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Issue Details

Issue #25
Published November 1941
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing Joe Simon

Cover Details - "Only the Torch and Toro stood between the Sub-Mariner and the Nazi firing squad"

Characters Human Torch [Jim Hammond]; Toro; Sub-Mariner
Pencils Alex Schomburg
Inks Alex Schomburg

15 page Human Torch story "The King Crime Syndicate"

Characters The King; Rocky
Synopsis A numbers gangster decides to move into healthcare by kidnapping pharmacists and forcing them to create black market drugs. He shoots one of them at the hospital when he protests and he throws another into a vat of acid in his hideout chemical lab when the man refuses to produce drugs that are dangerous to people. Torch and Toro set off an explosion which kills the gangster.
Genre superhero
Script Carl Burgos
Pencils Carl Burgos
Inks Carl Burgos

12 page Sub-Mariner story "The Little People"

Characters Dorma; Betty Dean; Luther Robinson; Lynne Harris; Queen Jarna; the Lavorites ("the Little People"); Joseph; German spies
Genre superhero
Script Bill Everett
Pencils Bill Everett
Inks Bill Everett
Letters Bill Everett
Notes continued next issue

5 page Patriot story "Patriot Downs Nazi"

Characters Huss; Garrett; Garrett's butler
Genre superhero
Script Ray Gill ?
Pencils Sid Greene
Inks Sid Greene

2 page text story "Marvel Get-Together"

Characters Human Torch; Toro; Terry Vance; Angel; Patriot; Ka-Zar; Sub-Mariner
Script Stan Lee
Letters typeset
Notes continued next issue

7 page Terry Vance story "The Forest Fire Saboteur"

Characters Deadline Dawson; Bull Dawson; a Nazi arsonist
Genre detective
Script Ray Gill
Pencils Bob Oksner
Inks Bob Oksner

6 page Ka-Zar story "The Vengeance of Saba"

Characters Saba; Ali Hamud; Capt. Olendorff
Genre jungle
Script Ben Thompson
Pencils Ben Thompson
Inks Ben Thompson
Notes continued next issue

7 page Vision story "The Book of Sorcery"

Characters Enric Zagnar
Genre superhero
Script Joe Simon; Jack Kirby
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Joe Simon
Reprinted in Marvel Super-Heroes (Marvel, 1967 series) #13 (March 1968); in Golden Age of Marvel (Marvel, 1997 series) #nn

9 page Angel story "The Python and the Prison Riot"

Characters The Python
Genre superhero
Pencils Al Avison
Inks Al Gabriele