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Issue: Marvel Mystery Comics #34
Publication Date: August 1942
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Issues: #34 of 91 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Timely Comics [small shield]View Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Timely Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 06/19/1942
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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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. 3.
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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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Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Human Torch; Toro
First Line: Can the Human Torch's death-defying leap save Toro from the steel-edged doom?
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Pages: 1
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Carl Burgos Meets the Human Torch

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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Human Torch; Toro; Carl Burgos (introduction); Bill Everett (introduction); Martin Goodman (introduction); the Timely Comics staff (introduction); Adolf Hitler (villain); Hermann Goering (villain); Josef Goebbels (villain); assorted Nazis (villains)
Synopsis: Carl Burgos is stuck for a story when suddenly Torch and Toro spring to life from his drawing board. They give him an idea for mocking Hitler and Martin Goodman approves it. Torch and Toro guard the comic books from Nazi attempts to destroy them as they are distributed from planes to German citizens. Hitler orders anyone who laughs at the comics to be shot and demands Carl Burgos be assassinated. Carl meets with Torch, Toro and Sub-Mariner at a diner where a Nazi agent has replaced the soda jerk. Carl collapses after drinking the soda. Torch and Toro apprehend the spy and Carl recovers.
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Pages: 12
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The Shark Subterfuge

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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Sub-Mariner; Grizzly Pete (villain, introduction, death); Mr. Klutz (villain, introduction, death); the Nazis (villains)
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Pages: 12
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The Beast of Cactus Canyon

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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Vision; The Beast of Cactus Canyon (villain, introduction, death); Myron (villain, introduction, death)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Formerly credited to Stan Lee story and Syd Shores art. Story is not signed. New credits from Jerry Bails' Who's Who and comparison of the art with other credited work.
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The Curse of Tutenkamen

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
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Reprint Notes: in Primal Spillane: Early Stories 1941-1942 (Gryphon Books, 2004 series)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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Exposed! The Jap Invaders

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Patriot [Jeff Mace]; A Japanese scientist (turned into a lizard, villain); his Ape-Men (villains, introductions, deaths); Mary Morgan; Jack Casey
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Art originally credited to Al Fagaly, but Fagaly signed his stories. Al Plastino is listed in Jerry Bails' Who's Who as working on this feature at this time.
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Dr. Watson Makes Monkeys Out of the Japs

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Character(s): Capt. Nokuru (villain, introduction, death); a Japanese admiral (villain, introduction, death)
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Pages: 7
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In His Tunnel To China

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, fantasy
Character(s): Jimmy Jupiter; Satan (villain); Werjil (villain, introduction); Matilda (villain, introduction); Temptation (villain, introduction); Will Power (a hero, introduction); Jimmy (introduction)
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Pages: 7
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The Curse of Professor Torture

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Angel; Prof. Torture (villain, introduction, death)
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Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: Art originally credited to Al Fagaly. Fagaly is not credited with this strip in Jerry Bails' Who's Who, nor does this look like his signed work on recent Patriot stories. Alex Blum is in Bails and this work compares to his other work at this time.

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