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Issue Details

Issue #23
Published September 1941
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing Joe Simon

Cover Details - "As Toro faced death..."

Characters Human Torch [Jim Hammond]; Toro
Genre superhero
Pencils Alex Schomburg
Inks Alex Schomburg

15 page Human Torch story "Highway of Mystery"

Characters The Leader; Sigmund; Rudolph
Synopsis N-4, a Nazi saboteur, has infiltrated the Topper Tank factory as an executive secretary. She has her men build a hideout above a superhighway so that she can drop a ramp to capture experimental models of a new tank during transit. She is unmasked by Torch and Toro.
Genre superhero
Script Carl Burgos
Pencils Carl Burgos
Inks Carl Burgos

12 page Sub-Mariner story "The Case of the Vanishing Convicts"

Characters Prof. Dorn; Ramon Valerez; Black John; Mona
Genre superhero
Script Bill Everett
Pencils Bill Everett
Inks Bill Everett
Letters Bill Everett
Reprinted in Marvel Mystery Comics (Marvel, 1999 series) #1 (December 1999).

5 page Patriot story "Swastika Over Europe"

Characters Howard
Genre superhero
Script Ray Gill
Pencils Art Gates
Inks Art Gates

2 page text story "The Vision Speaks"

Characters The Vision; The Law-Giver; Markham Ericson
Script Stan Lee
Letters typeset
Notes takes place before issue #13

7 page Vision story "Cult of the Shark-god"

Characters Kai-Mak
Genre superhero
Script Joe Simon; Jack Kirby
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Joe Simon

6 page Ka-Zar story "Neutralizing the Nazis"

Characters the Nazis
Genre jungle
Script Ben Thompson
Pencils Ben Thompson
Inks Ben Thompson

7 page Terry Vance story "The Mystery of the Green Diamond"

Characters Deadline Dawson
Genre detective
Script Ray Gill
Pencils Bob Oksner
Inks Bob Oksner

9 page Angel story "Death On Inferno Isle"

Characters Von Reiman
Genre superhero
Pencils Al Avison
Inks Al Gabriele