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Issue: The Human Torch #28
Publication Date: January 1947
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Issues: #28 of 38 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Cornell Publishing Corp.
On Sale Date: 09/02/1947
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 5 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Stan Lee
Disclose Notes: 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 (#2-35); then standard Silver Age US (#36-38)
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing
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The Twins Who Weren't!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Human Torch; Toro
First Line: Torch! One of them murdered him!
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Pages: 1
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The Twins Who Weren't

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Human Torch; Toro; Joyce Clayton; Elaine Clayton; Ted; John; Lt. Walsh
First Line: The most perplexing case of their daring career...
Synopsis: Identical twins are the focus of this murder mystery. One of them is committed to an asylum after a broken off love affair convinces her that she is in love with Lancelot from Arthurian legend. The murderer plots to have her sprung from the asylum and then blamed for the killings so that he gets the girls' money.
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Pages: 12
Job Number: R-512
Disclose Notes: Possible Burgos pencils per Nick Caputo. Previously indexer credited Jimmy Thompson but after an exhaustive study of Thompson's work for Timely we can definitely say this is not Thompson.

Cover story.
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Dead End

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Genres: superhero
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Pages: 6
Job Number: 2042
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The Hanging Witness

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 2
Job Number: F-24
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Case of the Bends!

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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Sub-Mariner [Namor]; Namora; Dr. D. Mencha (villain, introduction); Mencha’s men [“Muggsie” Marvin; Michael; Simon (aid)]
Synopsis: While strolling the waterfront, Namor witnesses a girl drop dead. He diagnoses the unlikely cause as the bends and decides to investigate a nearby river dredge that he finds suspicious. There, he discovers that Dr. D. Mencha is experimenting on young girls, inflicting them with decompression sickness. Namor takes a quick trip to Betty Dean’s apartment to enlist the aid of Namora, whom he uses as bait to catch the demented scientist in the act. The plan works and with the evidence they need, the cousins round up the professor and his men for the harbor police.
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Pages: 12
Job Number: R-526
Disclose Notes: Namor remarks that he hasn’t seen “Muggsie” Marvin since 1939.

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