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Issue: Marvel Mystery Comics #48
Publication Date: October 1943
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Issues: #48 of 91 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Timely Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 08/25/1943
Volume: 1
Pages: 60
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 8 (7 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. 4.
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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
Credits
Penciller(s): Alex Schomburg
Inker(s): Alex Schomburg
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Human Torch
Character(s): Human Torch [Jim Hammond]; Toro
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Pages: 1
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Horror of the Masked Fiend

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Harry Sahle ?; Tom Tomasch ?; Allen Bellman ? (see notes)
Inker(s): Allen Bellman ?; Vince Alascia ? (see notes)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Human Torch
Character(s): Hermann Schmidt (villain, introduction, death)
Synopsis: A legless Nazi agent builds a wheelchair with hidden flaming hands to strangle army generals and put the blame onto the Torch. He captures Torch and Toro in a tank filled with liquid asbestos but there is just enough room at the top for Torch to ignite his hands and burn through the lid. When Torch and Toro burst through the wall, a flung brick strikes the control stud on the chair and the Nazi agent perishes at the hands of his own diabolical device.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
Disclose Notes: The names Tomasch, Bellman and Alascia appear in newspaper headlines and may have been involved in the art. Unknown inks per atlastales and Nick Caputo. Previous indexer credited Harry Sahle.
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Decoy For Death

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): Von Lontz (villain, introduction, death)
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Pages: 12
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The Case of the Spy Master's Quiz

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Terry Vance
Character(s): Deadline Dawson (guest-star); Gaines (villain, introduction)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Unknown art per atlasatales.com and Nick Caputo. Previous indexer credited Frank Bolle but Nick notes Bolle's earliest work is credited as backgrounds and by Bolle's own account he did not draw a strip until after the war.
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Booby Prize

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 2
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The Playing Card Castle

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Ray Gill ?
Penciller(s): Fred Bell ?
Inker(s): Fred Bell ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, fantasy
Feature(s): Jimmy Jupiter
Character(s): Jimmy Jupiter; Queen Clara (introduction, a card queen); her King (introduction); Cigam (introduction, a wizard)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Last Golden Age appearance. The character is reintroduced in Captain America (Marvel, 2011 series) #1
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The Mine Murderer

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): Vince Alascia ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Vision
Character(s): Lucky Wilson (villain, introduction, death); Nazi spy ring (villains, introductions)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Unknown pencils and possible Alascia inks per Nick Caputo July, 2018. Previous indexer credited Mike Sekowsky on pencils and Syd Shores on inks.

The Vision's next appearance is in KID KOMICS #3.
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Ghastly Secret of Castle Mood

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Gustav Schrotter ?
Inker(s): Gustav Schrotter ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Angel
Character(s): Capt. Kraust (villain, introduction, death); Hugo (villain, introduction, death); Karl (villain, introduction); Lord Mood (introduction); Lucy Mood (his sister, introduction)
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Pages: 8

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