All-Winners Comics #21

(Winter 1946-47)

Menace From the Future World! (Chapter 1) (Table of Contents)

All-Winners Squad / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Otto Binder

Pencils:

Al Avison

Inks:

Charles Nicholas

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

SL-840

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

The All-Winners Squad [(Captain America [Steve Rogers] (see note in Chapter 7); Bucky [Bucky Barnes] (see note in Chapter 7); Human Torch [Jim Hammond]; Toro]; Miss America [Madeline Joyce]; Whizzer [Robert Frank]; Namor the Sub-Mariner)]; Future Man (villain, introduction); Madame Death (villain, introduction)

Synopsis:

Cap calls the All-Winners Squad together to deal with the threat of Future Man, a person from the far future, who has come back to the 20th Century, enlisting the aid of Madame Death and her gang along the way, to pave the way for the migration of his people to Earth, whose sole purpose is to wipe out mankind of today!

Reprinted:

• in Marvel Super-Heroes (Marvel, 1967 series) #17 (November, 1968)
• in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners Comics (Marvel, 2005 series) #4 (2011)

The Green Plague! (Chapter 2) (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

Otto Binder

Pencils:

Vince Alascia

Inks:

Syd Shores

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

SL-840

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Captain America [Steve Rogers] (see note in Chapter 7); Bucky [Bucky Barnes] (see note in Chapter 7); Professor Yalder (scientist, death); Future Man (villain); Madame Death (villain)

Synopsis:

Cap and Bucky arrive in Europe and begin their search for Future Man and Madame Death, who are already in central Europe and have secured a laboratory in which they plan to make Germ Bombs out of future germs unknown in this world to kill off the inhabitants.

Reprinted:

• in Marvel Super-Heroes (Marvel, 1967 series) #17 (November, 1968)
• in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners Comics (Marvel, 2005 series) #4 (2011)

Murder In Slow Motion! (Chapter 3) (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

Otto Binder

Pencils:

Vince Alascia

Inks:

George Klein ?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

SL-840

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

The Whizzer [Robert Frank]; Future Man (villain); Madame Death (villain); the Stiletto Gang (villains, introduction for all)

Synopsis:

After their close call in Europe, Madame Death and Future Man head for Diablo Crater in South America and meet up with the Stiletto Gang, on whom Future Man will use mental waves to seize control of their minds, allowing them to do many scientific feats. Future Man also creates a Slow-Down Machine, whose rays, when played on the populace and the Whizzer, slows them down so they become easy prey for the Stiletto Gang.

Reprinted:

• in Marvel Super-Heroes (Marvel, 1967 series) #17 (November, 1968)
• in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners Comics (Marvel, 2005 series) #4 (2011)

Wave of Destruction! (Chapter 4) (Table of Contents)

Sub-Mariner / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Otto Binder

Pencils:

Al Avison

Inks:

Vince Alascia

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

SL-840

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Namor the Sub-Mariner; un-named Mermaid; Future Man (villain); Madame Death (villain); the Pacific Pirates (villains, introduction for all)

Synopsis:

Namor arrives in Asia along the China coast, and soon discovers the presence of the Pacific Pirates, modern day raiders who use a submarine as their weapon of attack. They are secretly saved from Namor and enlisted by Madame Death and Future Man to help create a massive tidal wave that will wipe out most of the population of Asia.

Reprinted:

• in Marvel Super-Heroes (Marvel, 1967 series) #18 (January, 1969)
• in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners Comics (Marvel, 2005 series) #4 (2011)

Holiday for Murder (Table of Contents)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

? (spot illustration)

Inks:

? (spot illustration)

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Davey Stanford; Mr. Coburn; Simmons (villain, hotel manager); un-named roulette table operator (villain)

Synopsis:

Staying for a short while at a hotel at a Beachwood Resort, young adventurer Davey Stanford witnesses a scene in the hotel's casino in which a patron accuses the owner of a fixed roulette wheel, demanding his money back. As the evening drags on, Davey is positive that the man will never get his money back, but probably will be murdered!

Reprinted:

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

Indexer Notes

Sequence information corrected by Barry Sandoval via GCD Errors list, January, 2009.

The Living Dead! (Chapter 5) (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

Otto Binder

Pencils:

Charles Nicholas

Inks:

Syd Shores

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

SL-840

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Miss America [Madeline Joyce]; Future Man (villain); Madame Death (villain); living mummies (villains, introduction, all die)

Synopsis:

Miss America, while flying over the continent of Africa, notices a caravan below being attacked apparently by living mummies. The mummies have been revived by Future Man's "life battery", which has been converted to give off "life currents", allowing the villain to use thousands of these mummies from unknown tombs to sweep, like an Army, over the entire continent, wiping out all living souls.

Reprinted:

• in Marvel Super-Heroes (Marvel, 1967 series) #18 (January, 1969)
• in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners Comics (Marvel, 2005 series) #4 (2011)

Flames of Fury! (Chapter 6) (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

Otto Binder

Pencils:

Syd Shores

Inks:

Al Gabriele

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

SL-840

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

The Human Torch [Jim Hammond]; Toro; Future Man (villain); Madame Death (villain); desert gang of badmen (villains, introduction for all)

Synopsis:

Future Man uses a common incendiary bomb to start a huge forest fire in North America for the purpose of decoying the Torch and Toro long enough so that he and Madame Death can enlist the aid of desert badmen, who supply the villains with Uranium-235 so that they can produce an atomic match.....a match that will burn anything that has atoms.

Reprinted:

• in Marvel Super-Heroes (Marvel, 1967 series) #18 (January, 1969)
• in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners Comics (Marvel, 2005 series) #4 (2011)

Get Hep to Miss America Teen Life (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Pencils:

?; photo cover

Inks:

?; photo cover

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

teen

Characters:

Patsy Walker

Synopsis:

Illustrated, with cover, promotional ad for Miss America Teen-Life Magazine for December of 1946, complete with plea (and coupon) for readers to subscribe to the publication so they will not miss an issue.

Reprinted:

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

Indexer Notes

Sequence added by Craig Delich 2011-12-31.

War Between the Worlds! (Chapter 7) (Table of Contents)

All-Winners Squad / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Otto Binder

Pencils:

Vince Alascia

Inks:

Al Avison

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

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

Synopsis:

When Future Man is seemingly stopped at every turn by the All-Winners Squad members, he threatens to make a call for help into the future, requesting hundreds of future men be sent by giant spaceships armed with Neutronic Bombs! However, the Squad attacks before this can happen, and, by a quirk of fate, controls on the villain's ship are locked to keep going far in the past, thus ending the threat of future attackers.

Reprinted:

• in Marvel Super-Heroes (Marvel, 1967 series) #18 (January, 1969)
• in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners Comics (Marvel, 2005 series) #4 (2011)

Indexer Notes

The next appearance of the Whizzer and Miss America is in Giant-Size Avengers (Marvel, 1974 series) #1.
The next All-Winners Squad story is in What If? (Marvel, 1977 series) #4, which occurs chronologically before this one and retroactively establishes that the post-war Captain America and Bucky here are Jeff Mace (a.k.a. The Patriot) and Fred Davis.
The next chronological appearance of the All-Winners Squad, Future Man and Madame Death is in All Winners Comics 70th Anniversary Special (Marvel, 2009 Series) #1