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Issue: Marvel Mystery Comics #53
Publication Date: March 1944
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Issues: #53 of 91 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Timely Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 01/24/1944
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, 1944, New Series, Vol. 39, 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
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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Pages: 1
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Master Plan For Destruction

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jimmy Thompson
Inker(s): Jimmy Thompson
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Human Torch
Character(s): Gen. Blauheim (villain, introduction, death); Von Fleagle (villain, introduction, death); Col. Corky (head of G-2, introduction)
Synopsis: Torch and Toro head for a salt mine in Poland where the chemicals for a super bomb are being produced. They are captured in a vacuum device and placed in a large block. Torch finds that he can flame with his finger using the small bit of air that the Nazis have left them so that they will be tortured by the sound of the bombers carrying super bombs lifting off for their targets. After Torch burns through, he and Toro make short work of the planes.
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Pages: 12
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Octopus of the Pacific

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Allen Simon ?
Inker(s): Allen Simon ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Sub-Mariner
Character(s): Lt. Sadu (villain, introduction, death); Adm. Footsu (villain, introduction, death)
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Pages: 12
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The Morse Code Mystery

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Bob Oksner ?
Inker(s): Bob Oksner ?; Vince Alascia ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Terry Vance
Character(s): Nazi spy (impersonating a woman, villain, introduction)
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Pages: 7
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All Wet

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 2
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Flaming Hate

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Otto Binder
Penciller(s): Charles Nicholas ?
Inker(s): Charles Nicholas ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Artie Simek ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Miss America
Character(s): The Flaming Hate (villain, introduction, death)
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Pages: 7
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Spies At the Military Ball

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Al Gabriele ?
Inker(s): Bob Oksner ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Patriot
Character(s): The Baron (villain); Mueller (villain); other Nazi spies (villains, introductions, one death)
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Pages: 7
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Max Bovar Returns

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): Max Bovar (villain, introduction, death); Ivan (villain, introduction); Norvi (villain, introduction)
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Pages: 8

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