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Issue: Marvel Mystery Comics #27
Publication Date: January 1942
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Issues: #27 of 91 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Timely Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 11/17/1941
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 12 (8 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1942, New Series, Vol. 37, No. 1.
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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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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Human Torch [Jim Hammond]; Toro [Thomas Raymond]; the Nazis
First Line: As the montrous tank raced toward helpless Toro...
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In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics #7 [Regular Edition] published July 2012
as Marvel Mystery Comics #27 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Yahoo!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Young Allies
Character(s): The Young Allies [Bucky [Bucky Barnes]; Toro [Thomas Raymond]; Percival Aloysius O'Toole [aka Knuckles]; Jefferson Worthington Sandervilt; Whitewash Jones; Henry Tinkle [aka Tubby]]
Synopsis: Illustrated ad (with character head views) for the latest issue of Young Allies Comics which features the Allies battling the Black Talon.
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In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics #7 [Regular Edition] published July 2012
as Yahoo! [Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Found on the inside front cover.

Lee and King signed this piece and are, most likely, two separate people. Bill King did such house ads from 1941-43 and Stan Lee wrote such ads during the same years.
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The Flaming Arrow Murders

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Human Torch [Jim Hammond]; Toro [Thomas Raymond]; Marvin Raleigh (owner of the Raleigh Tank Corporation); The Saint [John Borden] (villain, Raleigh's secretary); Nick Finelli (villain, death)
Synopsis: Torch and Toro must stop the criminal designs of The Saint, who, along with his gang, is out to steal the plans for a new super air tank that the Raleigh Corporation is building.
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In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics #7 [Regular Edition] published July 2012
as The Flaming Arrow Murders [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 15
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You are old enough to vote...---

Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Marvel Mystery Comics
Synopsis: Marvel Mystery Comics contest. Readers are asked to write a letter telling the editors of Marvel Mystery Comics why they like or do not like the following characters in the book: Human Torch, Sub-Mariner, Vision, Terry Vance, Angel, Patriot and Ka-Zar, and to rate each of the characters,from 1-7, as to their own preference. Cash prizes were to be awarded when the contest ends on December 30, 1941 as follows: 1st Prize = $50; 2nd Prize = $25; 3rd Prize = $10; and Prizes for 4th thru 15th = $1 each.
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Pages: 1
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The Fox's Smuggling Racket

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Sub-Mariner [Prince Namor]; George (dock worker); The Fox [Jasper Whifflegears] (villain); "Red" Larson (villain, 2nd in command); Mike (villain)
Synopsis: Namor hears from a dock worker (aka "brush man"), who handles fur cargoes shipped in from Alaska, that no more shipments are being received and that the furs are somehow being smuggled in. Sub-Mariner investigates and discovers that The Fox is putting the stolen furs in torpedo-like metal tubes with motors and fires them into an underground river that leads to the United States.
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In Content Item: FlagGolden Age of Marvel #2 published January 1999
as The Fox's Smuggling Racket [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics #7 [Regular Edition] published July 2012
as The Fox's Smuggling Racket [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
Disclose Notes: The Masterworks edition lists writer and inker as unknown. The last panel mentions that Sub-Mariner Comics #3 went on sale about October 1, 1941.
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A Business Meeting In Hell

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Vision [Aarkus]; Lucifer Satan [Victor Tisling] (villain); Satan's un-named sales manager (villain)
Synopsis: Satan demands that his sales manager quit falling down on the job and see to it that the only evil-free city in the United States, Arbor City, is turned into a hotbed of evil and misery. So he decides to send a special agent to Arbor City, in the guise of a local hero, to accomplish the deed.
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In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics #7 [Regular Edition] published July 2012
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: The Masterworks edition lists writer as unknown. Previous indexer credited Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. Avison pencils and Klein and unknown inks per Michael J. Vassallo via atlastales.com and the Masterworks. Previous indexer credited Jack Kirby and David Walters.
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Quick Thinking, or, How Good a Detective Are You?

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Character(s): Tom Moriarity; Eddie Thompson (mailman); un-named girl (death); Henry Gordon (bank guard); un-named gang of bank robbers (villains)
Synopsis: Ed warned Old Tom that some notorious bank robbers and killers in Kenton were headed his way and to be on the alert. They arrived and held Tom prisoner, but he quickly turned the tables on the crooks. But how did the police know the crooks were in Tom’s house?
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In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics #7 [Regular Edition] published July 2012
as Quick Thinking, or, How Good a Detective Are You? [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Written as a mystery where you are asked to work out the answer before reading the solution.
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Voodini's Last Laugh From the Grave

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Character(s): Terry Vance; Dr. Watson (a monkey); Deadline Dawson; Professor Voodini's un-named lawyer; six un-named relatives of Professor Voodini (two die); Professor Voodini (villain, death); Professor Voodini's un-named butler (villain)
Synopsis: The relatives of the late Professor Voodini gather at his mansion to listen to the reading of the will, whose contents lead to several murders and the re-appearance of the evil professor.
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In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics #7 [Regular Edition] published July 2012
as Voodini's Last Laugh from the Grave! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: The Masterworks edition lists pencil layout artist as Oksner, but finished penciler and inker as unknown.
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Death To Spies!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Patriot [Jeffrey Mace]; Mark Casey; Mary; Guinaldo (villain, murderous Filipino); Suoka (villain, Japanese secret agent, death)
Synopsis: Suoka has appointed a Filipino bolo wielder to murder Lt. Curtis, but the Patriot interferes and prevents the crime, finally tracking down the Japanese secret agent behind the murder plot.
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In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics #7 [Regular Edition] published July 2012
as Death to Spies! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: The Masterworks edition lists the writer as unknown. Sid Greene pencils and unknown inks per Michael J. Vassalo via the Masterworks. Previous indexer credited Ray Houlihan.
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Death Rings the Bell!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Angel [Tom Halloway]; Richard Brown (death); Abigail Brown (Richard Brown's sister, death); unnamed butler to the late Jonathan Brown; unnamed servant girl to the late Jonathan Brown; Sprague (carillon player for the late Jonathan Brown); the Phantom of the Bell Tower (villain, brother of Abigail Brown)
Synopsis: The Angel investigates weird deaths associated with the ringing of the carillon belonging to the late millionaire, Jonathan Brown.
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In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics #7 [Regular Edition] published July 2012
as Death Rings the Bell! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
Disclose Notes: The Masterworks edition lists the writer and artist(s) as unknown.

The writer may have been either Gustavson (who wrote the feature into 1942) or Jaediker (who also wrote the feature sometime in 1942), so both are added to script credit with ? after their names.

All Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson.
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Fighting for the Free French

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Character(s): Ka-Zar [David Rand]; the Nazis (villains, all die)
Synopsis: Arriving in French Equatorial Africa, Ka-Zar is captured by the Nazis and used as a decoy to sucker French ships into submarine range.
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In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics #7 [Regular Edition] published July 2012
as Fighting for the Free French [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Last appearance.

The Masterworks edition lists the writer and inker as unknown.
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Battle of the giants!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Human Torch [Jim Hammond]; The Sub-Mariner [Prince Namor]
Synopsis: Illustrated ad for Human Torch Comics #5b, art taken from cover of Marvel Mystery Comics #9.
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In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics #7 [Regular Edition] published July 2012
as Battle of the giants! [Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Found on the inside back cover.

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