(November 1942)
Marvel,
1939 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1942-09-18
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Timely Comics Inc.
- Editing
- Vince Fago ? (editor)
Issue Notes
The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1942, New Series, Vol. 37, No. 4.
[no title indexed]
Human Torch; Namor the Sub-Mariner / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Human Torch [Jim Hammond]; Sub-Mariner
- Reprints
- Keywords
- bondage; firing squads; Wehrmacht; World War II
in Indexer Notes
Unknown inks per Nick Caputo. Previous indexer credited Syd Shores.
The Fingerprints of Doom
Human Torch / comic story / 12 pages
- 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!
Namor the Sub-Mariner / comic story / 12 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Princess Fen; Adolf Hitler (Villain); Captain Kornstalk (Villain; Intro; Death)
- Synopsis
- Namor gets a head wound in this story.
Indexer Notes
Letters originally credited to "Sam Rosen ?" but this is unlikely since his earliest credits for Marvel seem to be from 1950.
His Halloween Adventure
Jimmy Jupiter / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- children; fantasy-supernatural; superhero
- Characters
- Ghosts (Intro); Evil spirits (Villain; Intro)
Scram, Bugs!
text story / 2 pages
- Script
- Mickey Spillane
- Letters
- typeset
- 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
The Patriot / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Patriot
Dead-End Dynamite
The Vision / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Joe Marone (Villain; Intro); Toughie (Villain; Intro); other crooks
The Case of the Invisible Clue
Terry Vance, the School Boy Sleuth / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- detective-mystery
- Characters
- Deadline Dawson; Lana Love (Intro)
The Case of Marvello the Mystic
The Angel / comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Marvello (Villain; Intro)
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
Human Torch; Namor the Sub-Mariner -
1.
The Fingerprints of Doom
Human Torch -
2.
The Copper Plague!
Namor the Sub-Mariner -
3.
His Halloween Adventure
Jimmy Jupiter -
4.
Scram, Bugs!
-
5.
The Patriot Returns the Dough to the USO
The Patriot -
6.
Dead-End Dynamite
The Vision -
7.
The Case of the Invisible Clue
Terry Vance, the School Boy Sleuth -
8.
The Case of Marvello the Mystic
The Angel
This issue was modified by, among others
- Henry Andrews
- Bill Borre
- Nick Caputo
- Peter Croome
- Del Gruber
- Dan Kocher
- Donald Dale Milne
- Mike Nielsen
- Tony R. Rose
- Richard Thomson
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