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Issue: All-Winners Comics #18
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Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: none
On Sale Date: 04/19/1946
Volume: 1
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 7 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Stan Lee; Martin Goodman (president)
Disclose Notes: ALL-WINNERS COMICS is published quarterly at Meriden, Conn., by Western Fiction Publishing Co., Inc. Entered as second class matter April 24, 1941 at the post office at Meriden, Conn., under Act of March 3, 1879. Contents copyright 1946 by Western Fiction Publishing Co., Inc., 350 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y., Martin Goodman, Pres. Vol. 1, No. 18, Summer, 1946 issue. Yearly subscription $.40 in the U.S.A. No similarity between any of the names, characters, persons and/or institutions appearing in this magazine with those of any living or dead person or institution is intended, and that any such similarity which may exist is purely coincidental. Printed in the U.S.A.

The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Vol. 1, Part 2, Nos. 1&2, Periodicals, 1946-1947.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Golden Age US
Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior
Binding: Saddle-Stitched
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Alex Schomburg
Alex Schomburg
?
Subject Matter
superhero
Human Torch; Toro; Captain America; Bucky; Sub-Mariner
Human Torch [Jim Hammond]; Toro; Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bucky [Bucky Barnes]; Sub-Mariner [Prince Namor]
Reprinting
FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners Comics #4 [Regular Edition] published November 2011
as All-Winners Comics #18 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
 
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The Case of the Baffling Neptune!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Bill Finger
Mike Sekowsky; ?
?
?
?
Subject Matter
superhero
Sub-Mariner
Sub-Mariner [Prince Namor]; Betty Dean; William Lawson (villain, introduction); Pete Logan (villain, introduction, son of Mickey Wilson); Mickey Wilson [as Richard Smith] (villain, death)
Gangsters accost Betty Dean because they think she has information on the ship "Neptune". Namor becomes involved and discovers that a million dollars has been hidden on board which is what the thugs are seeking. Namor captures them all and sends them to prison.
Reprinting
FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners Comics #4 [Regular Edition] published November 2011
as The Case of the Baffling Neptune! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
12
R 315
Sekowsky and unknown pencils and unknown inks per the Masterworks edition. Previous indexer credited Allen Simon on pencils and inks. Writer credit from textual analysis by Lou Mougin.
The Silk Stocking Strangler!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Bill Finger ?
Maurice Gutwirth
?; George Klein
?
?
Subject Matter
superhero
Captain America
Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bucky [Bucky Barnes]; un-named singer (death); Policeman Cassidy; The Silk Stocking Strangler [Victor] (villain, introduction, death); Jigger (villain, introduction); Tippy (villain, introduction)
Cap and Bucky investigate the deaths of four singers, all of whom have been stranged by a silk stocking, and all because of the man's hatred of the tune, "Let Me Call You Sweetheart".
Reprinting
FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners Comics #4 [Regular Edition] published November 2011
as The Silk Stocking Strangler! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
12
D-69
Gutwirth pencils and inks by unknown and George Klein per the Masterworks edition. Previous indexer credited Vince Alascia on pencils and Harry Sahle on inks.

Writer credit suggested by textual analysis by Lou Mougin.
Time Out For Crime

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
typeset
Subject Matter
crime
Pete (a cop); Sam (a grocer); Jake (a night watchman); Mike (villain); Gus (villain)
A cop becomes very suspicious of a night watchman at the Windsor Insurance Company over something as simple as a wrist watch, and his suspicions prove to be right on the mark.
Reprinting
FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners Comics #4 [Regular Edition] published November 2011
as Time Out For Crime [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
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The Eye Has It

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Bill Finger ?
Mort Lawrence; Clem Weisbecker; Mike Sekowsky
?
?
?
Subject Matter
superhero
The Human Torch
The Human Torch [Jim Hammond]; Toro [Thomas Raymond]; Captain Pape (introduction, Captain of the whaler "Dauntless"); Betty Harriman (introduction); The Eye (villain); John Harriman (villain, Betty's supposed uncle, actually her father's step-brother)
The Torch and Toro are kidnapped at gunpoint and brought to John Harriman's mansion and given an ultimatum: one of them will marry his niece, Betty!
Reprinting
FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners Comics #4 [Regular Edition] published November 2011
as The Eye Has It [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
12
Writer credit suggested by textual analysis by Lou Mougin. Art credits from the Masterworks reprint. Previous indexer credited Allen Simon on pencils and Allen Bellman on inks.
A Joyride to Death!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
?
?
?
Subject Matter
superhero
The Whizzer
The Whizzer [Jack Robinson]; Joe (amusement park owner); un-named owner of Happyland Fun Park (villain)
The Whizzer helps put an end to an attempt by a rival amusement park owner to ruin his opposition's business.
Reprinting
FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners Comics #4 [Regular Edition] published November 2011
as A Joyride to Death! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
6
D-12
Debunker

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
?
?
?
Subject Matter
informational
Abraham Lincoln
Three questions are asked and answered in illustrated form: "Do Goats Eat Tin Cans?", "Did Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation Free All the Slaves in the South?", and "Can a Porcupine Throw It's Quills?"
Reprinting
FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners Comics #4 [Regular Edition] published November 2011
as Debunker [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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