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Issue: Marvel Mystery Comics #25
Publication Date: November 1941
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Issues: #25 of 91 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Timely Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 09/18/1941
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 12 (8 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Joe Simon
Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1941, New Series, Vol. 36, No. 4.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S. (through about early 1944, narrower thereafter)
Paper Stock: newsprint
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Alex Schomburg
Inker(s): Alex Schomburg
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Human Torch and the Sub-Mariner
Character(s): Human Torch [Jim Hammond]; Toro [Thomas Raymond]; Sub-Mariner [Prince Namor]; the Nazis
First Line: Only the Torch and Toro stood between the Sub-Mariner and the Nazi firing squad
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics #7 [Regular Edition] published July 2012
as Marvel Mystery Comics #25 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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All Winners Makes History

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): All Winners Comics
Character(s): Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bucky [Bucky Barnes]; Human Torch [Jim Hammond]; Toro [Thomas Raymond]; Sub-Mariner [Prince Namor]; the Destroyer [Keen Marlow]; The Whizzer [Robert Frank]
Synopsis: Illustrated promotional ad with text and the cover for All Winners Comics #2 (Fall, 1941).
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In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics #7 [Regular Edition] published July 2012
as All Winners Makes History [Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Found on the inside front cover.
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The King Crime Syndicate

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Carl Burgos (signed)
Penciller(s): Carl Burgos (signed)
Inker(s): Carl Burgos (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Human Torch and Toro
Character(s): The Human Torch [Jim Hammond]; Toro [Thomas Raymond]; Tom (Policeman); Steve (reporter for "The Voice"); un-mnamed managing editor of "The Voice"; The King [Steve] (villain, death); Rocky (villain, death)
Synopsis: A numbers gangster decides to move into healthcare by kidnapping pharmacists and forcing them to create black market drugs. He shoots one of them at the hospital when he protests and he throws another into a vat of acid in his hideout chemical lab when the man refuses to produce drugs that are dangerous to people. Torch and Toro set off an explosion which kills the gangster.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics #7 [Regular Edition] published July 2012
as The King Crime Syndicate [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 15
Disclose Notes: The Masterworks edition lists the inker as unknown.
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The Little People

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bill Everett (signed)
Penciller(s): Bill Everett (signed)
Inker(s): Bill Everett (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Bill Everett
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Sub-Mariner
Character(s): The Sub-Mariner [Prince Namor]; Dorma; Betty Dean; Luther Robinson; Lynne Harris; Carma (Imperial guard); Queen Jarna (villain, Queen of the Lavorites); the Lavorites ("the Little People"); Joseph (villain, butler); un-named German spies (villains)
Synopsis: Namor is called in to investigate strange happenings at the seashore, and he discovers a race of little people and a Queen Jarna from the planet Venus, who came to Earth in a rocket ship as a springboard to an invasion.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics #7 [Regular Edition] published July 2012
as The Little People [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
Disclose Notes: Continued next issue. The Masterworks edition lists the inker as unknown.
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A new better-than-ever excitement packed issue!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): Al Avison
Inker(s): Al Gabriele
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): most typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Captain America Comics
Character(s): Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bucky [Bucky Barnes]; the Nazis
Synopsis: Illustrated ad, with cover reproduced, for Captain America Comics #8 November, 1941), and asking readers to join Cap's Sentinels of Liberty.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics #7 [Regular Edition] published July 2012
as A new better-than-ever excitement packed issue! [Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagGolden Age Captain America Omnibus #1 [Lee Weeks Cover] published February 2014
as Captain America Comics #8 House Ad from Marvel Mystery Comics #25 [Illustration on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Ray Gill ?
Penciller(s): Sid Greene (signed)
Inker(s): Sid Greene (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Patriot
Character(s): The Patriot [Jeffrey Mace]; Mark Casey (newspaper reporter); Herr Huss (villain, Hitler's right hand man, death); John Garrett (villain, a pro-Nazi American, death); Garrett's butler (villain)
First Line: Patriot Downs Nazi!
Synopsis: Casey gets a hot tip that the Patriot has been shot by Huss and heads toward the Garrett home, when he is captured and walled-in alive to die.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics #7 [Regular Edition] published July 2012
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: The Masterworks edition lists the writer as unknown.
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Marvel Get-Together

