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Issue: Marvel Mystery Comics #29
Publication Date: March 1942
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Issues: #29 of 91 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Timely Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 01/16/1942
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 9 (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
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Human Torch [Jim Hammond]
First Line: Into the blade she sped as the Human Torch leaped --!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Moonlight Murders

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Human Torch; Toro
Character(s): Human Torch; Toro; The Javelin [Reginald Carter] (villain, introduction)
Synopsis: The Javelin is a big game hunter who has contracted a rare disease which drives him to kill at certain times of the month. He uses carbon dioxide gas to put out Torch and Toro's flame and overpowers them. He makes it appear to police that they have killed a girl so the police chief attempts to arrest them but they resist arrest in order to track down the Javelin. When they apprehend him and turn him over to the cops, the police chief forgives them.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 15
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The Item of the Mad Artist

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Sub-Mariner [Namor]; Stefan Natas [Anton Devere] (villain, introduction, death); Vicki Amherst; Dick Arbor
Synopsis: Namor saves a woman floating in the sea at least 2 miles from the nearest land. He investigates an island party she attended just prior to her going missing.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
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The Mine of Terror

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Vision; Legs Cachone (villain, introduction, death); Dr. Smythe; Joan Smythe
Synopsis: This time the Vision comes to the aid of a doctor and his daughter who have been lured to the Amazon to cure diseased natives, but in actuality it's a ruse to have him heal a mobster in hiding.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: script formerly credited to Stan Lee. Story is not signed. Unknown art per atlastales.com. Previous indexer credited Syd Shores on pencils and inks.
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The Ship In the Desert

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (illustration)
Inker(s): ? (illustration)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): David Cotter; Pop
Synopsis: David Cotter arrives in Wheeler, Arizona to search for fossils, but what he finds is even more suprising.
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Reprint Notes: in Primal Spillane: Early Stories 1941-1942 (Gryphon Books, 2004 series)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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The Mystery of the Stinging Death

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Character(s): Senor Revuelta (villain, introduction); Diosa (introduction)
Synopsis: Terry and Deadline, on assignment in the Caribbean, try to determine why people quickly die from Yellow Fever after being introduced to Diosa, a local dancer.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Unknown art per atlastales.com. Previous indexer credited Bob Oksner on pencils and inks.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, fantasy
Character(s): Jimmy Jupiter; Mr. Bee (a bee, introduction); The Witches of Encore (villains, introductions, one death); Ruffy Rabbit (introduction)
First Line: Falling from an airplane, Jimmy landed on a fantastic cloud where he met a dragon and talking trees!
Synopsis: Jimmy is whisked back to the land of Nowhere by a Bee and is kidnapped by a trio of witches.
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Pages: 6
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The Wolf-Man Terror

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Angel; The Wolf-Man [Gonji] (villain, introduction, death)
Synopsis: The Angel is suspicious when he reads a news article about a Native American being killed by a "wolf that walks like a man". He decides to head out west and investigate.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Unknown art per atlastales.com. Previous indexers credited Gus Schrotter and Al Fagaly.
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Death Stalks the Shipyard

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Patriot [Jeff Mace]; Grosse (villain, introduction, death); Mary; Casey
Synopsis: Grosse (a union leader) convinces workers at a shipyard that they are being exploited by the owners and therefore stop work. The workers are convinced by the Patriot that Grosse is not working in their best interests.
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In Content Item: FlagMarvel Super-Heroes #16 published September 1968
as Death Stalks the Shipyard! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6

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