The Human Torch
#19
(Summer 1945)
Marvel,
1940 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- quarterly
- On-sale Date
- 1945-06-23
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Snap Publishing Co. Inc.
- Editing
- Vince Fago (editor)
Issue Notes
The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1945, New Series, Vol. 40, No. 3
[no title indexed]
Human Torch / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Human Torch; Toro; Sub-Mariner [Prince Namor] (inset)
Blackmailer of Death
Human Torch / comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Moke Slade (villain, introduction, death)
- Synopsis
- Moke Slade attempts to blackmail Broadway star Rita Worth since her father is serving a prison term for murder. She telephones the Torch for help and Slade overhears so he shoots her. The Torch finds out her real name from the police and visits with the father in jail. The father admits that he told his cellmate Moke about his daughter and Torch promises that he will bring him to justice. Moke falls to his death battling Torch and Toro.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
Human Torch -
1.
Blackmailer of Death
Human Torch -
2.
The Chamber of Horrors
Human Torch -
3.
Embraced By Death
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4.
Holiday With Murder
Namor the Sub-Mariner
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Henry Andrews
- Bill Borre
- Nick Caputo
- Del Gruber
- Banks S. Robinson
- Richard Thomson
- Jim Van Dore
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