All-Winners Comics #19

(Fall 1946)

The Crime of the Ages! (Chapter 1) (Table of Contents)

All-Winners Squad / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Bill Finger

Pencils:

Syd Shores

Inks:

Al Avison

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

D-376

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

The All-Winners Squad [Captain America [Steve Rogers] (see note for Chapter 7); Bucky [Bucky Barnes] (see note for Chapter 7); Human Torch [Jim Hammond]; Toro; Namor the Sub-Mariner; Whizzer [Robert Frank]; Miss America [Madeline Joyce]]; Isbisa [Meke] (villain, introduction); Professor Saba (villain, introduction, museum curator)

Synopsis:

The All-Winners Squad is hurriedly called to meet with the curator of a museum, whose exhibit, "The Ages of Mankind", has been smashed. In addition, a note has been left, signed by the mysterious Isbisa, who has challenged the members to follow up various clues he has left with each part of the exhibit in a winner-take-all battle. To make matters graver, Ibisa has left a spurious clue behind, intimating that Prince Namor is a part of the enemy camp.

Reprinted:

• in Fantasy Masterpieces (Marvel, 1966 series) #10
• in Timely Presents: All-Winners (Marvel, 1999 series) #[nn] (1999)
• in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners Comics (Marvel, 2005 series) #4 (2011)

The Age of Bronze! (Chapter 2) (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

Bill Finger

Pencils:

Vince Alascia

Inks:

Bob Powell

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Captain America [Steve Rogers] (see note for Chapter 7); Bucky [Bucky Barnes] (see note for Chapter 7); Isbisa (villain); Porky (villain, introduction); Cellini (villain, introduction)

Synopsis:

Cap and Bucky head to a museum of art to locate a valuable piece of bronze art and find the "Idol With the Starry Eyes".....a bronze idol that actually has star sapphires for eyes. When a gang infects the idol with "bronze disease", Cap figures out the crooks are planning to hijack the idol as it is shipped off for electrolysis treatment, only to discover the idol is a reed herring and the crooks really want to valuable art on display.

Reprinted:

• in Fantasy Masterpieces (Marvel, 1966 series) #10
• in Timely Presents: All-Winners (Marvel, 1999 series) #[nn] (1999)
• in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners Comics (Marvel, 2005 series) #4 (2011)

The Iron Age! (Chapter 3) (Table of Contents)

The Whizzer / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Bill Finger

Pencils:

Al Avison

Inks:

Al Gabriele

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

The Whizzer [Robert Frank]; Cameron (movie director); Clark (movie actor); Isbisa (villain); Shut-Eye (villain, introduction)

Synopsis:

Whizzer arrives at the movie set for a film involving the life of notorious train robber, Mal Brennings, and the director mentions that the old railroad locomotive was secured for the film that originally had been robbed of the non-recovered gold on board. Some of Isbisa's men attempt to rob the train again for real, but it is the Whizzer who discovers the missing gold under the planks of the locomotive's cab.

Reprinted:

• in Fantasy Masterpieces (Marvel, 1966 series) #10
• in Timely Presents: All-Winners (Marvel, 1999 series) #[nn] (1999)
• in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners Comics (Marvel, 2005 series) #4 (2011)

The Steel Age (Chapter 4) (Table of Contents)

The Human Torch / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Bill Finger

Pencils:

Al Avison

Inks:

Don Rico

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

The Human Torch [Jim Hammond]; Bobby Lee (a policewoman, introduction); Isbisa (villain); James Flore (villain, introduction, architect)

Synopsis:

The Torch is lured into a trap, but is rescued by a lady policewoman who is engaged to a detective that wants her to quit the force. However, she refuses to do so until she can solve one important case, and the Torch offers to help her do just that. The case: why does a newly constructed bank have a secret entrance that connects to a sewage tunnel?

