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Marvel Mystery Comics (1939) comic books graded by CBCS

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    Marvel Mystery Comics (1939) 5 CBCS 0.5

    Paper: Off white to white

    Back cover missing. INCOMPLETE. Front cover & centerfold detached. 1 piece of tape on 1st wrap. 1 staple added.

    Label #22-19ee5d2-004

    Starts Apr 6

    Cover art by Alex Schomburg. Human Torch untitled story, script and art by Carl Burgos; A medical emergency and crisis in the city of Orton during a blizzard forces the Torch to make a trip to that town with a plane full of medical supplies. Unfortunately, the plane crash lands and the supplies stolen by a couple of escaped convicts. The Angel untitled story, art by Paul Gustavson; The Angel rescues a girl and prevents a gang of bank robbers from successfully making a getaway with their loot. Sub-Mariner untitled story, script and art by Bill Everett; Namor, after successfully ending the mine and sub menace in the Atlantic, briefly visits home, then heads back to America to help out with ending non-war related crime. The Masked Raider untitled story, art by Al Anders; The Raider must deduce the reason behind a series of murders by poisoned arrow that occur close to election day. It's In the Cards text story, script by Ray Gill, art by Harry Ramsey. Electro, the Marvel of the Age untitled story, art by Steve Dahlman; Professor Zog informs Operatives #1 and #4 that he is going to displatch Electro and them to the Republic of Molivia, which has been attacked and invaded by the dictator armies of Kalph Belgri, who seeks to control that nation. Ferret Mystery Detective untitled story, script by Stockbridge Winslow, art by Irwin Hasen; The death of an underground stoolie and a piece of blank paper leads Ferret to uncover a major counterfeiting ring. Advenures of Ka-Zar the Great untitled story, art by Ben Thompson; When De Kraft learns that David Rand [aka Ka-Zar] still lives, he tracks down the "Jungle God" and takes him captive, arranging a rather protracted and cruel death for him. 68 pages. Cover price $0.10.

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    • Paper: Off white to white
    • Label #16-23F4BA7-001

    Cover art by Alex Schomburg. "The Result of the Most Famous Battle in Comic Magazines," script by Bill Everett, Carl Burgos, and John Compton, art by Everett and Burgos; Trapped in a translite tube, only the intervention of Betty Dean saves the Torch and ends the battle between him and Namor. Human Torch untitled story, script and art by Carl Burgos; Torch must battle a gas syndicate who tries to raise the price of gasoline, and bombs any gas station refusing to go along. Sub-Mariner untitled story, script and art by Bill Everett; Because of Namor's seemingly inability to handle the Torch, he is suspended from all active service; Meanwhile, a group of hardened ice field seamen, led by Luther Robinson, seek out the Sub-Mariner to destroy him. The Angel untitled story, art by Paul Gustavson; The Angel must cope with weird "devils of the mist," who have been released from the bowels of the earth by a volcano, and who are kidnapping young women top side to sacrifice to that volcano. Electro, the Marvel of the Age untitled story, art by Steve Dahlman; Electro is called into service to battle an evil, now insane, ex-genius of brain surgery, stationed in an old castle somewhere off the coast of Cuba, who has successfully created artifical blood. Tiger Trail text story, script by Beach Allen, art by Ed Robins. The Masked Raider untitled story, art by Al Anders; A criminal who has fatally wounded a tax collector sees the Raider, and works out a scheme to convince the Sheriff that the Raider is the murderer...all as a blind to steal the tax money himself. "The Murder of a Man Without a Will," script by Ray Gill, art by Bob Oksner; While Terry Vance, the Boy of a Hundred Hobbies" works on an experiment, he hears a police call of someone murdered in a penthouse. Advenures of Ka-Zar the Great untitled story, art by Ben Thompson; A wanted criminal captures two Scotland Yard detectives and leaves them for dead, while he attempts to fly out of the jungle to freedom. 68 pages. Cover price $0.10.

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  • Item #58893122
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    • Conserved
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Amateur Conservation Includes: Cover reattached & interior reinforced with glue. Four pieces of tape on interior cover.
    • Label #19-1A14335-028

    Cover art by Alex Schomburg. Captain America Comics ad. "The Poison Pill Suicides" starring The Human Torch, story and art by Carl Burgos; Torch and Toro are invited to lead the Coney Island Mardi Gras pageant, but a henchman of a gunrunner named Izan succeeds in interrupting the event with a bomb before committing suicide with a poison pill rather than facing his boss's judgment to be drowned for failure. "The Flying Dutchman" starring Sub-Mariner, script and art by Bill Everett; Intrigued by four ship sinkings by a mysterious 18th-century ghost ship, Namor figures that the tremendous loss of gold shipments carried aboard those ships must be the work of a 20th-century pirate who has bolted the ghost ship to a submarine. Young Allies Comics ad. The Vision untitled story, script by Jack Kirby and Joe Simon, pencils by Kirby and David Walters, inks by Walters; The Vision comes to Earth to battle the "Mad Man of Science", Dr. Korbeau, who has discovered the secret of man's soul and how to remove it; Korbeau removes the souls of seven of his scientific competitors. "The Sea of Grassy Death" text story, script by Mickey Spillane. "The Green-Faced Man,", art by Al Fagaly; The celebrated trial of the Green-Faced Man is interrupted when the prisoner's gang frees him with an attack of gas; However, the Patriot tracks him down. "The Case of the Deadly Letters" starring Terry Vance, script by Ray Gill, art by Bob Oksner; Terry and Deadline suspect that Hollywood director Aubrey de Woode did not commit suicide, but was murdered, and they suspect the dead man's nephew, even though the police have ruled the young man out as a suspect. "Strange Adventures in the Land of Nowhere" starring Jimmy Jupiter, script and art by Ed Robbins; Jimmy is taken up in an airplane but forgets to fasten his safety belt, and falls out of the plane, landing on a soft cloud; He discovers he is in the Land of Nowhere. "The Horror of the Haunted Cathedral" starring Angel; General Henchel faces the prospect of suicide because of his blunder along the German-Russian Front, but instead he makes a hasty departure by submarine to America. 68 pages. Cover price $0.10.

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  • Item #60147508
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    • Paper: Off white
    • Centerfold Detached.
    • Label #23-380F459-003
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    Cover art by Syd Shores. The Golden Calf Murders starring Human Torch, art by Al Bellman. Last Voyage of Cap'n Frome starring Sub-Mariner, pencils by Allen Simon, inks by Al Bellman. An Unwelcome Visitor starring Miss America, art by Ken Bald. Menace at Midnight starring Young Allies, script by Stan Lee, art by Al Bellman. Without Warning starring Angle, art by Carmine Infantino. 52 pages. Cover price $0.10.

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