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Issue: Marvel Mystery Comics #39
Publication Date: January 1943
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Issues: #39 of 91 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Timely Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 11/20/1942
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 10 (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, 1943, New Series, Vol. 38, 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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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Human Torch [Jim Hammond]; Toro
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Pages: 1
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Smugglers of Death

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Writer(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Phineas T. Horton (last in issue #1, guest-star); Doris Horton (his niece, introduction); Coburn (villain, introduction)
Synopsis: Dr. Horton asks the Torch to guard his niece arriving from Sweden, but he appears to have failed in his task when gunmen open up on her. It turns out that she was a decoy for Horton's niece who has smuggled out of Berlin a list of spies operating in America inside of a large pearl.
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Pages: 12
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The Case of the Blinding Lights

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Von Goober (villain, introduction); Japanese (villains)
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Pages: 12
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The Magic Glasses

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, fantasy
Character(s): GS: Knobby the Marionette (guest-star); Three witches [Minerva (villain, introduction); Melissa (villain, introduction); unnamed third (villain, introduction)]
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: continued next issue
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Jane Had to Get Rough

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: It was sure death to all of them if the baby cried aloud.
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Pages: 1.67
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Statement of Ownership

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 0.33
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Krauss (villain, introduction, death); Hoff (villain); other Nazi spies (villains, introductions)
First Line: Flames like the flames of Hades light the night -- another plane factory sabotaged!
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Unknown pencils per Nick Caputo. Previous indexer credited Syd Shores.
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Dialogue of Death

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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Smitty Smith (villain, introduction, death); Dick Crawn (introduction, death)
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Pages: 7
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The Case of the Fat Man's Folly

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Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Character(s): Deadline Dawson (guest-star); Nazi spy ring (villains, introductions)
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Pages: 7
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The Missing Fishermen

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Fish Brothers [Carpo (villain, introduction); Spiko (villain, introduction); Basso (villain, introduction); Tuno (villain, introduction)]
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Pages: 10

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