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Issue: Marvel Mystery Comics #87

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Publication Date: November 1948

Issue #87
- ✔ #87
- #88
- #89
- #90
- #92
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Issues: #87 of 5 Issues

Title:

Variant: unnamed

Rating:

Publisher: Flag

Bell Features

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Indicia Publisher: Bell Features and Publishing Company Limited

On Sale Date: 1948

Volume:

Pages: 36

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.10 CAD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 5 (4 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s): ?

Notes: Undated Canadian edition, with page-count reduced to 36 (from 52), which reprints U.S. Marvel Mystery Comics (Marvel, 1939 series); the cover is from #87 (August 1948); with interior comprising the Blonde Phantom, Human Torch and Sub-Mariner stories from #88 (October 1948)

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: Four Colour interiors; full colour cover

Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.

Paper Stock: newsprint interior; glossy cover

Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

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1 Content Item
- [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]1

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Cover, Front

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Content Items (5 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Penciller(s): Don Rico ?

Inker(s): Don Rico ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): The Human Torch

Character(s): Human Torch [Jim Hammond]

First Line: Ain't it comical, Goldie -- 'Killer Marries Star Witness' -- ha ha!

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Marvel Mystery Comics #87 published August 1948
was [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

The Lethal Lollipops

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Ken Bald

Inker(s): Ken Bald

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Human Torch

Character(s): Sun Girl (guest-star)

Synopsis: A surgeon smuggles diamonds into the country inside lollipops which get left in a cab. A little girl eats one of the lollipops and needs surgery to have the diamond removed. The surgeon was toying with the idea of a life of crime since he had lost his faith in his medical skills, but after Torch demands he save the life of the little girl, his faith is restored in himself and he abandons all criminal intent.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 12

Notes: Art credits from GCD index of original comic.

Black Oil of Doom

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Joe Millard ?

Penciller(s): Mike Sekowsky

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Sub-Mariner

Character(s): Namora (guest-star); Bryan Porter (villain, introduction)

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 10

Notes: Art credits from GCD index of original comic.

Roll Out the Barrel

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

Job Number: SL-3203

The Clown Who Couldn't Laugh

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Al Gabriele

Inker(s): Al Gabriele

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Blonde Phantom

Character(s): Jeepo (introduction); Jerry (introduction); Chuck (villain, introduction); another crook (villain, introduction)

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 8

Notes: Art credits from GCD index of original comic.