XOW Logo
  • Location
    • Home
    • Issue Detail, List Content Items
in for
   
by
Facebook Logo
Report a Bug Ask for Support Review Site Apply to be an Editor
Issue: All-Winners Comics #5
Publication Date: January 1942
Previous Base Issue Previous Issue Variant Next Issue Variant Next Base Issue
 
Disclose Detail
Issues: #5 of 20 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Timely Comics [small shield]View Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: U.S.A. Comic Corp.
On Sale Date: 06/17/1942
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 16 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: All-Winners Comics is published quarterly by U.S.A. Comic Corp. at Meriden, Conn. Entered as second class matter, April 24, 1941, at the post office at Meriden, Conn. under Act of March 3, 1879. Single copies 10c; yearly subscription $.40. Entire contents copyrighted 1942 by U.S. A. Comic Magazine Corp., 330 W. 42nd St., New York, N. Y. No similarity between any of the names, characters, persons and/or institutions appearing in this magazine with those of any living or dead person or institution is intended, and that any such similarity which may exist is purely coincidental.

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.
  Does this data need corrections? Become an editor.
Disclose Format
Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Golden Age US
Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior
Binding: Saddle-Stitched
Publishing Format:  
Format Notes:  
Disclose Reprinted In19
Disclose Reprinted From0
There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
Disclose Images1
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
Assets0
 
spacer
Disclose Content Items (16 total)
Disclose Issue Images
[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Human Torch; Captain America; Sub-Mariner
Character(s): Captain America; Bucky; Human Torch; Toro; Sub-Mariner
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners Comics #2 [Regular Edition] published December 2006
as All-Winners Comics #5 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Unknown inks per atlas tales. Previous indexer credited Bob Powell.
Disclose
All Winners

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Captain America; Bucky; Human Torch; Toro; Whizzer; Destroyer; Sub-Mariner (illustrations)
Synopsis: Table of Contents page, illustrated with head-views of features and brief story synopses.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners Comics #2 [Regular Edition] published December 2006
as All Winners [Table of Contents on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Found on the inside front cover. Oddity: on this page, the Destroyer is shown but the TOC doesn't list his story, and instead asks "Have you read 'Krazy Komics'"?
Disclose
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Human Torch [Jim Hammond]; Toro [Thomas Raymond]; Captain Von Spitz (villain; introduction)
First Line: The murdering Nazi gangsters hid a secret headquarters from everyone!
Synopsis: Torch and Toro discover that the Nazis are operating out of a steamship anchored at a Coney Island pier. The Nazis intend to deliver a bomb (along with needed tanks of oxygen) to a hospital in order to kill thousands.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners Comics #2 [Regular Edition] published December 2006
as Invading the Nazi's Secret Plan [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
Disclose
Don't Delay Another Second!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Sentinels of Liberty
Character(s): Captain America
Synopsis: Illustrated ad encouraging readers to join Cap's Sentinels of Liberty.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners Comics #2 [Regular Edition] published December 2006
as Don't Delay Another Second! [Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose
[untitled]

Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): A Bit of Hocus Pocus
Character(s): Keith Clark
Synopsis: Famous international magician, Keith Clark, explains (in text and illos) how to do tricks used by magicians, such as the vanishing coin box, Indian basket mystery, the magnetic coin and others.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners Comics #2 [Regular Edition] published December 2006
as [untitled] [Activity on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose
The Vampire Strikes!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bucky [Bucky Barnes]; Sgt. Duffy; The Vampire [Doctor Togu] (villain; introduction; Death)
Synopsis: Cap and Bucky must face the threat created by the world's greatest master of occult medicine, Dr. Togu, who has forsaken the dropping of disease bombs on the Chinese people to inflict yet a new terror upon America: a vampire!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners Comics #2 [Regular Edition] published December 2006
as The Vampire Strikes! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
Disclose
[untitled]

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Patent Pending
First Line: Dish saver
Synopsis: Illustrated one-panel gags portraying proposed inventions that people need to have.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners Comics #2 [Regular Edition] published December 2006
as [untitled] [Cartoon on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose
Speed on the Rampage

