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Issue: Marvel Mystery Comics #10
Publication Date: August 1940
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Issues: #10 of 91 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Timely Publications
On Sale Date: 06/15/1940
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 11 (9 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Joe Simon ?
Disclose Notes: Joe Simon began editing for Timely on a freelance basis with Red Raven Comics #1, which came out the same month as this issue. It is not clear if he immediately started editing Marvel Mystery Comics as well or not, although he was definitely the editor by issue #12 as discussed in that index.

The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1940, New Series, Vol. 35, No. 3.
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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)
Format Notes:  
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Alex Schomburg
Inker(s): Alex Schomburg
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Sub-Mariner
Character(s): The Sub-Mariner [Prince Namor]; Ka-Zar (inset); The Angel [Tom Halloway] (inset); Electro (inset); Human Torch [Jim Hammond] (inset); Terry Vance and Dr. Watson (in same inset); the Nazis
First Line: It was a terrible battle -- the Sub-Mariner against the vicious Nazi raider!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe Invaders #21 [30ยข Cover Price] published October 1977
as The Battle of Berlin! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel 65th Anniversary Special #1 published September 2004
as [untitled] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics #3 [Regular Edition] published August 2008
as Marvel Mystery Comics #10 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Result of the Most Famous Battle in Comic Magazines

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bill Everett; Carl Burgos; John Compton
Penciller(s): Bill Everett; Carl Burgos
Inker(s): Bill Everett; Carl Burgos
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Human Torch; the Sub-Mariner
Character(s): The Human Torch [Jim Hammond]; Sub-Mariner [Prince Namor]; Betty Dean
Synopsis: Trapped in a translite tube, only the intervention of Betty Dean saves the Torch and ends the battle between him and Namor.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagFantasy Masterpieces #8 published April 1967
as The Human Torch versus the Sub-Mariner [Story on Interior Page(s)]minus first panel
In Content Item: FlagMarvel 65th Anniversary Special #1 published September 2004
as The Human Torch and the Sub-Mariner! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics #3 [Regular Edition] published August 2008
as The Result of the Most Famous Battle in Comic Magazines [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Conclusion of the Human Torch/Sub-Mariner battle.
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The Gasoline Profiteering Racket

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Carl Burgos (signed)
Penciller(s): Carl Burgos (signed)
Inker(s): Carl Burgos (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Human Torch
Character(s): The Human Torch [Jim Hammond]; Tom; Mr. Atwell (gas station owner); un-named Police Captain; Palmer (villain, introduction); Limpy (villain, introduction); Riley (villain, introduction)
Synopsis: Torch must battle a gas syndicate who tries to raise the price of gasoline and bombs any gas station refusing to go along.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics #3 [Regular Edition] published August 2008
as The Gasoline Profiteering Racket [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 11
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Hostilities Renewed

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bill Everett (signed)
Penciller(s): Bill Everett (signed)
Inker(s): Bill Everett (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Bill Everett ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Sub-Mariner
Character(s): The Sub-Mariner [Prince Namor]; Cap'n Bob (skipper of "The Colleen"); Luther Robinson (introduction); Lynne Harris (introduction); Tha-Korr; Dorma; Stevens (USN sailor)
Synopsis: Because of Namor's seeming 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.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe Invaders #21 [30ยข Cover Price] published October 1977
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics #3 [Regular Edition] published August 2008
as Hostilities Renewed [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
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The Ghouls of the Blue Ridge Mountains

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Paul Gustavson ?; Ray Gill ?
Penciller(s): Paul Gustavson (signed)
Inker(s): Paul Gustavson (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Paul Gustavson
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Angel
Character(s): The Angel [Tom Halloway]; unnamed girl; a band of ghouls (villains, introduction for all, all die); The Devils of the Mist (villains, introduction for all)
Synopsis: 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 topside to sacrifice to the volcano.
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In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics #3 [Regular Edition] published August 2008
as The Ghouls of the Blue Ridge Mountains [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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Master of the Living Dead

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Steve Dahlman ?
Penciller(s): Steve Dahlman (signed)
Inker(s): Steve Dahlman (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Electro, the Marvel of the Age
Character(s): Electro; Professor Philo Zog; Dr. Bruno Varoz (villain, introduction, death); Varoz's army of living corpses (villains, introduction for all, all die); a two-headed monster (villain, introduction, death)
Synopsis: 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.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics #3 [Regular Edition] published August 2008
as Master of the Living Dead [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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Tiger Trail

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Hedwig C. Langer [as Beach Allen] (signed)
Penciller(s): Ed Robins [as E. R.] (signed)
Inker(s): Ed Robins [as E. R.] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Tiger Travis; Jimmy Travis (death); Miles Gudgeon (villain)
Synopsis: Miles Gudgeon is on the run after murdering a young boy over a handful of petals.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics #3 [Regular Edition] published August 2008
as Tiger Trail [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: "Beach Allen" is probably a misprint for "Beech Allen", who had written various credits for Robert Erisman at Goodman' pulp division during the late 1930s. "Beach Allen" was the pen name of Hedwig C. Langer.
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Treachery in Two Forks

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Al Anders ?
Penciller(s): Al Anders
Inker(s): Al Anders
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Feature(s): The Masked Raider
Character(s): The Masked Raider [Jim Gardley]; Lightning (the Raider's horse); Jonathan Gregg (tax collector, death); Sally; un-named Sheriff; un-named crook (villain)
Synopsis: 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.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics #3 [Regular Edition] published August 2008
as Treachery in Two Forks [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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The Murder of a Man without a Will

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, the School Boy Sleuth
Character(s): Terry Vance (introduction); Dr. Watson (introduction, a monkey); Dr. Caldwell (death); un-named assistant of Dr. Caldwell; un-named fiancee of Caldwell's assistant; Gregory (villain, introduction, Caldwell's stepson)
Synopsis: While Terry Vance, the Boy of a Hundred Hobbies" works on an experiment, he hears a police call of someone murdered in a penthouse. Investigating, he discovers the man has been murdered by "remote control."
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics #3 [Regular Edition] published August 2008
as The Murder of a Man without a Will [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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A Visit from Scotland Yard

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Ben Thompson ?
Penciller(s): Ben Thompson (signed)
Inker(s): Ben Thompson (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Feature(s): Adventures of Ka-Zar the Great
Character(s): Ka-Zar [David Rand]; Zar (a lion); Nono (a monkey); un-named airplane pilot; un-named detectives; "London" Jack (villain, introduction)
Synopsis: A wanted criminal captures two Scotland Yard detectives and then leaves them for dead while he attempts to fly out of the jungle to freedom.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics #3 [Regular Edition] published August 2008
as A Visit from Scotland Yard [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
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[untitled]

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Gene Marrin ?
Penciller(s): Gene Marrin (signed)
Inker(s): Gene Marrin (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Gene Marrin?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Our Hall of Shame
Character(s): Dan Druff; "Jolly Joe" Josh; Clem Chowder; Professor O. U. Chiseler; Oscar Tittle
First Line: Clem Chowder, the all-American screwball...
Synopsis: Features a series of humorous inventors and the problems their inventions have caused.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics #3 [Regular Edition] published August 2008
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1

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