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Issue #20
Published Fall 1945
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details

Genre superhero
Pencils Alex Schomburg
Inks Alex Schomburg

10 page Human Torch story "Cult of Evil"

Characters V: The Black Master (I, D)
Synopsis The Black Master and his Legion of Black Worshipers send out chain letters with hypnotic gas which compels their victims to go to Black Master's location and sign over half their fortune. Black Master dies when he becomes caught in his own buzz-saw trap he had intended for Torch and Toro.
Genre superhero
Pencils Mike Sekowsky?
Inks Al Bellman?

7 page Human Torch story "Witness to Murder"

Genre superhero
Pencils Carmine Infantino
Inks Carmine Infantino

2 page text story "A Great Discovery"

Letters typeset

12 page Sub-Mariner story "The Carnival Murders"

Genre superhero
Pencils Al Gabriele?
Inks Allen Simon