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Issue Details

Issue #80
Published January 1947
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 52
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details

Pencils Charles Nicholas
Inks Charles Nicholas

12 page Human Torch story "Murder Melodies"

Characters V: Sidney Otis (I)
Synopsis A music publisher sees his chance to knock off his partners and pin the blame onto a singer named Celment he also framed years ago for a theft when the singer's time is up and he's released from jail. The killer sends death threats along with records of Clement's songs giving clues as to where the murder will take place. He manages to stay one step ahead of Torch and Toro to pull off his murders, but once they escape from his death trap, he confesses all and clears Clement's name.
Genre superhero
Pencils Jimmy Thompson
Inks Jimmy Thompson

12 page Sub-Mariner story "The Mad Hatter Mystery"

Characters GS: Betty Dean; V: The Mad Hatter (I; Roy Clark), Alice Grant (I), Edna (I)
Genre superhero
Pencils Al Gabriele
Inks Carl Pfeufer?

7 page Miss America story "Flaming Death (Ch. 5)"

Characters V: Rex Herr
Genre superhero
Pencils Ken Bald
Inks Ken Bald
Notes Part 5 of serial

2 page text story "Death Rides the Slope"

Letters typeset

7 page Young Allies story "Murder For a Laugh"

Characters V: Joe Diller (I)
Genre superhero
Pencils Gustav Schrotter
Inks Gustav Schrotter

7 page Captain America story "The Howling Mummy"

Characters GS: Bucky; V: The Howling Mummy (I; Quentin Ford)
Genre superhero
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Syd Shores
Inks Al Avison