Marvel Mystery Comics #10

(August 1940)

The Result of the Most Famous Battle In Comic Magazines (Table of Contents)

The Human Torch; the Sub-Mariner / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Bill Everett; Carl Burgos; John Hampton

Pencils:

Bill Everett; Carl Burgos

Inks:

Bill Everett; Carl Burgos

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

The Human Torch [Jim Hammond]; Sub-Mariner [Prince Namor]; Betty Dean

Synopsis:

Trapped in a translite tube, only the intervention of Betty Dean saves the Torch and ends the battle between him and Namor.

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• in Marvel 65th Anniversary Special (Marvel, 2004 series) #1 ([September] 2004)
• in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics (Marvel, 2004 series) #3

Indexer Notes

Conclusion of the Human Torch/Sub-Mariner battle.

[The Gasoline Profiteering Racket] (Table of Contents)

The Human Torch / comic story / 11 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Carl Burgos (signed)

Pencils:

Carl Burgos (signed)

Inks:

Carl Burgos (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

The Human Torch [Jim Hammond]; Tom; Mr. Atwell (gas station owner); un-named Police Captain; Palmer (villain, introduction); Limpy (villain, introduction); Riley (villain, introduction)

Synopsis:

Torch must battle a gas syndicate who tries to raise the price of gasoline, and bombs any gas station refusing to go along.

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• in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics (Marvel, 2004 series) #3

[Hostilities Renewed] (Table of Contents)

The Sub-Mariner / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Bill Everett (signed)

Pencils:

Bill Everett (signed)

Inks:

Bill Everett (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

Bill Everett ?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

The Sub-Mariner [Prince Namor]; Cap'n Bob (skipper of "The Colleen"); Luther Robinson (introduction); Lynne (introduction); Tha-Korr; Dorma; Stevens (USN sailor)

Synopsis:

Because of Namor's seemingly inability to handle the Torch, he is suspended from all active service. Meanwhile, a group of hardened ice field seamen, led by Luther Robinson, seek out the Sub-Mariner to destroy him.

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• in The Invaders (Marvel, 1975 series) #21 (October 1977)
• in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics (Marvel, 2004 series) #3

Indexer Notes

Letterer credit added by Craig Delich 2012-2-28.

[The Ghouls of the Blue Ridge Mountains] (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

Ray Gill ?

Pencils:

Paul Gustavson (signed)

Inks:

Paul Gustavson (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

The Angel [Tom Hallaway]; un-named girl; a band of ghouls (villains, introduction for all, all die); The Devils of the Mist (villains, introduction for all)

Synopsis:

The Angel must cope with weird "devils of the mist", who have been released from the bowels of the earth by a volcano, and who are kidnapping young women top side to sacrifice to that volcano.

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• in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics (Marvel, 2004 series) #3

Indexer Notes

Writer revision from Paul Gustavson to Ray Gill ?. The Who's Who only lists Ray Gill as writer in 1940 and this story may be by him. Notes added by Craig Delich 2008-11-23.

[Master of the Living Dead] (Table of Contents)

Electro, the Marvel of the Age / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Steve Dahlman (signed)

Inks:

Steve Dahlman (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Electro; Professor Zog; Dr. Bruno Varoz (villain, introduction, death); Varoz's army of living corpses (villains, introduction for all, all die); a two-headed monster (villain, introduction, death)

Synopsis:

Electro is called into service to battle an evil, now insane, ex-genius of brain surgery, stationed in an old castle somewhere off the coast of Cuba, who has successfully created artifical blood.

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• in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics (Marvel, 2004 series) #3

Indexer Notes

Writer revision from Steve Dahlman to ?. The Who's Who lists NO writer for this strip. Notes added by Craig Delich 2008-11-23.

Tiger Trail (Table of Contents)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Beach Allen (signed)

Pencils:

Ed Robins [as E.R.] (signed)

Inks:

Ed Robins [as E.R.] (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Tiger Travis; Jimmy Travis (death); Miles Gudgeon (villain)

Synopsis:

Miles Gudgeon is on the run after murdering a young boy over a handful of petals.

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• in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics (Marvel, 2004 series) #3

Indexer Notes

Art credits added by Craig Delich 2008-11-23.

[Treachery In Two Forks] (Table of Contents)

The Masked Raider / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Al Anders

Inks:

Al Anders

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

western

Characters:

The Masked Raider [Jim Gardley]; Lightning (the Raider's horse); Jonathan Gregg (tax collector, death); Sally; un-named Sheriff; un-named crook (villain)

Synopsis:

A criminal who has fatally wounded a tax collector sees the Raider getting papers from the dying man, and works out a scheme to convince the Sheriff that the Raider is the murderer.....all as a blind to steal the tax money himself.

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• in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics (Marvel, 2004 series) #3

Indexer Notes

Writer revision from Al Anders to ?. The Who's Who lists NO writer for this strip. Notes added by Craig Delich 2008-11-23.

The Murder of a Man Without a Will (Table of Contents)

Terry Vance, the School Boy Sleuth / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Ray Gill

Pencils:

Bob Oksner

Inks:

Bob Oksner

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

detective

Characters:

Terry Vance (introduction); Dr. Watson (introduction, a monkey); Dr. Caldwell (death); un-named assistant of Dr. Caldwell; un-named fiancee of Caldwell's assistant; Gregory (villain, introduction, Caldwell's stepson)

Synopsis:

While Terry Vance, the Boy of a Hundred Hobbies" works on an experiment, he hears a police call of someone murdered in a penthouse. Investigating, he discovers the man has been murdered by "remote control"!

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• in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics (Marvel, 2004 series) #3

[A Visit From Scotland Yard] (Table of Contents)

Adventures of Ka-Zar the Great / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Ben Thompson (signed)

Inks:

Ben Thompson (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

jungle

Characters:

Ka-Zar [David Rand]; Zar (a lion); Nono (a monkey); un-named airplane pilot; un-named detectives; "London" Jack (villain, introduction)

Synopsis:

A wanted criminal captures two Scotland Yard detectives and leaves them for dead, while he attempts to fly out of the jungle to freedom.

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• in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics (Marvel, 2004 series) #3

Indexer Notes

Writer revision from Ben Thompson to ?. The Who's Who lists NO writer for this strip. Notes added by Craig Delich 2008-11-23.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Our Hall of Shame / filler / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Gene Marrin ?

Pencils:

Gene Marrin (signed)

Inks:

Gene Marrin (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

Gene Marrin?

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Dan Druff; "Jolly Joe" Josh; Clem Chowder; Professor O. U. Chiseler; Oscar Tittle

Synopsis:

Features a series of humorous inventors and the problems their inventions have caused.

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• in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics (Marvel, 2004 series) #3

Indexer Notes

Sequence added by Craig Delich 2008-11-23.