(Fall 1945)

Marvel, 1944 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.10 USD
Pages
52
Indicia Frequency
quarterly
On-sale Date
1945-11-22
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Hercules Publishing Corporation
Editing
Stan Lee ? (editor)

Issue Notes

The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1946-47, 3rd Series, Vol. 1, No. 1&2, p106.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Human Torch; Toro; Sub-Mariner / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Allen Simon
Inks
Allen Simon
Colors
?

Genre
superhero

Home Front Renegades (Table of Contents: 1)

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

Script
?
Pencils
Allen Simon
Inks
Allen Simon
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
superhero
Characters
Betty Dean (guest-star); George Reynolds (villain, introduction); Rocky Wilson (villain, introduction); their gangs (villains, introductions)
Synopsis
A businessman looking to make a killing with black market booze and an organized criminal mob gang both get taken down by Sub-Mariner.

Diamond of Death (Table of Contents: 2)

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

Script
?
Pencils
Ken Bald ?
Inks
Al Gabriele; Allen Simon ?
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
superhero
Characters
Betty Dean (guest-star); Nick Finelli (villain); Red (villain); Blood-Lust (villain); other gangsters (villains, introductions); Bobby Tolan (villain, introduction, death)

One Good Turn (Table of Contents: 3)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script
?
Letters
typeset

The Devil's Murder Web (Table of Contents: 4)

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

Script
?
Pencils
Jimmy Thompson
Inks
Jimmy Thompson
Colors
?
Letters
Jimmy Thompson

Genre
superhero
Characters
Lucky Benson (villain, introduction); Luke (villain, introduction); Pete (villain, introduction, death)

The Vanishing Ghost Gun (Table of Contents: 5)

The Destroyer / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

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

Genre
superhero
Characters
Trigger Connolly (villain, introduction, death); Knuckles Bender (villain, introduction, death); Numbers (villain, introduction, death)

Indexer Notes

James Walls' error report (3/6/05) indicates that Al Bellman did not recall pencilling and inking this story.

Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    Human Torch; Toro; Sub-Mariner
  2. 1. Home Front Renegades
    Namor the Sub-Mariner
  3. 2. Diamond of Death
    Namor the Sub-Mariner
  4. 3. One Good Turn
  5. 4. The Devil's Murder Web
    Human Torch
  6. 5. The Vanishing Ghost Gun
    The Destroyer
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