Marvel Mystery Comics #37

(November 1942)

The Fingerprints of Doom (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Harry Sahle

Inks:

Harry Sahle

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Stumpy (Villain; Intro)

Synopsis:

Ex-convicts with a grudge for the city officials whom they blame for their incarceration hatch a plot for revenge. They frame an ex-governor for kidnapping and they also frame a bank president of robbing his own vault by getting the intended victim to handle something which they make fake sets of fingerprints off and leave at crime scenes. They are planning to frame the mayor when Torch and Toro figure out the crooks behind the scheme and apprehend them.

The Copper Plague (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Carl Pfeufer

Inks:

Carl Pfeufer

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Princess Fen; Adolf Hitler (Villain); Captain Kornstalk (Villain; Intro; Death)

Synopsis:

Namor gets a head wound in this story.

His Halloween Adventure (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:

Ghosts (Intro); Evil spirits (Villain; Intro)

Scram, Bugs! (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 Patriot Returns the Dough to the USO (Table of Contents)

Patriot / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Al Fagaly

Inks:

Al Fagaly

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Dead-End Dynamite (Table of Contents)

Vision / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Syd Shores

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Joe Marone (Villain; Intro); Toughie (Villain; Intro); other crooks

The Case of the Invisible Clue (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; Lana Love (Intro)

The Case of Marvello the Mystic (Table of Contents)

Angel / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Roy Garn ?

Pencils:

Gustav Schrotter

Inks:

Gustav Schrotter

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Marvello (Villain; Intro)