Portl, a sculptor, murders his secretary when she discovers that he has been smuggling military secrets to spies inside of his statutes. Torch and Toro deduce what had occurred at the scene of the crime and turn him over to police.

Fingers of Death (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:
Lloyd V. Jaquet [ as Elvey Jay]
Pencils:
Carl Pfeufer
Inks:
Carl Pfeufer
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

Content Information

Genre:
superhero
Characters:
Von Grubb (villain, introduction)

The Secret of the Sharks (Table of Contents)

Vision / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
Stan Lee?
Pencils:
Vince Alascia?
Inks:
?
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

Content Information

Genre:
superhero
Characters:
Leila (introduction); The Japanese (villains, deaths)

Last Ride (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.


In the Land of the Fun People (Part 2) (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:
Captain Cookie (introduction); the China People of Tea Land (introductions); The Bull in the China Shoppe (villain, introduction); the Licorice Men (villain, introduction)

The Mystery of the Phantom Robberies (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-mystery
Characters:
Deadline Dawson (guest-star); The Phantom Burglar [Dr. Mefis] (villain, introduction)

The Iron-Clawed Monster (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:
The Japanese (villains)

The Ogre and the Man-Eating Boboes (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:
The Ogre (villain, introduction, death); his Boboes (villains, introductions, deaths)

Editing

Table of Contents

  1. 0. "The Human Torch blazes thru to halt the Jap attack!"
    The Human Torch
  2. 1. The Statues of Doom
    Human Torch
  3. 2. Fingers of Death
    Sub-Mariner
  4. 3. The Secret of the Sharks
    Vision
  5. 4. Last Ride
  6. 5. In the Land of the Fun People (Part 2)
    Jimmy Jupiter
  7. 6. The Mystery of the Phantom Robberies
    Terry Vance
  8. 7. The Iron-Clawed Monster
    Patriot
  9. 8. The Ogre and the Man-Eating Boboes
    Angel
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