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Issue: Marvel Mystery Comics #85
Publication Date: February 1948
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Issues: #85 of 91 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 10/28/1947
Volume: 1
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 6 (5 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Vol. 2, Part 2, No. 1, Periodicals, 1948.
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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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Murders from the Past!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Human Torch; Toro; Cleopatra
First Line: We've got the goods on you now, Cleopatra!
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Shores pencils per Michael J. Vassallo and Nick Caputo. Atlas Tales credited Vince Alascia.
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Murders from the Past

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Turtle (introduction, villain); the Human Torch; Toro; Cleopatra Vance
First Line: Somebody's at the door!
Synopsis: Cleopatra Vance, member of the Famous Names Club, asks the Torch for help, believing that Nathan Hale is going to be hanged. The Torches go to the address Vance provides and they find a body. Leaving the scene is the hired criminal, the Turtle. Next, Lincoln is shot by the Turtle; Cleopatra tells Torch that Julius Caesar must be the killer since she and he are the only two members left; the last surviving member is beneficiary of club investments. Torch suspects Hale of attempting to throw off suspicion and apprehends him and the Turtle when the latter tries to assassinate Caesar.
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Pages: 12
Job Number: 1679
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Blackbeard... Scourge of the Seas!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Sub-Mariner [Namor]; Namora; Betty Dean; Blackbeard (villain, introduction)
First Line: Hello? These islands are supposed to be uninhabited!
Synopsis: When the S.S. Hardy strikes some rocks in a tropical storm and sinks, Namor and Namora learn it was no accident, but the work of a salvage ship captain called Blackbeard, who drums up business by luring ships into dangerous waters. With the help of Betty Dean, who happened to be a passenger on the Hardy, the aquatic duo instigate a mutiny against Blackbeard, buying time for the authorities to arrive.
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Pages: 12
Job Number: R-529
Disclose Notes: The Blackbeard in this story should not be confused with the 18th-century pirate of the same name.
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Final Reckoning (Chapter 10)

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Miss America [Madeline Joyce]; Rex Harr (villain)
First Line: Thanks for my freedom!
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Pages: 7
Job Number: R-427
Disclose Notes: Chapter 10 of serial. Miss America next appears in Sun Girl (Marvel, 1948 series) #1 (August 1948).

Possible Rule inks per Nick Caputo. Previous indexer credited Ken Bald.
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Once a Soldier

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
First Line: Staff sergeant Lindstrom checked over his roster sheet and found his detail fully accounted for.
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Pages: 2
Job Number: 1732
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The Dummy Is No Dummy

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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
First Line: As usual, the papers give me credit!
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Pages: 8
Job Number: 1553

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