All-Winners Comics #5

(Summer 1942)

All Winners (Table of Contents: 1)

Human Torch; Captain America; Whizzer; Sub-Mariner / table of contents / 1 page (report information)

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Letters:

typeset

Characters:

Captain America; Bucky; Human Torch; Toro; Whizzer; Destroyer; Sub-Mariner

Synopsis:

Table of Contents page, illustrated with head-views of features and brief story synopses.

Reprints:

• in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners Comics (Marvel, 2005 series) #2 ([December] 2006)

Indexer Notes

Found on the inside front cover. Oddity: on this page, the Destroyer is shown but the TOC doesn't list his story, and instead asks "Have you read 'Krazy Komics'"? Sequence and all info added by Craig Delich 7-3-08.

[Invading the Nazis' Secret Plan] (Table of Contents: 2)

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

Script:

Carl Burgos ?

Pencils:

Carl Burgos

Inks:

Ed Ashe

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Human Torch [Jim Hammond]; Toro [Thomas Raymond]; Captain Von Spitz (villain; introduction)

Synopsis:

Torch and Toro discover that the Nazis are operating out of a steamship anchored to a pier at Coney Island, intending to deliver a bomb (along with needed tanks of oxygen) to a hospital in order to kill thousands.

Reprints:

• in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners Comics (Marvel, 2005 series) #2 ([December] 2006)

Indexer Notes

Synopsis and some info added by Craig Delich 7-3-08. Ashe inks per atlas tales: https://www.atlastales.com/issue/183 Previous indexer credited Carl Burgos.

Don't Delay Another Second! (Table of Contents: 3) (Expand) /

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

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4)

A Bit of Hocus Pocus / activity / 1 page (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

Red Holmdale (signed)

Inks:

Red Holmdale (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Characters:

Keith Clark

Synopsis:

Famous international magician, Keith Clark, explains (in text and illos) how to do tricks used by magicians, such as the vanishing coin box, Indian basket mystery, the magnetic coin and others.

Reprints:

• in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners Comics (Marvel, 2005 series) #2 ([December] 2006)

Indexer Notes

Sequence and all info added by Craig Delich 7-3-08.

The Vampire Strikes! (Table of Contents: 5)

Captain America / comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

Al Avison ?

Inks:

Don Rico ?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bucky [Bucky Barnes]; Sgt. Duffy; The Vampire [Doctor Togu] (villain; introduction; Death)

Synopsis:

Cap and Bucky must face the threat created by the world's greatest master of occult medicine, Dr. Togu, who has forsaken the dropping of disease bombs on the Chinese people to inflict yet a new terror upon America: a vampire!

Reprints:

• in Comix: A History of Comic Books in America (Outerbridge & Dienstfrey, 1971 series) (1971)
• in Comix: A History of Comic Books in America (Bonanza, 1971 series) (1971)
• in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners Comics (Marvel, 2005 series) #2 ([December] 2006)

Indexer Notes

Synopsis and some info added by Craig Delich 7-3-08. Information for Comix: A History of Comic Books in America reprints submitted by Cesar Esteban Diaz via the GCD Error Tracker.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 6)

Patent Pending / cartoon / 1 page (report information)

Script:

Lou Paige (signed)

Pencils:

Lou Paige (signed)

Inks:

Lou Paige (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

humor

Synopsis:

Illustrated one-panel gags portraying proposed inventions that people need to have.

Reprints:

• in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners Comics (Marvel, 2005 series) #2 ([December] 2006)

Indexer Notes

Writer credit and synopsis added by Craig Delich 7-3-08.

[Speed On the Rampage] (Table of Contents: 7)

Whizzer / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

Howard James (signed)

Inks:

Howard James (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

The Whizzer; Warden Balew (villain)

Synopsis:

Whizzer must tackle a crooked prison warden, who has formed "A League of Petty Crimes", which allows prisoners to "escape" from prison, commit crimes, then return with the loot, having an alibi no one can prove untrue.

Reprints:

• in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners Comics (Marvel, 2005 series) #2 ([December] 2006)

Indexer Notes

Synopsis and some info added by Craig Delich 7-3-08.

