Marvel Mystery Comics #13

(November 1940)

Cut-Throat Justice (Table of Contents: 1)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Andrew McWhiney (credited)

Pencils

Harry Ramsey (signed as H. R.)

Inks

Harry Ramsey (signed as H. R.)

Letters

typeset

Genre

adventure

Characters

Captain McGraw; Warden Dawes; Danny the Dud (villain, death); Sam the Barber (villain)

Synopsis

As Danny the Dud is being transferred to "the big house", he thinks of his ex-partner whom he double-crossed and sent up the river. Now, as he sits in the barber's chair in prison, ready to get his first shave, the last thing he sees is that ex-partner with a razor in his hand!

Reprints

• in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics (Marvel, 2004 series) #4 ([April] 2009)

Indexer Notes

Found on the inside front and back covers.

[Terror in the Subway] (Table of Contents: 2)

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

Script

Carl Burgos (credited, signed)

Pencils

Carl Burgos (credited, signed)

Inks

Carl Burgos (credited, signed)

Colors

?

Letters

Carl Burgos ?

Genre

superhero

Characters

The Human Torch [Jim Hammond]; un-named mayor; Captain Rawlins (policeman); Reiss (villain, introduction); Mr. Morton (villain, introduction, subway builder)

Universe

Marvel : mainstream

Synopsis

A subway builder loses both of his sons to cave-ins while constructing the tunnels, causing him to lose his mind and seek revenge, wanting to wreck trains so they wouldn't disturb his sons' graves within the tunnels' walls. But he is confined by those whom he hires to help him accomplish the task and the Torch must stop them.

Reprints

• in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics (Marvel, 2004 series) #4 ([April] 2009)
• in Timely's Greatest: The Golden Age Human Torch by Carl Burgos Omnibus (Marvel, 2019 series) (2019)

[Smashing the Island Invasion] (Table of Contents: 3)

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

Script

Bill Everett (credited, signed)

Pencils

Bill Everett (credited, signed)

Inks

Bill Everett (credited, signed)

Colors

?

Letters

Bill Everett

Genre

superhero

Characters

The Sub-Mariner [Namor]; Dorma; Princess Fen; Toro (an Atlantean tailor, introduction); The Nazis (villains, some die)

Universe

Marvel : mainstream

Synopsis

Namor and Dorma, outfitted in new suits designed to ward off poison gasses, and on their way to Europe to aide in the war efforts, stop off at an island for rest. But they find themselves not only under arrest but under attack from the Nazis as well.

Reprints

• in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics (Marvel, 2004 series) #4 ([April] 2009)
• in Timely's Greatest: The Golden Age Sub-Mariner by Bill Everett - The Pre-War Years Omnibus (Marvel, 2019 series) (2019)

[Enter: The Vision] (Table of Contents: 4)

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

Script

Jack Kirby ?; Joe Simon ?

Pencils

Jack Kirby

Inks

Jack Kirby; Joe Simon ?

Colors

?

Letters

Jack Kirby

Genre

superhero

Characters

The Vision [Aarkus] (origin) (introduction, see also issue #23); Dr. Enoch Mason (introduction); Shiela Mason (his daughter, introduction); Mose (Mason's butler); Markham (scientist); "Brains Borelli" (villain); Queenie (villain); Tony (villain, introduction); Bomber (villain, introduction)

Universe

Marvel : mainstream

Synopsis

A professor, believing that ghosts and spirits actually inhabit worlds and universes that co-exist with our universe, is set upon by "Brains" Borelli's men during an experiment to prove his theory. The result is a being called Aarkus, Destoyer of Evil, drawn to the laboratory, who helps save the professor and his daughter from harm.

