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Issue: Marvel Mystery Comics #37
Publication Date: November 1942
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Issues: #37 of 91 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Timely Comics, Inc.
On Sale Date: 09/18/1942
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 9 (8 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Vince Fago ?
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. 4.
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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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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Syd Shores ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Human Torch and the Sub-Mariner
Character(s): Human Torch [Jim Hammond]; Sub-Mariner
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Unknown inks per Nick Caputo. Previous indexer credited Syd Shores.
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The Fingerprints of Doom

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Harry Sahle ?
Inker(s): Harry Sahle ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Human Torch
Character(s): Stumpy (Villain; Intro)
Synopsis: Ex-convicts with a grudge for the city officials whom they blame for their incarceration hatch a plot for revenge. They frame an ex-governor for kidnapping and they also frame a bank president of robbing his own vault by getting the intended victim to handle something which they make fake sets of fingerprints off and leave at crime scenes. They are planning to frame the mayor when Torch and Toro figure out the crooks behind the scheme and apprehend them.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
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The Copper Plague!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Carl Pfeufer ?
Inker(s): Carl Pfeufer ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Sub-Mariner
Character(s): Princess Fen; Adolf Hitler (Villain); Captain Kornstalk (Villain; Intro; Death)
Synopsis: Namor gets a head wound in this story.
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Pages: 12
Disclose Notes: Letters originally credited to "Sam Rosen ?" but this is unlikely since his earliest credits for Marvel seem to be from 1950.
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His Halloween Adventure

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Ed Robbins ?
Penciller(s): Ed Robbins ?
Inker(s): Ed Robbins ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, fantasy
Feature(s): Jimmy Jupiter
Character(s): Ghosts (Intro); Evil spirits (Villain; Intro)
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Pages: 7
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Scram, Bugs!

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 Patriot Returns the Dough to the USO

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Al Fagaly
Inker(s): Al Fagaly ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Patriot
Character(s): The Patriot
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Pages: 6
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Dead-End Dynamite

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Syd Shores ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Vision
Character(s): Joe Marone (Villain; Intro); Toughie (Villain; Intro); other crooks
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Pages: 7
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The Case of the Invisible Clue

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): Deadline Dawson; Lana Love (Intro)
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Pages: 7
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The Case of Marvello the Mystic

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Roy Garn ?
Penciller(s): Gustav Schrotter ?
Inker(s): Gustav Schrotter ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Angel
Character(s): Marvello (Villain; Intro)
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Pages: 10

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