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Issue: Marvel Mystery Comics #30
Publication Date: April 1942
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Issues: #30 of 91 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Timely Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 02/18/1942
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 9 (8 stories, 1 cover)
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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. 2.
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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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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Human Torch; Toro
First Line: The Japs started their treacherous attack --
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Pages: 1
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March of the Metal Mobsters

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 Metal Mobsters [Stephen Cole; others]] (villains, introduction); Mary Orchid (introduction); Leslie Garden (introduction)
Synopsis: A woman is worried when her fiance disappears so she asks Torch and Toro for help. She tells him that he has developed a plastic metal that may have made him a target for abductors. Torch and Toro encounter men clad in suits made of the stuff and have difficulty subduing them. The woman's fiance turns out to be in one of the suits, but Torch suspects he has been coerced into his actions when he sees welts upon his back. The true villain reveals himself and takes the woman as a hostage to escape. Toro sneaks around behind him and captures him.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 15
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Reprisal Revenge

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Sub-Mariner [Namor]; Princess Fen; Nazis (villains)
Synopsis: Sub-Mariner almost liberates France.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
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The Crank

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? (see notes)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Vision; The Crank [Powers] (introduction, villain, death); Powers' secretary (introduction, death)
Synopsis: Vision gets involved when The Crank threatens to destroy Finance City.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Story previously credited to Stan Lee. Story is not signed. Possible Klein inks per Nick Caputo, July 2018. Previous indexer credited Syd Shores.
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Lumps of Death

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Jack Billing’s; George
Synopsis: Jack Billing tries to foil a plot to place explosive coal into train engines.
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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 Flying Corpses

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Patriot [Jeff Mace]; Dr. Strasser (villain, introduction, death); Mary; Casey
Synopsis: The Patriot tries to solve the riddle of people dying, expanding and floating away after getting blood transfusions.
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Pages: 6
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The Mystery of the Pharaoh's Eye

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Inker(s): ? (see notes)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Character(s): Terry Vance; Deadline Dawson; Finog (villain, introduction)
Synopsis: Terry tries to work out how a heavily guarded ruby in a museum could be swapped with a fake.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Unknown art per atlastales.com. Previous indexer credited Bob Oksner.
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The Fairy Dance

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, fantasy
Character(s): Jimmy Jupiter; The Wump-Jump; Ruffy Rabbit; the Little People (introduction); the Gnomes (villains, introduction)
Synopsis: Jimmy rides a moonbeam back to Nowhere and witnesses a fairy dance. But things take a turn for the worse when Gnomes attack.
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Pages: 6
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The House of Slaughter

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (see notes)
Inker(s): ? (see notes)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Angel; Riesel (villain, introduction, death)
Synopsis: The Angel goes after a man who has kidnapped a woman from the street. He discovers a horror like no other.
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Unknown art per atlastales.com. Previous indexers credited Gus Schrotter and Paul Gustavson.

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