All-Winners Comics #15

(Spring 1945)

The Man Who Killed Himself (Table of Contents: 1)

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

Script

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Pencils

Carl Pfeufer

Inks

Carl Pfeufer

Colors

?

Letters

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Genre

superhero

Characters

Sub-Mariner [Prince Namor]; Roy Winters (introduction, death); Betty Dean; Johnson (investor); Slugger (villain, introduction); White (villain, introduction)

Synopsis

When an inventor friend of Namor's is found dead with a suicide note, Namor tracks down a businessman who forced him to write out the note and then murdered him so he could steal his new boat super-speed engine attachment design.

Reprints

• in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners Comics (Marvel, 2005 series) #4 ([November] 2011)

The Masked Trio of Death! (Table of Contents: 2)

Captain America / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

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Pencils

Vince Alascia

Inks

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Colors

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Letters

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Genre

superhero

Characters

Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bucky [Bucky Barnes]; Lupo (villain, introduction); three apes (villains, introduction, all die)

Synopsis

A grim Captain America and Bucky attempt to track down the nefarious Lupo and his three killer apes who have murdered eleven people during various robberies, and who has challenged the duo to catch him.

Reprints

• in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners Comics (Marvel, 2005 series) #4 ([November] 2011)

Indexer Notes

Ink credits originally given to Mike Sekowsky in error (per Tony Isabella, 2006-3-30).

A Strange Story (Table of Contents: 3)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

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Letters

typeset

Genre

adventure

Characters

Ed Walton (editor of The Clarion); Ellen Gray; Dan Jordan (death); un-named man (villain?)

Synopsis

When the editor of a local newspaper offers $50 to any one who would spend the night at the old Tyler mansion, in which Matt Tyler had killed his wife and then himself, two men, who felt hatred for each other, volunteer with weird results.

Reprints

• in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners Comics (Marvel, 2005 series) #4 ([November] 2011)

[Timed for Teens] (Table of Contents: 4)

Miss America / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

? (photograph)

Inks

? (photograph)

Letters

typeset

Genre

romance; superhero

Characters

Miss America

Synopsis

Promotional ad for the May, 1945 issue of Miss America magazine, with a subscription coupon.

Indexer Notes

Sequence added by Craig Delich 2011-26-11.

Lightning Strikes Twice! (Table of Contents: 5)

Whizzer / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

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Pencils

Lou Ferstadt

Inks

Lou Ferstadt

Colors

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Letters

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Genre

superhero

Characters

The Whizzer [Jack Robinson]; un-named Nazi spy (villain, introduction); un-named convicts (villains, introduction for all)

Synopsis

A Nazi spy has been ordered to steal a robot bomb, and concocts a scheme to use escaped convicts to help him steal the weapon and use it to propel them to a meeting with a Nazi submarine.

Reprints

• in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners Comics (Marvel, 2005 series) #4 ([November] 2011)

Juke Box Murder Case (Table of Contents: 6)

Let's Play Detective / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

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Pencils

Allen Bellman

Inks

Allen Bellman

Colors

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Letters

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Genre

detective-mystery

Characters

Mike Trapp (detective); Brent Cummings (foreign correspondent, death); Scott (villain, news reporter)

Synopsis

Detective Trapp must investigate the death of a foreign correspondent, who was killed by a shot fired from a juke box!

Reprints

• in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners Comics (Marvel, 2005 series) #4 ([November] 2011)