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Issue: Daring Mystery Comics #4
Publication Date: May 1940
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Issues: #4 of 8 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Timely Publications
On Sale Date: 03/01/1940
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 13 (9 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Martin Goodman ?
Disclose Notes: DARING MYSTERY COMICS published monthly by Timely Publications, 8 Lord Street, Buffalo, N. Y. Entered as second class matter at the Post Office at Buffalo, N. Y. under act of March 3, 1879. Entire contents copyright by Timely Publications, 330 W. 42nd St., N. Y., N. Y. Vol 1, No. 4, May 1940. Yearly subscription $1.00. Printed in U. S. A.

On sale date from the publication date found at the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 35, 1940, Number 2. Second class permit. Copyright number 448093.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Full Color
Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U.S.
Paper Stock: Newsprint
Binding: Saddle-Stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing
Format Notes:  
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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Alex Schomburg
Inker(s): Alex Schomburg
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Feature(s): Don Gorman
Character(s): Don Gorman
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age Daring Mystery #1 [Regular Edition] published January 2008
as Daring Mystery Comics #4 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Mechanics You Need This Book- Know! Your Car

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Theo. Audel & Co.: Audels New Auto Guide
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Found on the inside front cover.
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Busting a Banker

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Will Harr ?
Penciller(s): Maurice Gutwirth [as M. Gutwirth] (signed)
Inker(s): Maurice Gutwirth [as M. Gutwirth] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Purple Mask
Character(s): The Purple Mask [Dennis Burton]; Whalen (villain, introduction); Whalen's gang (villains, introduction)
Synopsis: A daring bank robbery leads the Purple Mask after the gang responsible and he discovers that the bank's President is involved with the crime.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age Daring Mystery #1 [Regular Edition] published January 2008
as Busting a Banker [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Last Golden Age appearance under this name, but as Will Murray notes in the introduction to the second volume of Daring Mystery Masterworks, the Falcon in the next issue is just a slightly modified continuation of this character.
Dennis Burton as The Laughing Mask appears next in The Twelve (Marvel, 2008 series) #1.
Chesler shop material.
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The Zeppelin Attack

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: aviation
Feature(s): K-4 and His Sky Devils
Character(s): Sky Devils [K-4; Lt. Ronald Wolverstone; Lt. Rene D'Auvergne]; the Nazis (villains)
Synopsis: K-4 and his assistants are assigned the job of tracking down an enemy zeppelin that is being used to drop mines by parachute over vital installations.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age Daring Mystery #1 [Regular Edition] published January 2008
as The Zeppelin Attack [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Previously credited to Maurice Gutwirth (pencils) / Jack Alderman ? (inks), but the Masterworks lists this as by unknown artists despite tentatively identifying Alderman as the artist of the K-4 story in issue #2 and Gutwirth as the artist on several other features.

Chesler shop material (based on panel borders and general look and feel compared to other stories in this issue).
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Larry Antonette (signed)
Penciller(s): Larry Antonette (signed)
Inker(s): Larry Antonette (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, occult, superhero
Feature(s): Monako Prince of Magic
Character(s): Monako; Josie; Mr. Muro (villain); Tashu (villain; introduction)
First Line: Monako is on the trail of an Oriental fiend who is trying to...
Synopsis: Monako must go up against his old enemy, Muro, who is attempting to gain control of the Pacific and west coastal areas of the Americas, specifically the Panama Canal.
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In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age Daring Mystery #1 [Regular Edition] published January 2008
as On the Trail of Muro [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: Funnies, Inc. material.

Creator credits confirmed by Shaun Clancy and the Comics History Exchange list on Facebook from the personal records of Larry Antonette which included pages of stories he worked on torn from the original comic books (21 February 2015).
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Mars Attacks

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Fletcher Hanks
Penciller(s): Fletcher Hanks
Inker(s): Fletcher Hanks
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Fletcher Hanks
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Whirlwind Carter of the Interplanetary Secret Service
Character(s): Whirlwind Carter (introduction); Brenda Hale (introduction); the Martians (villains, introduction)
First Line: 'Whirlwind' lives on the highly civilized planet of Venus...
Synopsis: Carter rescues an Earth girl, Brenda Hale, who is agent of the Space Army, Women's Division, 4th Regiment and whose ship has been grounded by the Martians, and he learns that Mars intends on invading the Earth to make it one of her colonies.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age Daring Mystery #1 [Regular Edition] published January 2008
as Mars Attacks [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagYou Shall Die by Your Own Evil Creation! #[nn] published June 2009
as Mars Attacks [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Likely produced through the Iger shop along with all of Hanks' other known output.
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The Spike Green Case

