Marvel Mystery Comics #32

(June 1942)

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

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)