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee (signed)
Penciller(s): ? (spot illustration)
Inker(s): ? (spot illustration)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Human Torch [Jim Hammond]; Toro [Thomas Raymond]; Terry Vance; the Angel [Tom Hallaway]; the Patriot [Jeffrey Mace]; Ka-Zar; Sub-Mariner [Prince Namor]; the Vision [Aarkus]
Synopsis: The heroes get together for their monthly meeting to compare notes and to adopt a resolution that the heroes would do all in their power to preserve the sacred principles and ideals of American democracy, and to crush the fiendish efforts of the underworld for all time.
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In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics #7 [Regular Edition] published July 2012
as Marvel Get-Together [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Supposedly continued next issue, but it did not appear.
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The Forest Fire Saboteur

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Ray Gill (signed)
Penciller(s): Bob Oksner [as Robert Oksner] (signed)
Inker(s): Bob Oksner [as Robert Oksner] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Terry Vance, the School Boy Sleuth
Character(s): Terry Vance; Deadline Dawson; Bull Dawson; un-named Nazi arsonist (villain)
Synopsis: Terry meets and defeats a Nazi arsonist, who has been destroying forested areas owned by Bull Dawson.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics #7 [Regular Edition] published July 2012
as The Forest Fire Saboteur [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: The Masterworks edition states that Oksner only did layouts for this story, and the finished penciler and inker are unknown.
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The Vengeance of Saba

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Ben Thompson ?
Penciller(s): Ben Thompson
Inker(s): Ben Thompson
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Feature(s): Adventures of Ka-Zar the Great
Character(s): Ka-Zar [David Rand]; Saba (brother of Ali Hamud, death); Ali Hamud (villain, renegade Arab prince, death); Captain Olendorff (villain, death)
Synopsis: Ka-Zar and Saba escape the evil clutches of Ali Hamud and Captain Olendorff, who are attempting to use their jungle fortress as a secret air and supply base for the Nazis attacking the British in South Africa. Saba lights the fuse that destroys the base and everyone inside, but Ka-Zar is caught in the explosiion and seriously hurt or killed.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics #7 [Regular Edition] published July 2012
as The Vengeance of Saba [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Continued next issue.
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The Book of Sorcery

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Jack Kirby ?; Joe Simon ?
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby; Al Avison; Mike Sekowsky ? (see notes)
Inker(s): Ernie Hart ?; ? (see notes)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Howard Ferguson
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Vision
Character(s): The Vision [Aarkus]; un-named Lecture Guild chairman; Professor Enric Zagnar (villain, metaphysics instructor, death)
Synopsis: The Vision must face a mad professor who believes that the laws of nature are meant to be broken and that man must take the power into his own hands to control all the elements. Zagnar does, with horrific results!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Super-Heroes #13 published March 1968
as The Book of Sorcery [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagGolden Age of Marvel #[nn] published October 1997
as The Book of Sorcery [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics #7 [Regular Edition] published July 2012
as The Book of Sorcery [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: The Masterworks edition lists the writer[s] as unknown. Per Michael J, Vassallo via Atlas Tales (and his art id for the Masterworks): "Kirby splash and some Kirby layouts or breakdowns. Al Avison pencils attributed
A mish-mash of Avison(?), Hart (?) and a guess at Sekowsky (?)" Previous indexer credited Kirby on pencils and Simon on inks.
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The Python and the Prison Riot

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Al Avison
Inker(s): Al Gabriele
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Angel
Character(s): Angel [Tom Halloway]; un-named prison warden; The Python (villain, death)
Synopsis: The Angel comes to see the Python pay for his crimes in the electric chair, but the wiley villain seizes the warden, and, with the help of the other inmates, attempts to break through lines of U.S. servicemen sent to quell the riot.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics #7 [Regular Edition] published July 2012
as The Python and the Prison Riot [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
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Hold your breath!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): most typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): USA Comics
Character(s): Captain Terror [Dan Kane]; Adolf Hitler; the Nazis
Synopsis: Illustrated ad, with the cover, for USA Comics #2 (November, 1941)
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics #7 [Regular Edition] published July 2012
as Hold your breath! [Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Found on the inside back cover.

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