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Hal Sharp
Inker(s): Hal Sharp
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Marvex the Super Robot
Character(s): Marvex; Jim Hansen (introduction); Clara Grandall; Spike Green (villain, introduction) Spike's gang (villains, introduction)
Synopsis: Marvex looks into the troubling case of a man sitting on death row awaiting execution for a crime in which witnesses in his favor disappeared mysteriously before the trial.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age Daring Mystery #1 [Regular Edition] published January 2008
as The Spike Green Case [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagAll Select Comics 70th Anniversary Special #1 [unnamed variant] published September 2009
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Chesler shop material.
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The Missing Airliner Fleet

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Alex Schomburg ?; Gus Ricca ? (see notes)
Inker(s): Alex Schomburg ?; Gus Ricca ? (see notes)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: aviation
Feature(s): G-Man Don Gorman
Character(s): Don Gorman (introduction); Betty Nestor (introduction); Anson Dictor (villain, introduction); Nazis (villains)
Synopsis: Foreign agents attempt to steal the secret super-charged engine invented by test pilot Don Gorman, an invention allowing airplanes to achieve speeds over 1000 mph!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age Daring Mystery #1 [Regular Edition] published January 2008
as The Missing Airliner Fleet [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: This character subsequently appears as Captain Daring and his Sky Sharks in USA Comics (Marvel, 1941 series) #7 (March 1943) illustrated by Alex Schomburg (signed) with an unknown writer.

Some believe this looks more like Schomburg (whose interior illustration style was simpler than his cover illustration style) than Gus Ricca.

Some observe that Schomburg illustrating this story may explain why it was chosen for the cover feature, but the depiction of a suit-wearing tommy gun-wielding Don Gorman on the cover is completely unlike the aviator character in this story, which seems odd if both were produced by Schomburg.

If this is by Schomburg, it was almost certainly produced as a freelance job, as Schomburg produced Timely's covers as a freelancer. Gus Ricca would imply a Chesler shop job, although the thicker borders that appear on other Chesler stories in this issue are absent, making the Ricca credit less likely. Given the mixture of source in this issue, it is difficult to come up with a more likely theory.
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The World of Savages

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jack Binder [as Binder] (signed)
Inker(s): Jack Binder [as Binder] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, aviation
Feature(s): Breeze Barton
Character(s): Breeze Barton; Ann Barclay; Frenchy (introduction); a band of savages (villains, introduction), their chief (villain, introduction, death)
Synopsis: Breeze has made good his escape from Miracle City with Ann and enter into the civilized world, where they are informed by Frenchy that civilization as they knew it had been destroyed by the War of 1945.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age Daring Mystery #1 [Regular Edition] published January 2008
as The World of Savages [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Chesler shop material.
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Outlaw-Buster

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Rex Evans (signed)
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Character(s): Sheriff Holcolm; Cougar Karns (villain); "Mile Away" Morgan (villain)
Synopsis: Sheriff Holcolm intends on cleaning out the criminal activities in Ambush Canyon.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age Daring Mystery #1 [Regular Edition] published January 2008
as Outlaw-Buster [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Studio source unknown, although possibly produced in-house.
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The Secret Soldier

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Arnold Hicks (see notes)
Inker(s): Arnold Hicks; ? (see notes)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Feature(s): Trojak the Tiger Man
Character(s): Trojak; Balu (the tiger); Edith Alton; Jerry Alton (introduction, Edith's brother); the Nazis (villains)
Synopsis: Edith's brother, a member of the Nazi forces, convinces Edith to keep Trojak out of their invasion attempts, not knowing it's all a plan to capture Trojak.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age Daring Mystery #1 [Regular Edition] published January 2008
as The Secret Soldier [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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[untitled]

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Remington Deluxe Noiseless Portable Typewriter
First Line: This Beautiful Desk for Only $1.00
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Found on the inside back cover.
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Money and Big Prizes

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): The Crowell-Collier Publishing Co.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Found on the back cover.

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