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Whizzer; Warden Balew (villain)
Synopsis: Whizzer must tackle a crooked prison warden who has formed "A League of Petty Crimes" which allows prisoners to "escape" from prison, commit crimes, then return with the loot, having an alibi no one can prove untrue.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners Comics #2 [Regular Edition] published December 2006
as Speed on the Rampage! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose
Smash Return!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): various
Inker(s): various
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Human Torch; Toro; the Sub-Mariner
Synopsis: Illustrated promotional ad reminding readers that the new issues of Human Torch Comics [#8] and Sub-Mariner [#6] will soon be on sale.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners Comics #2 [Regular Edition] published December 2006
as Smash Return! [Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose
The Man in the Moon

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Bruce Henderson
Synopsis: On December 31, 1941.....New Year's Eve, Bruce Henderson was in the jungles of Brazil and comes upon a rocket ship, and decides to use it to fly to the Moon. When he returns, no one believes him, until........they discovered, as Henderson told them they would, the large, mile-long letters "U S A" on the Moon's surface that he had made while he was there, and which they could now see using a new improved telescope!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagComix: A History of Comic Books in America #[nn] published January 1971
as The Man in the Moon [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagComix: A History of Comic Books in America #[nn] published January 1971
as The Man in the Moon [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners Comics #2 [Regular Edition] published December 2006
as The Man in the Moon [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes: in Primal Spillane: Early Stories 1941-1942 (Gryphon Books, 2004 series)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose
[untitled]

Public Service Announcement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (illustration)
Inker(s): ? (illustration)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?; typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, opinion
First Line: A special message to the boys and girls of America from Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Secretary of the Treasury
Synopsis: The editors of this magazine print a letter from the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, encouraging the boys and girls of America to buy their Savings Stamps to help the U.S. win the war effort.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners Comics #2 [Regular Edition] published December 2006
as [untitled] [Public Service Announcement on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose
The Hermit's Island of Glittering Gold!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Sub-Mariner
Character(s): The Sub-Mariner [Prince Namor]; un-named hermit; Marshal Doering (villain; introduction); the Nazis (villain)
Synopsis: After up-ending a boatload of Nazis into the drink, Namor lands on an isle, only to discover it is covered with gold. However, he must not only battle the Nazis, who become shipwrecked there, but the strange hermit who resides there, believing all these visitors are there to steal the gold.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners Comics #2 [Regular Edition] published December 2006
as The Hermit's Island of Glittering Gold! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
Disclose
[untitled]

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Patent Pending
First Line: We get 50 miles on a pair of rubber heels
Synopsis: In a series of single panel cartoons, the writer/artist illustrates humourous inventions that should be patented to make people's life a bit easier.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners Comics #2 [Regular Edition] published December 2006
as [untitled] [Cartoon on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose
The Demon's Deadly Secret!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Destroyer
Character(s): Destroyer [Keen Marlow]; Paul Voltz [Death]; Captain Achhimmell (villain; introduction); Inga Von Leche (villain; introduction)
Synopsis: In order to save the lives of several Americans the Nazis are planning to execute, the Destroyer assumes the alias of writer Louis Kramer to infiltrate the enemy camp and achieve his aims.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners Comics #2 [Regular Edition] published December 2006
as The Demon's Deadly Secret! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
Disclose
[untitled]

Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): A Bit of Hocus Pocus
First Line: Dead or alive???
Synopsis: The famous international magician, Keith Clark, through text and illustration, explains how magic tricks, such as the spook rapping trick, the reading of burnt messages and others are actually done.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners Comics #2 [Regular Edition] published December 2006
as [untitled] [Activity on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose
Krazy Komics

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Ziggy Pig; Toughy Tomcat; Snappy Turtle; Posty Pelican; Dingaling
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners Comics #2 [Regular Edition] published December 2006
as Krazy Komics [Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Appears on the back cover.

Site designed and hosted by XOWTech, Inc..
Any questions or problems with this site should be directed to REMOVE-webmaestro-THESE@xowcomics.com.

XOW, XOWComics.com, XOWTech and XOWTech.com are registered trademarks of XOWTech, Inc.
© XOWTech, Inc., 2010 - 2025. All rights reserved.

Some data courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under a Creative Commons Attribution license.