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Issue: Marvel Mystery Comics #50
Publication Date: December 1943
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Issues: #50 of 91 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Timely Comics, Inc.
On Sale Date: 10/28/1943
Volume: 1
Pages: 60
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 8 (7 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, 1943, New Series, Vol. 38, 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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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Alex Schomburg [as Schomburg] (signed)
Inker(s): Alex Schomburg [as Schomburg] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Human Torch
Character(s): Human Torch [Jim Hammond]; Toro
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Pages: 1
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Battling the Nazi Vultures

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Allen Bellman ?
Inker(s): Harry Sahle ?; George Klein ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Human Torch
Character(s): Gen. Von Bock (villain, introduction); Stephanie (villain, introduction); Capt. Klutz (villain, introduction); Weaselface (villain, introduction)
Synopsis: Torch and Toro are in Russia battling Nazi agents when they are overpowered by men wearing asbestos suits and injected with a drug that makes them pass out. Since the Germans didn’t bother to secure them, once they regain consciousness, they slide out from under the descending doom and capture Stephanie. Torch and Toro catch up with Klutz and Weasel in a bomber planning to attack Allied forces. They sabotage the controls so that it bombs a Nazi munitions factory and then crashes into it, killing the two agents.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
Disclose Notes: story takes place in Russia
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Eerie Howl of the Wolf Pack

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Carl Pfeufer
Inker(s): Carl Pfeufer ?; Allen Simon ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Sub-Mariner
Character(s): Baron Togi (villain, introduction, death)
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Pages: 12
Disclose Notes: Pfeufer pencils and possible inks per Nick Caputo, July 2018. Previous indexer credited Allen Simon on pencils.
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Deadline Dawson's Pay-Off

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Bob Oksner ?
Inker(s): Bob Oksner ?; Vince Alascia ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Terry Vance
Character(s): Deadline Dawson (guest-star); the Nazis (villains)
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Pages: 7
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The First Time

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 2
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Scourge of the Nazis: Part 2

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Otto Binder
Penciller(s): Charles Nicholas ?
Inker(s): Charles Nicholas ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Miss America
Character(s): Nazi saboteurs (villains)
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: continued from last issue
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Introducing Miss Patriot

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Patriot
Character(s): Miss Patriot [Mary Morgan] (only appears as such on splash page, not in story, gains super-vision and super-hearing, introduction); Dr. Groitzig (villain, introduction); Scharrolla (villain, introduction)
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Unknown art per atlastales.com and Nick Caputo. Previous indexer credited Syd Shores.
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The Glowing Death

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Gustav Schrotter ?
Inker(s): Gustav Schrotter ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Angel
Character(s): Slate (villain, introduction); Capt. Cord (introduction)
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Pages: 8

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