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Issue: Marvel Mystery Comics #36

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Publication Date: October 1942

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Issues: #36 of 91 Issues

Title:

Variant: unnamed

Rating:

Publisher: Flag

Marvel

Brand: none

Indicia Publisher: Timely Comics Inc.

On Sale Date: 08/18/1942

Volume: 1

Pages: 68

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.10 USD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 10 (8 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s):

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. 4.

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Format

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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Content Items (10 total)

[untitled]

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Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Human Torch

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Pages: 1

Don't Delay

Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)

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Character(s): Captain America

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Pages: 1

Notes: Promotion exhorting readers to join Captain America's Sentinels of Liberty. Includes an illustration of Captain America.

The Blackout Blitz of J-97

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Human Torch; Toro; J-97 (villain, introduction)

Synopsis: The Human Torch and Toro help stop an invading force of Nazis attempting to enter the city under cover of an electrical blackout.

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Pages: 12

Tanks With Tusks

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Sub-Mariner; Mabu (introduction); The Japanese (villains)

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Pages: 12

Boom Doggling

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Subject Matter

Genres: mystery

Character(s): Terry Vance; Deadline Dawson; Adolph (villain, introduction)

Synopsis: Terry invents a new form of explosive, but it is stolen by a Nazi agent.

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Pages: 7

Woe Is Me!

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Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous, military

Character(s): Jimmy Hoople

Synopsis: While hurrying to get to a war concert in which he is performing, horn player Jimmy Hoople's jeep accidentally crashes into the general's car.

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Reprint Notes: in Primal Spillane: Early Stories 1941-1942 (Gryphon Books, 2004 series)

Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

The World Beneath a World

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): The Vision; The Cyclops (villain, introduction, death); the sewer people (villains, introductions, deaths)

Synopsis: A race of humans that live in the sewers beneah the city, rob and kill surface dwellers in order to survive.

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Pages: 7

The Case of the Missing Molar! or "The Dentist's Dilemma"

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Genres: childrens, fantasy

Character(s): Jimmy Jupiter; Dr. Yank (Painless Dentist)

Synopsis: Jimmy has a toothache and is told by his mother to go see the dentist.

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Pages: 7

The Hunters of Heads

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): The Patriot [Jeff Mace]; Mary Morgan; Jack Casey; Col. Zinzer (villain, introduction, death); the Japanese (villains)

Synopsis: The Patriot convinces the natives of New Guinea to help the allies against the Japanese.

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Pages: 6

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.

Polly Wants a Murder

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): The Angel; Krauss (villain, introduction, death)

Synopsis: A blind man, and his pet parrot, are killing FBI agents. The Angel investigates.

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Pages: 10

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.