Volume: 1
Price: 0.10 USD
Pages: 68
On-sale Date: 1942-03-17
Editing: Funnies, Inc. (editor); Lloyd Jacquet (editor)
Cover Thumbnail for Marvel Mystery Comics (Marvel, 1939 series) #31 Edit Cover
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[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents)

Human Torch / cover / 1 page

Script:
?
Pencils:
Al Gabriele (signed)
Inks:
Al Gabriele (signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:superhero
Characters:
Reprints (1)

Indexer Notes

Artist signature appears near the bottom of the cover, partially obscured by the text box.

Issue Data

  • Indicia / Colophon Publisher: Timely Comics Inc.
  • Indicia Frequency: monthly
  • Printer: ?

Indexer 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. 2.

[Write a Letter to Marvel Comics]
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promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page

Scuttle the Japs
(Table of Contents: 2)

Human Torch / comic story / 12 pages

Script:
Carl Burgos (credited)
Pencils:
Carl Burgos (credited) (signed as CARL BURGOS)
Inks:
Carl Burgos ? (credited)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:superhero
Characters:
Admiral Nodope (villain, introduction, death); Fooey (villain, introduction); Japanese (villains, many deaths)
Synopsis:
After the attack on Pearl Harbor the Japanese send a carrier with planes to bomb San Francisco. Torch and Toro destroy all the planes but one and trail it back to the carrier. Toro wants to sink the carrier but Torch has them stowaway aboard Admiral Nodope's ship in order to free the imprisoned marines. Torch and Toro scuttle the carrier and Nodope's superior demands he stop the escaping marines. Torch melts the American steel over the Japanese and burns the snipers alive in their perches and the marines board a boat for home. As they go, Torch leaves a flaming 'V' in the sky above Japan.

The Case of the Jilted Japs or "They Had a Date at San Diego!"
(Table of Contents: 3)

Namor the Sub-Mariner / comic story / 12 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Bill Everett (signed)
Inks:
Bill Everett (signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
  • Genre:superhero
Characters:
The Japanese (villains)

Indexer Notes

Takes place December 11-14, 1941.

The Plague of the Jelly Men
(Table of Contents: 4)

The Vision / comic story / 7 pages

Script:
?
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:superhero
Characters:
The "Jelly Men" (villain, introduction, death, a mass of living protoplasm); the Japanese (villains, many deaths)

Indexer Notes

Formerly credited to Stan Lee. Story is not signed. Art formerly credited to Vince Alascia and David Walters. Vince Alascia is not listed in Jerry Bails' Who's Who as ever working on the Vision and David Walters doesn't exist. Ramona Patenaude is credited with drawing the Vision during this time period by Bails. Compare her signed covers on Fox's Blue Beetle #10 and Mystery Men #29

Killer's Return
(Table of Contents: 5)

text story / 2 pages

Script:
Letters:
typeset
Reprints (2)

Indexer Notes

Reprint note from Arthur Lortie, August 2008.

The Insects of Sudden Death!
(Table of Contents: 6)

The Patriot / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
?
Pencils:
Al Fagaly (signed as Al Fagaly)
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:superhero
Characters:
Otto (villain, introduction, death); the Nazis (villains); Jack Casey

[Don't Delay Another Second!]
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Captain America / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page

The Mystery of the Murdered Ghost
(Table of Contents: 8)

Terry Vance, the School Boy Sleuth / comic story / 7 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:detective-mystery
Characters:
The Ghost Rider (introduction, death); Roney (villain, introduction, death)

In The Land of the Fun People
(Table of Contents: 9)

Jimmy Jupiter / comic story / 7 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Eddie Robbins (signed as Robin)
Inks:
Eddie Robbins (signed as Robin)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:children; fantasy-supernatural; superhero
Characters:
The Candy Men (introduction); The Gloomy Gusses (villain)

Cargo of Death
(Table of Contents: 10)

The Angel / comic story / 10 pages

Script:
?
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:superhero
Characters:
Gondor (villain, introduction)

Indexer Notes

Art previously credited to Al Fagaly, who drew the Patriot story in this issue and clearly is not the same person who drew this. Compare the art to the signed stories by Schrotter in issues 40 and 42-45. atlastales.com lists unknown art.

[USA Comics]
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promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page

[no title indexed]
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Daisy Air Rifles / Daisy B-B Guns / advertisement / 1 page

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Table of Contents ToC
    Table of Contents
  1. ["Blazing fury met the murderous Japs as the Human Torch zoomed into the fray!"]
    Human Torch
  2. [Write a Letter to Marvel Comics]
  3. Scuttle the Japs
    Human Torch
  4. The Case of the Jilted Japs or "They Had a Date at San Diego!"
    Namor the Sub-Mariner
  5. The Plague of the Jelly Men
    The Vision
  6. Killer's Return
  7. The Insects of Sudden Death!
    The Patriot
  8. [Don't Delay Another Second!]
    Captain America
  9. The Mystery of the Murdered Ghost
    Terry Vance, the School Boy Sleuth
  10. In The Land of the Fun People
    Jimmy Jupiter
  11. Cargo of Death
    The Angel
  12. [USA Comics]
  13. [no title indexed]
    Daisy Air Rifles / Daisy B-B Guns
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