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Issue Details

Issue #29
Published March 1942
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing Stan Lee?

Cover Details - "Death Stalks the Shipyard"

Genre superhero
Pencils Alex Schomburg
Inks Alex Schomburg
Reprinted In Marvel Super-Heroes #16 (September 1968)

15 page Human Torch story "The Moonlight Murders"

Characters V: The Javelin (I; Reginald Carter)
Synopsis The Javelin is a big game hunter who has contracted a rare disease which drives him to kill at certain times of the month. He uses carbon dioxide gas to put out Torch and Toro's flame and overpowers them. He makes it appear to police that they have killed a girl so the police chief attempts to arrest them but they resist arrest in order to track down the Javelin. When they apprehend him and turn him over to the cops, the police chief forgives them.
Genre superhero
Script Carl Burgos
Pencils Carl Burgos
Inks Carl Burgos

12 page Sub-Mariner story "The Item of the Mad Artist"

Characters V: Stefan Natas (I, D; Anton Devere)
Genre superhero
Script Bill Everett
Pencils Bill Everett
Inks Bill Everett

7 page Vision story "The Mine of Terror"

Characters V: Legs Cachone (I, D)
Genre superhero
Script Stan Lee?
Pencils Syd Shores
Inks Syd Shores

2 page text story "The Ship In the Desert"

Script Mickey Spillane
Letters typeset
Notes Reprint note from Arthur Lortie, August 2008.
Reprinted in Primal Spillane: Early Stories 1941-1942 (Gryphon Books, 2004 series)

7 page Terry Vance story "The Mystery of the Stinging Death"

Characters GS: Deadline Dawson; V: Senor Revuelta (I); I: Diosa
Genre detective
Script Ray Gill
Pencils Bob Oksner
Inks Bob Oksner

6 page Jimmy Jupiter story "The Witches of Encore"

Characters V: The Witches of Encore (I; one D); I: Ruffy Rabbit
Genre children; fantasy
Script Ed Robbins
Pencils Ed Robbins
Inks Ed Robbins

8 page Angel story "The Wolf-Man Terror"

Characters V: The Wolf-Man (I, D; Gonji)
Genre superhero
Pencils Al Fagaly?
Inks Al Fagaly?

6 page Patriot story "Death Stalks the Shipyard"

Characters V: Grosse (I, D)
Genre superhero
Pencils Al Fagaly
Inks Al Fagaly
Reprinted in Marvel Super-Heroes (Marvel, 1967 series) #16 (September 1968)