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Issue: Marvel Mystery Comics #32
Publication Date: June 1942
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Issues: #32 of 91 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Timely Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 04/13/1942
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 13 (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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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Human Torch
First Line: The Human Torch blazes thru to halt the Jap attack!
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: 'REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR' logo beneath banner.
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Splashing With Thrills!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Sub-Mariner
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Advert for Sub Mariner [sic] issue 5.

Sub-Mariner figure looks more like it is from an Alex Schomburg cover.
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The Statues of Doom

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: mystery, superhero
Character(s): Human Torch; Toro; Frank Portl (villain, introduction)
Synopsis: Frank Portl, a sculptor, murders his secretary when she discovers that he has been smuggling military secrets to spies inside of his statutes. Torch and Toro deduce what had occurred at the scene of the crime and turn him over to police.
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Pages: 12
Disclose Notes: This story is a murder mystery rather than a typical superhero tale.
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Fingers of Death

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Namor the Sub-Mariner; Captain Malcolm; Peter Malcolm; Von Grubb (villain, introduction)
Synopsis: A super-submarine is attacking US ships at one of their naval bases somewhere in the Caribbean. Namor, brought in on another mission, decides to find out who or what is behind the gigantic sub.
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Pages: 12
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The Secret of the Sharks

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Writer(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Vision [Aarkus]; Leila (introduction); The Japanese (villains, deaths)
Synopsis: The Vision materializes when the port of Santa Cruz is attacked by sharks. But are they actually sharks?
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Script originally credited to Stan Lee. Story is not signed. Art originally credited to Vince Alascia. Alascia is not credited in Jerry Bails' Who's Who with ever working on this feature.
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Last Ride

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Mike Greer (villain); Vic Renolds; Jake Morse
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Pages: 2
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In the Land of the Fun People (Part 2)

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Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, fantasy
Character(s): Jimmy Jupiter; Captain Cookie (introduction); the China People of Tea Land (introduction); The Bull in the China Shoppe (villain, introduction); the Licorice Men (villains, introduction)
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Pages: 7
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Marvel Mystery Comics Election Contest Winners

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Character(s): Human Torch; David Lang
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Disclose Notes: Includes an illo of the Human Torch and a photograph of the contest winner, David Lang.
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The Mystery of the Phantom Robberies

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Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Character(s): Terry Vance; Deadline Dawson (guest-star); The Phantom Burglar [Dr. Mefis] (villain, introduction)
Synopsis: Terry and Deadline's planned interview with a woman who has been robbed ends up as an investigation of her psychiatrist.
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Pages: 7
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The Iron-Clawed Monster

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Patriot [Jeff Mace]; Mary Morgan; Jack Casey; The Japanese (villains)
Synopsis: The Patriot gets involved when a huge crab like machine starts attacking and killing divers near the construction of a new battleship.
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Pages: 6
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The Ogre and His Man-Eating Boboes!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Angel; The Ogre (villain, introduction, death); his Boboes (villains, introductions, deaths)
Synopsis: The Angel heads into Mill Forest to solve its mystery and ends up being taken captive by The Ogre and his Boboes.
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Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: credit originally given to Al Fagaly who drew the Patriot story in this issue.
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Foot Itch

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): ? (photograph)
Inker(s): ? (photograph)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Gore Products, Inc.
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Pages: 1
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Daisy Announces the Defender

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Daisy Manufacturing Company
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Pages: 1

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