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Issue: Marvel Mystery Comics #74
Publication Date: July 1946
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Issues: #74 of 91 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 05/15/1946
Volume: 1
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 7 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Part 2, Periodicals, 1946-1947.
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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
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Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Human Torch [Jim Hammond]; Toro
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In Content Item: FlagMarvel Mystery Comics #1 published December 1999
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Patch on the doorman's shoulder indicates the events are happening at the "Timely Club", a nod to this magazine's original publisher title.
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Escape from Doom

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Crusher (villain, introduction); Steely (villain, introduction); their gang (villains, introductions); GUEST: Toro
First Line: (sigh) When he dies, our chance of nabbing 'Steely', dies with him.
Synopsis: Crusher is scheduled to die in the electric chair but plans to escape using the Torch's help. He has the warden call the Torch and tell him he's willing to talk about his partner. Arriving at the prison the warden's little girl is smitten with Toro. Torch finds this amusing and convinces the warden to allow the girl to accompany them to Crusher's cell. Crusher takes the kids hostage forcing Torch to burn an underground tunnel where Steely is waiting for them. In the getaway car Toro uses the girl's hair ribbon to write Torch a message. Torch rescues the kids and the felons are apprehended.
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Pages: 12
Job Number: R-227
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Sting of the Bat!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Bat [Mona Welles] (vampire, villain, introduction, death)
First Line: On a lonely island where the foaming sea pounds against black rocks ---
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Pages: 12
Job Number: R-288
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Red Is for Gore

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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Carnation Joe (villain, introduction)
First Line: Still no job, eh, Norton?
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Pages: 7
Job Number: R-321
Disclose Notes: Writer credit from textual analysis by Lou Mougin.
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Road of Destiny

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: A solitary figure walked slowly down the hill leading away from the farm-house.
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Pages: 2
Job Number: S-20 ?
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The Ambassador of Death

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Two spies (villains, introductions)
First Line: There's a reception being given tonight in the White House for newly arrived ambassadors.
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Pages: 7
Job Number: R-203
Disclose Notes: Patriot next appears as Captain America III in WHAT IF? #4 and CAPTAIN AMERICA COMICS #59
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The Saga of Sunshine O'Hara

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Sunshine O'Hara (introduction); Lefty (villain, introduction); his gang (villains, introductions)
First Line: It started one day at the station...
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Pages: 7
Job Number: R-253

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