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Issue: Marvel Mystery Comics #88
Publication Date: October 1948
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Issues: #88 of 91 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 06/20/1948
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, Vol. 2, Part 2, No. 2, 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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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Sub-Mariner
Character(s): Blonde Phantom; Human Torch [Jim Hammond]; Sun Girl; Sub-Mariner
First Line: We certainly deserve this period of relaxtion after everything that happens to us inside this magazine!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Possible Alascia inks per Nick Caputo. Previous indexer credited Don Rico.
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The Lethal Lollipops

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
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
Job Number: 3328
Disclose Notes: Klein inks per Nick Caputo. Previous indexer credited Ken Bald.
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Black Oil of Doom

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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
Job Number: 3355
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Roll Out the Barrel

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): ? (illustration)
Inker(s): ? (illustration)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 2
Job Number: SL-3203
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Doomed--One Town

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): B. Grimes (introduction); Sherry Grimes (introduction); Jenkins (introduction)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Job Number: 3455
Disclose Notes: Possible Nicholas pencils and Klein inks per Nick Caputo. previous indexer credited Syd Shores on pencils and inks.
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The Wound No Man Could See

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Golden Girl (guest-star); Col. Ross (Golden Girl's father?, introduction); Chuck M. Berry (introduction); Jerry Malcolm (introduction); Penny Collyer (introduction)
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Pages: 7
Job Number: 3447
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The Clown Who Couldn't Laugh

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Writer(s): ?
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Jeepo (introduction); Jerry (introduction); Chuck (villain, introduction); another crook (villain, introduction)
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Pages: 8
Job Number: 3452

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