(March 1945)

Marvel, 1943 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.10 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
quarterly
On-sale Date
1944-11-30
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Daring Comics Inc.
Editing
Vince Fago (editor)

Issue Notes

The indicia mistakenly says, "March, 1944 issue."

The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1945, New Series, Vol. 40, No. 1, p3-4.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Captain America; Human Torch / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Alex Schomburg
Inks
Alex Schomburg
Colors
?

Genre
superhero

Yellow Claw and the Mole Men (Table of Contents: 1)

Captain America / comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Vince Alascia
Inks
Allen Bellman
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
superhero
Characters
Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Yellow Claw (villain, not the 1950's villain); Yellow Claw's Mole-Men (first appearance, villains)
Synopsis
Yellow Claw creates a chemical which dramatically increases the size of men's hands, making them into Mole Men which he uses to tunnel under munitions plants and wreck them. When he plans to use explosives in a lava pit to create a new volcano under a munitions plant, Captain America and Bucky see that they meet their doom inside the lava pit.

The Merchant of Death (Table of Contents: 2)

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

Script
?
Pencils
Allen Bellman
Inks
Allen Bellman
Colors
?
Letters
?

Job Number
R-84
Genre
superhero
Characters
Human Torch; Luke Bowie; Luke Bowie's gang (first appearance, villains, all die)

Master of Murders (Table of Contents: 3)

The Destroyer / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Chad Grothkopf
Inks
Al Gabriele
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
superhero
Characters
Captain Suicide (villain, introduction, death?); the Japanese (villains)
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    Captain America; Human Torch
  2. 1. Yellow Claw and the Mole Men
    Captain America
  3. 2. The Merchant of Death
    Human Torch
  4. 3. Master of Murders
    The Destroyer
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Katie
  • Henry Andrews
  • Bill Borre
  • Mark Bowen
  • Bob Cherry
  • Peter Croome
  • Gregory Fischer
  • Juan Gonzalez
  • Rob Johnson