(Fall 1943)
Marvel,
1941 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 60
- Indicia Frequency
- quarterly
- On-sale Date
- 1943-10-06
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Western Fiction Publishing Co. 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, 1943, New Series, Vol. 38, No. 4.
[no title indexed]
Captain America; Human Torch; Namor the Sub-Mariner / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Human Torch; Sub-Mariner [Namor]; Bucky Barnes; Toro; the Nazis (villains)
- Reprints
-
in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners Comics (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 ([November] 2008)
-
Bloody Talons of the Feathered Fiends!
Human Torch / comic story / 12 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Human Torch [Jim Hammond]; Toro [Thomas Raymond]; Noval; The Vulture (villain; death); Boris (villain, death); Nikki (a vulture; villain); Mongo (villain, death)
- Synopsis
- The Torch and Toro must stop the evil plans of the Vulture, who uses his trained birds to drop incendiary eggs on factories.
- Reprints
- in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners Comics (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 ([November] 2008)
-
Indexer Notes
Credit additions, some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 3-1-09.
Kioto, the Mad Jap!
Captain America / comic story / 12 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bucky [Bucky Barnes]; Setgeant Duffy; Kioto (introduction; villain; death)
- Synopsis
- A mad Japanese is killing American soldiers on a remote island and dropping their bodies near an American camp. Cap and Bucky get a tip where the soldiers are being held and head out to rescue them, only to get captured themselves.
- Reprints
- in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners Comics (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 ([November] 2008)
-
Indexer Notes
Pencil revision from Al Bellman to ?. Notes, some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 3-1-09.
Alibi for Grim Deceit!
Namor the Sub-Mariner / comic story / 12 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Sub-Mariner [Prince Namor]; Betty Dean; Marshall Kronin (introduction; villain); Admiral Roeter (villain); the Nazis (villains)
- Synopsis
- Betty has been kidnapped by the Nazis, so Namor decides to pretend that he has joined the enemy and arrange for the Nazis to successfully stop American convoy operations in order to save her.
- Reprints
- in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners Comics (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 ([November] 2008)
-
Indexer Notes
Some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 3-1-09.
The Silver Buck
text story / 2 pages
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Bert; Johnnie (villain); Pat (villain); Pete James; Lt. Reynolds
- Synopsis
- Bert, a civilian guard for military warehouses, counters the attempts by two individuals to get into them, one of whom lost his "lucky" dollar.
- Reprints
- in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners Comics (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 ([November] 2008)
-
Indexer Notes
Sequence, synopsis and all info added by Craig Delich 3-1-09.
[The Rescue of the Partisan's Sister]
The Destroyer / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Destroyer [Keen Marlow]; Frank Piraud; Ruth Piraud; Colonel von Bitters (villain)
- Synopsis
- The Nazis have captured the sister of the French underground leader, Frank Piraud, but the Destroyer visualizes a way to stop the Nazi threat and rescue his sister.
- Reprints
- in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners Comics (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 ([November] 2008)
-
Indexer Notes
Some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 3-1-09.
Captain America Badges Have Gone to War!
War Savings Stamps / advertisement / 1 page
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Characters
- Captain America; Bucky
- Synopsis
- Illustrated ad announcing that, for the duration of the war, no more Sentinels of Liberty badges will be produced because the metal is needed by the government to help produce ammunition, tanks, planes, guns and ships. And the Sentinels of Liberty Club is no longer accepting dimes to join until further notice, and readers are encouraged to now use those dimes to buy War Savings Stamps.
Indexer Notes
Sequence, synopsis and all info added by Craig Delich 3-1-09.
The Terror of Triple Destruction!
Whizzer / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Whizzer [Jack Robinson]; May; Henry; Gabby; Triple Destruction (introduction; villain); Hans (Triple Destruction's aide; introduction; villain); Triple Destruction's unnamed aide (introduction; villain)
- Synopsis
- The Whizzer must meet the challenge of Triple Destruction, a master Nazi saboteur who has a fiendish plan to simultaneously destroy three war plans at the same time.
- Reprints
- in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners Comics (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 ([November] 2008)
- in Miss America Comics 70th Anniversary Special (Marvel, 2009 series) #1 (August 2009)
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Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
Captain America; Human Torch; Namor the Sub-Mariner -
1.
Bloody Talons of the Feathered Fiends!
Human Torch -
2.
Kioto, the Mad Jap!
Captain America -
3.
Alibi for Grim Deceit!
Namor the Sub-Mariner -
4.
The Silver Buck
-
5.
[The Rescue of the Partisan's Sister]
The Destroyer -
6.
Captain America Badges Have Gone to War!
War Savings Stamps -
7.
The Terror of Triple Destruction!
Whizzer
This issue was modified by, among others
- Steve Dasinger
- Craig Delich
- Gregory Fischer
- Del Gruber
- Lou Mazzella
- Mike Nielsen
- Mark Q
- Tony R. Rose
- Per Sandell
- Richard Thomson
- Jim Van Dore
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