Smash Return! (Table of Contents: 8) (Expand) /

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

The Man in the Moon (Table of Contents: 9)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script:

Mickey Spillane [as Spillane] (signed)

Letters:

typeset

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Bruce Henderson

Synopsis:

On December 31, 1941.....New Year's Eve, Bruce Henderson was in the jungles of Brazil and comes upon a rocket ship, and decides to use it to fly to the Moon. When he returns, no one believes him, until........they discovered, as Henderson told them they would, the large, mile-long letters "U S A" on the Moon's surface that he had made while he was there, and which they could now see using a new improved telescope!

Reprints:

• in Comix: A History of Comic Books in America (Outerbridge & Dienstfrey, 1971 series) (1971)
• in Comix: A History of Comic Books in America (Bonanza, 1971 series) (1971)
• in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners Comics (Marvel, 2005 series) #2 ([December] 2006)
• in Primal Spillane: Early Stories 1941-1942 (Gryphon Books, 2004 series)

Indexer Notes

Much info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 7-3-08. Reprint note for Primal Spillane from Arthur Lortie, August 2008.

"A special message to the boys and girls of America from Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Secretary of the Treasury" (Table of Contents: 10)

public service announcement / 1 page (report information)

Script:

Henry Morgenthal, Jr. (credited)

Pencils:

? (illustration)

Inks:

? (illustration)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?; typeset

Genre:

advocacy

Synopsis:

The editors of this magazine print a letter from the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, encouraging the boys and girls of America to buy their Savings Stamps to help the U.S. win the war effort.

Reprints:

• in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners Comics (Marvel, 2005 series) #2 ([December] 2006)

Indexer Notes

Promotes buying savings stamps.

The Hermit's Island of Glittering Gold! (Table of Contents: 11)

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

Script:

Bill Everett ?

Pencils:

Bill Everett

Inks:

Carl Pfeufer ?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

The Sub-Mariner [Prince Namor]; un-named hermit; Marshal Doering (villain; introduction); the Nazis (villain)

Synopsis:

After up-ending a boatload of Nazis into the drink, Namor lands on an isle, only to discover it is covered with gold. However, he must not only battle the Nazis, who become shipwrecked there, but the strange hermit who resides there, believing all these visitors are there to steal the gold.

Reprints:

• in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners Comics (Marvel, 2005 series) #2 ([December] 2006)

Indexer Notes

Synopsis added by Craig Delich 7-3-08.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 12)

Patent Pending / cartoon / 1 page (report information)

Script:

Lou Paige (signed)

Pencils:

Lou Paige (signed)

Inks:

Lou Paige (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

Lou Paige

Genre:

humor

Synopsis:

In a series of one pages panels, the writer/artist illustrates inventions that should be patented to make people's life a bit easier.

Reprints:

• in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners Comics (Marvel, 2005 series) #2 ([December] 2006)

Indexer Notes

Sequence and all info added by Craig Delich 7-3-08.

The Demon's Deadly Secret! (Table of Contents: 13)

Destroyer / comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

John Forte [as Forte] (signed)

Inks:

John Forte [as Forte] (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Destroyer [Keen Marlow]; Paul Voltz [Death]; Captain Achhimmell (villain; introduction); Inga Von Leche (villain; introduction)

Synopsis:

In order to save the lives of several Americans the Nazis are planning to execute, the Destroyer assumes the alias of writer Louis Kramer to infiltrate the enemy camp and achieve his aims.

Reprints:

• in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners Comics (Marvel, 2005 series) #2 ([December] 2006)

Indexer Notes

Synopsis and some info added by Craig Delich 7-3-08.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 14)

A Bit of Hocus Pocus / filler / 1 page (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

Red Holmdale (signed)

Inks:

Red Holmdale (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Characters:

Keith Clark

Synopsis:

The famous international magician, Keith Clark, through text and illustration, explains how magic tricks, such as the spook rapping trick, the reading of burnt messages and others are actually done.

Reprints:

• in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners Comics (Marvel, 2005 series) #2 ([December] 2006)

Indexer Notes

Synopsis and other info added by Craig Delich 7-3-08.

[Krazy Komics] (Table of Contents: 15) (Expand) /

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