Reprints

• in Golden Age of Marvel (Marvel, 1997 series) #2 (1999)
• in Marvel Visionaries: Jack Kirby (Marvel, 2004 series) #1 ([October] 2004)
• in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics (Marvel, 2004 series) #4 ([April] 2009)
• in King-Size Kirby (Marvel, 2015 series) (2015)
• in Marvel Visionaries: Jack Kirby (Marvel, 2019 series) (2019)
• in Timely's Greatest: The Golden Age Simon & Kirby Omnibus (Marvel, 2019 series) (2019)
• in Marvel Comics - La collection (Hachette, 2014 series) #204 (avril 2022)

Indexer Notes

Pencils and inks identification by Greg Theakston. Nick Caputo suspects Simon assisted on the inks.

Letters credit identified by Greg Theakston and later Harry Mendryk on the Jack Kirby Museum web page http://kirbymuseum.org/blogs/simonandkirby/archives/2369, 31 October 2008 (retrieved 15 December 2014).

Joe Simon removed from inks field.

Splash page plus selected panels reprinted in Complete Jack Kirby (Pure Imagination, 1997 series) #2.

[Case of the Counterfeit Paintings] (Table of Contents: 5)

Terry Vance, the School Boy Sleuth / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Ray Gill (credited)

Pencils

Bob Oksner (credited)

Inks

Bob Oksner (credited)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

detective-mystery

Characters

Terry Vance; Dr. Watson (a monkey); Deadline Dawson (newspaperman); un-named boss (villain); Slim (villain)

Universe

Marvel : mainstream

Synopsis

Terry's discovery of fresh paint on a supposedly vintage oil painting sparks his interest.
The investigation nearly costs him his life.

Reprints

• in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics (Marvel, 2004 series) #4 ([April] 2009)

[Mystery of the Moon Robots] (Table of Contents: 6)

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

Script

Steve Dahlman ?

Pencils

Steve Dahlman (credited, signed)

Inks

Steve Dahlman (credited, signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

adventure

Characters

Electro; Professor Philo Zog; Dr. Simon Crane (introduction); Betty Crane (his daughter, introduction); Gnorr, Emperor of the Moon (villain, introduction, death)

Universe

Marvel : mainstream

Synopsis

The professor and the Cranes leave Earth for the Moon, but when they send out Electro to investigate the environment, he is attacked and captured by moon robots. Zog and the Cranes land and initiate their own attack on the moon people and save the day.

Reprints

• in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics (Marvel, 2004 series) #4 ([April] 2009)

[The Murder of Happy Norton] (Table of Contents: 7)

The Angel / comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Script

Paul Gustavson ?; Ray Gill ?

Pencils

Paul Gustavson

Inks

Paul Gustavson

Colors

?

Letters

Paul Gustavson

Genre

superhero

Characters

The Angel [Thomas Halloway]; Happy Nolan (introduction, death); The Savoy Gang [Limpy Savoy (death); Rocco; Bumpy; Punchy; Harry] (villain. introduction for all)

Universe

Marvel : mainstream

Synopsis

The death of a former member of the Savoy mob who had chosen to go straight angers the Angel, and he swears to hunt down the men responsible for this death.

Reprints

• in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics (Marvel, 2004 series) #4 ([April] 2009)

Indexer Notes

Gustavson credits from Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson.

[In the New York Jungle] (Table of Contents: 8)

Ka-Zar the Great / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script

Ben Thompson ?

Pencils

Ben Thompson

Inks

Ben Thompson

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

jungle

Characters

Ka-Zar the Great [David Rand]; Zar (a lion); Ruth Wilson; Dr. Wilson

Universe

Marvel : mainstream

Synopsis

Now in America, Ka-Zar is taken in by the police. He escapes through the efforts of the Wilsons and is put into their custody. But Ka-Zar feels he must free Zar as well from behind bars in the zoo, and so he makes his way there to free him.

Reprints

• in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics (Marvel, 2004 series) #4 ([April] 2009)

[Hey Fellas! Look at This!] (Table of Contents: 9) (Expand) /

Human Torch; Namor the Sub-Mariner / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)