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Issue Details

Issue #46
Published August 1943
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 60
Editing Vince Fago?

Cover Details

Genre superhero
Pencils Alex Schomburg
Inks Alex Schomburg

12 page Human Torch story "The Glass Tube of Death"

Characters V: Moonface (I, D)
Synopsis A Nazi agent named Moonface captures Torch and Toro by placing them into a glass tube which he plans to connect with a timer on bombs underneath the capitol building. Torch finds that he can flame with his finger so the capsule must have a small leak. He superheats the glass so that it shatters and Moonface, realizing that his plans have been ruined, grabs live wires electrocuting himself.
Genre superhero
Pencils Harry Sahle
Inks Harry Sahle
Notes The names of many Timely artists are used as in-jokes on signs.

12 page Sub-Mariner story "Dead Men Don't Talk"

Characters V: Prof. Jurg (I)
Genre superhero
Pencils Carl Pfeufer
Inks Carl Pfeufer

7 page Terry Vance story "Case of the War Plant Fires"

Characters GS: Deadline Dawson; V: Thomas Miller (I), Von Boering (I)
Genre detective
Script Ray Gill?
Pencils Bob Oksner
Inks Bob Oksner

2 page text story "The Last Train Out"

Letters typeset

7 page Vision story "Incident In Poland"

Characters V: Felix Pavlek (I, D); I: Baron Pavlek (Felix's brother) and Baroness Pavlek
Genre superhero
Pencils Syd Shores
Notes Story takes place during the Nazi invasion of Poland, predating the first Vision story in #13. Inks credits originally given to Mike Sekowsky in error (per Tony Isabella, March 30, 2006)

7 page Jimmy Jupiter story "Barnyard Valley"

Characters I: Pete Porker (I; a pig; possibly ancestor of Spider-Ham??), Queen and King of Barnyard Valley; V: The Jeeper (I; a living tractor)
Genre children; fantasy
Script Gus Hetman
Pencils Gus Hetman
Inks Gus Hetman

8 page Angel story "Blackout Kidnapping"

Characters V: Fiske, Greeves, and Carteret (I, D for all); I: Lord Carteret and Penny Carteret (his daughter)
Genre superhero
Script Roy Garn?
Pencils Gustav Schrotter
Inks Gustav Schrotter