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Issue: Marvel Mystery Comics #42
Publication Date: April 1943
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Issues: #42 of 91 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Timely Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 02/19/1943
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 10 (8 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Vince Fago ?
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. 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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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Alex Schomburg [as Schomburg] (signed)
Inker(s): Alex Schomburg [as Schomburg] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Human Torch
Character(s): Human Torch [Jim Hammond]; Toro
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Prescriptions For Death

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Harry Sahle ?
Inker(s): Harry Sahle ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Human Torch
Character(s): Mikkel (villain, introduction); his spy ring (villains, introductions)
Synopsis: Torch and Toro stop Nazi suicide bombers from committing terrorist acts.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
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Terror of the Boiling Seas

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Carl Pfeufer
Inker(s): Carl Pfeufer ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Sub-Mariner
Character(s): Adolf Hitler (villain); Josef Goebbels (villain); Kapitan Sturm (villain, introduction, death)
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In Content Item: FlagGolden Age of Marvel #[nn] published October 1997
as Terror of the Boiling Sea [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
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The Case of the Missing Link

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Ray Gill ?
Penciller(s): Bob Oksner ?
Inker(s): Bob Oksner ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Terry Vance
Character(s): Deadline Dawson (guest-star); Mr. Kurt (villain, introduction); Heinrich Himmelman (villain, introduction)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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Johnny Does His Bit

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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The Asteroid Monsters

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Vision
Character(s): Seraq (villain, introduction, death); Notoi (villain, introduction, death); other aliens (villains, introductions, deaths)
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Pages: 7
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[untitled]

Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (illustration)
Inker(s): ? (illustration)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Marvel Mystery Quiz
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Pages: 1.5
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The Wump Jump and the Tire Thieves

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Ed Robbins
Penciller(s): Ed Robbins
Inker(s): Ed Robbins ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, fantasy
Feature(s): Jimmy Jupiter
Character(s): Wump Jump (guest-star); Ruffy Rabbit (guest-star); A gang of tire thieves (villains); Mr. Jupiter (Jimmy's father, introduction)
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Pages: 6
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The Disappearing Spies

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Syd Shores ?
Inker(s): Allen Bellman ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Patriot
Character(s): Klugg (villain, introduction); other Nazi spies (villains, introductions)
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Pages: 6
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Quarantine For Murder

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Roy Garn [as Garn] (signed)
Penciller(s): Gustav Schrotter [as Schrotter] (signed)
Inker(s): Gustav Schrotter ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Angel
Character(s): The Angel; Fritz Von Bock (villain, introduction); Otto (villain, introduction); Kurt (villain, introduction); other Nazi spies (villains, introductions); Dr. C. J. Noon (introduction)
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In Content Item: FlagGolden Age of Marvel #[nn] published October 1997
as Quarantine for Murder [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 10

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