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Issue: Marvel Mystery Comics #31
Publication Date: May 1942
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Issues: #31 of 91 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Timely Comics, Inc.
On Sale Date: 03/17/1942
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 9 (8 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Funnies, Inc. [Lloyd Jacquett]
Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1942, New Series, Vol. 37, No. 2.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Full Color
Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U.S. (through about early 1944, narrower thereafter)
Paper Stock: Newsprint
Binding: Saddle-Stitched
Publishing Format: Monthly (through July 1944, variable thereafter)
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Al Gabriele (signed)
Inker(s): Al Gabriele (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Human Torch
Character(s): Human Torch; Toro
First Line: Blazing fury met the murderous Japs as the Human Torch zoomed into the fray!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Artist signature appears near the bottom of the cover, partially obscured by the text box.
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Scuttle the Japs

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Carl Burgos
Penciller(s): Carl Burgos (signed)
Inker(s): Carl Burgos ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Human Torch
Character(s): Admiral Nodope (villain, introduction, death); Fooey (villain, introduction); Japanese (villains, many deaths)
Synopsis: After the attack on Pearl Harbor the Japanese send a carrier with planes to bomb San Francisco. Torch and Toro destroy all the planes but one and trail it back to the carrier. Toro wants to sink the carrier but Torch has them stowaway aboard Admiral Nodope's ship in order to free the imprisoned marines. Torch and Toro scuttle the carrier and Nodope's superior demands he stop the escaping marines. Torch melts the American steel over the Japanese and burns the snipers alive in their perches and the marines board a boat for home. As they go, Torch leaves a flaming 'V' in the sky above Japan.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
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The Case of the Jilted Japs or "They Had a Date at San Diego!"

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bill Everett
Penciller(s): Bill Everett (signed)
Inker(s): Bill Everett (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Bill Everett
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Sub-Mariner
Character(s): The Japanese (villains)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
Disclose Notes: Takes place December 11-14, 1941.
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The Plague of the Jelly Men

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Ramona Patenaude ?
Inker(s): Ramona Patenaude ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Vision
Character(s): The "Jelly Men" (villain, introduction, death, a mass of living protoplasm); the Japanese (villains, many deaths)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Formerly credited to Stan Lee. Story is not signed. Art formerly credited to Vince Alascia and David Walters. Vince Alascia is not listed in Jerry Bails' Who's Who as ever working on the Vision and David Walters doesn't exist. Ramona Patenaude is credited with drawing the Vision during this time period by Bails. Compare her signed covers on Fox's Blue Beetle #10 and Mystery Men #29
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Killer's Return

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Mickey Spillane
Letterer(s): typeset
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Reprint Notes: in Primal Spillane: Early Stories 1941-1942 (Gryphon Books, 2004 series)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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The Insects of Sudden Death!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Al Fagaly (signed)
Inker(s): Al Fagaly ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Patriot
Character(s): Patriot [Jeff Mace]; Otto (villain, introduction, death); the Nazis (villains); Jack Casey; Mary Morgan
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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The Mystery of the Murdered Ghost

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Ray Gill
Penciller(s): Bob Oksner
Inker(s): Bob Oksner
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Terry Vance
Character(s): The Ghost Rider (introduction, death); Roney (villain, introduction, death); Deadline Dawson (guest-star)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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In The Land of the Fun People

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Ed Robbins
Penciller(s): Ed Robbins [as Robin] (signed)
Inker(s): Ed Robbins [as Robin] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, fantasy
Feature(s): Jimmy Jupiter
Character(s): Jimmy Jupiter; The Candy Men (introduction); The Gloomy Gusses (villain)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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Cargo of Death

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Gus Schrotter ?
Inker(s): Gus Schrotter ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Angel
Character(s): The Angel; Gondor (villain, introduction)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: Art previously credited to Al Fagaly, who drew the Patriot story in this issue and clearly is not the same person who drew this. Compare the art to the signed stories by Schrotter in issues 40 and 42-45. atlastales.com lists unknown art.

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