Reprinted:

• in Fantasy Masterpieces (Marvel, 1966 series) #10
• in Timely Presents: All-Winners (Marvel, 1999 series) #[nn] (1999)
• in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners Comics (Marvel, 2005 series) #4 (2011)

Pearls of Wisdom (Table of Contents)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Moffet (jewelry store owner); Gilleran (detective)

Synopsis:

The owner of Moffet Jewelry is exasperated because he has the largest supply of pearls in the area, but other jewelers are selling their pearls at half the price and nearly bankrupting Moffet. So he hires a detective named Gilleran to discover why his competitors are selling their pearls so cheaply.

Reprinted:

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

The Stone Age (Chapter 5) (Table of Contents)

Miss America / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Bill Finger

Pencils:

Syd Shores

Inks:

Vince Alascia

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Miss America [Madeline Joyce]; John (Millstone Chief of Police); Isbisa (villain); the Calcium Master (villain, introduction, death)

Synopsis:

Miss America heads to Millstone to visit the Chief of Police, but finds him turned to stone. When she finds a note from someone called the Calcium Master, who claims to be able to restore him to life for $10,000, she smells a rat and tracks down the vile sculptor responsible.

Reprinted:

• in Fantasy Masterpieces (Marvel, 1966 series) #10
• in Timely Presents: All-Winners (Marvel, 1999 series) #[nn] (1999)
• in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners Comics (Marvel, 2005 series) #4 (2011)

Don't Miss........ (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Pencils:

Lee King [as Lee] (signed)

Inks:

Lee King [as Lee] (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bucky [Bucky Barnes]; the Red Skull; The Human Torch [Jim Hammond]; Toro; Namor the Sub-Mariner; Miss America [Madeline Joyce]; Isbisa [Meke]; other heroes and villains

Reprinted:

• in Timely Presents: All-Winners (Marvel, 1999 series) #[nn] (1999)
• in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners Comics (Marvel, 2005 series) #4 (2011)

Indexer Notes

Illustrated promotional ad for Timely's comic magazines: Captain America, The Human Torch, Marvel Mystery Comics, The Young Allies, Sub-Mariner, and All Winners. Sequence added by Craig Delich 2011-12-28.

The Ice Age! (Chapter 6) (Table of Contents)

Sub-Mariner / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Bill Finger

Pencils:

Bob Powell

Inks:

Al Avison

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Namor the Sub-Mariner; Toro; Isbisa (villain); Black Patch (villain, introduction)

Synopsis:

Toro joins Namor as the Prince heads up to a major Eskimo trading post to deal with a band of cut-throats who are using their whaling ship as a hideout for their fur hijacking mob!

Reprinted:

• in Fantasy Masterpieces (Marvel, 1966 series) #10
• in Timely Presents: All-Winners (Marvel, 1999 series) #[nn] (1999)
• in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners Comics (Marvel, 2005 series) #4 (2011)

Conclusion! (Chapter 7) (Table of Contents)

All-Winners Squad / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Bill Finger

Pencils:

Al Avison

Inks:

Al Bellman

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

The All-Winners Squad [Captain America [Steve Rogers] (see note); Bucky [Bucky Barnes] (see note); Human Torch [Jim Hammond]; Toro; Namor the Sub-Mariner; Miss America [Madeline Joyce]; Whizzer [Robert Frank]]; Isbisa [Meke] (villain)

Synopsis:

When the All-Winners Squad members reconvene after their various adventures, they discover Isbisa's challenge to them was a red herring, so that the master criminal would be free to pursue his main crime: the stealing of the atomic bomb, and to accomplish his main goal: to become dictator of the world!

Reprinted:

• in Fantasy Masterpieces (Marvel, 1966 series) #10
• in Timely Presents: All-Winners (Marvel, 1999 series) #[nn] (1999)
• in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners Comics (Marvel, 2005 series) #4 (2011)

Indexer Notes

Chronologically, the next All-Winners Squad story is What If? (Marvel, 1977 series) #4, which retroactively establishes that the post-war Captain America and Bucky here are William Naslund (a.k.a. The Spirit of '76) and Fred Davis. In that story, Naslund is killed and replaced as Captain America by The Patriot (Jeff Mace).