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Issue: The Human Torch #28

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Publication Date: January 1947

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Issues: #28 of 38 Issues

Title:

Variant: unnamed

Rating: [no rating]

Publisher: Flag

Marvel

Brand: none

Indicia Publisher: Cornell Publishing Corp.

On Sale Date: 09/02/1947

Volume: 1

Pages: 36

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.10 USD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 5 (4 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s): Stan Lee

Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Vol. 1, Part 2, Nos. 1&2, Periodicals, 1946-1947.

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Golden Age US (#2-35); then standard Silver Age US (#36-38)

Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior

Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: was ongoing

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Content Items (5 total)

The Twins Who Weren't!

Illustration on Cover, Front

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Human Torch; Toro

First Line: Torch! One of them murdered him!

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Pages: 1

The Twins Who Weren't

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Human Torch; Toro; Joyce Clayton; Elaine Clayton; Ted; John; Lt. Walsh

First Line: The most perplexing case of their daring career...

Synopsis: Identical twins are the focus of this murder mystery. One of them is committed to an asylum after a broken off love affair convinces her that she is in love with Lancelot from Arthurian legend. The murderer plots to have her sprung from the asylum and then blamed for the killings so that he gets the girls' money.

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Pages: 12

Job Number: R-512

Notes: Possible Burgos pencils per Nick Caputo. Previously indexer credited Jimmy Thompson but after an exhaustive study of Thompson's work for Timely we can definitely say this is not Thompson.

Cover story.

Dead End

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Genres: superhero

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Pages: 6

Job Number: 2042

The Hanging Witness

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Letterer(s): typeset

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Pages: 2

Job Number: F-24

Case of the Bends!

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Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Sub-Mariner [Namor]; Namora; Dr. D. Mencha (villain, introduction); Mencha’s men [“Muggsie” Marvin; Michael; Simon (aid)]

Synopsis: While strolling the waterfront, Namor witnesses a girl drop dead. He diagnoses the unlikely cause as the bends and decides to investigate a nearby river dredge that he finds suspicious. There, he discovers that Dr. D. Mencha is experimenting on young girls, inflicting them with decompression sickness. Namor takes a quick trip to Betty Dean’s apartment to enlist the aid of Namora, whom he uses as bait to catch the demented scientist in the act. The plan works and with the evidence they need, the cousins round up the professor and his men for the harbor police.

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Pages: 12

Job Number: R-526

Notes: Namor remarks that he hasn’t seen “Muggsie” Marvin since 1939.