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Issue Details

Issue #85
Published February 1948
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing Stan Lee*

Cover Details

Genre superhero
Pencils Vince Alascia
Inks Vince Alascia

12 page Human Torch story "Murders From the Past"

Characters The Turtle (introduction, villain)
Synopsis Cleopatra Vance, a member of the Famous Names Club, asks the Torch for help because she thinks that Nathan Hale is going to be hanged. Torch and Toro head over to the address that she provides and they find a body. Leaving the scene is a hired criminal known as the Turtle. After Lincoln is shot by the Turtle, Cleopatra tells Torch that Julius Caesar must be the killer since she and he are the only two members left, and the last surviving member is beneficiary of investments the club has made. After Toro is slugged, and Nathan Hale's body disappears, Torch suspects Hale of attempting to throw off suspicion and apprehends both him and the Turtle when the latter tries to assassinate Caesar.
Genre superhero
Pencils Mike Sekowsky ?
Notes Inks credits originally given to Mike Sekowsky in error (per Tony Isabella, March 30, 2006)

12 page Sub-Mariner story "Blackbeard, Scourge of the Seas"

Characters Namora (guest); Betty Dean (guest); Blackbeard (introduction, villain)
Genre superhero
Pencils Bill Everett
Inks Bill Everett

7 page Miss America story "Final Reckoning (Ch. 10)"

Characters Rex Harr (villain); Miss America
Genre superhero
Pencils Ken Bald
Inks Ken Bald
Notes Chapter 10 of serial; Miss America's next appearance in GIANT-SIZE AVENGERS #1

8 page Blonde Phantom story "The Dummy Is No Dummy"

Genre superhero
Pencils Syd Shores
Inks Ken Bald