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Publisher: Marvel

Title: Marvel Mystery Comics
Issue: 13
Page Count: 68
Publish Date: November 1940
Volume: 1
Contributors: Editor: Joe Simon

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Marvel Mystery Comics 13
Owner: changerchanger

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Story Title: [ no title ] - cover
Features:The Human Torch
Pages:1
Pencils:Alex Schomburg
Inks:Alex Schomburg
Genre:superhero
Characters:The Human Torch [Jim Hammond]; The Angel [Tom Halloway] (inset); the Sub-Mariner [Prince Namor] (inset); the Vision [Aarkus] (inset)


Story Title: Cut-Throat Justice - text story
Pages:2
Pencils:Harry Ramsey [as H. R.] (signed)
Inks:Harry Ramsey [as H. R.] (signed)
Letters:typeset
Genre:adventure
Characters:Captain McGraw; Warden Dawes; Danny the Dud (villain, death); Sam the Barber (villain)
Synopsis:As Danny the Dud is being transferred to "the big house", he thinks of his ex-partner whom he double-crossed and sent up the river. Now, as he sits in the barber's chair in prison, ready to get his first shave, the last thing he sees is that ex-partner with a razor in his hand!


Story Title: Terror in the Subway - comic story
Features:The Human Torch
Pages:12
Pencils:Carl Burgos (signed)
Inks:Carl Burgos (signed)
Letters:Carl Burgos ?
Genre:superhero
Characters:The Human Torch [Jim Hammond]; un-named mayor; Captain Rawlins (policeman); Reiss (villain, introduction); Mr. Morton (villain, introduction, subway builder)
Synopsis:A subway builder loses both of his sons to cave-ins while constructing the tunnels, causing him to lose his mind and seek revenge, wanting to wreck trains so they wouldn't disturb his sons' graves within the tunnels' walls. But he is confined by those whom he hires to help him accomplish the task and the Torch must stop them.


Story Title: Smashing the Island Invasion - comic story
Features:The Sub-Mariner
Pages:10
Pencils:Bill Everett (signed)
Inks:Bill Everett (signed)
Letters:Bill Everett
Genre:superhero
Characters:The Sub-Mariner [Prince Namor]; Dorma; Princess Fen; Toro (an Atlantean tailor, introduction); The Nazis (villains, some die)
Synopsis:Namor and Dorma, outfitted in new suits designed to ward off poison gasses, and on their way to Europe to aide in the war efforts, stop off at an island for rest. But they find themselves not only under arrest but under attack from the Nazis as well.


Story Title: Enter: The Vision - comic story
Features:The Vision
Pages:8
Pencils:Jack Kirby
Inks:Jack Kirby; Joe Simon ?
Letters:Jack Kirby
Genre:superhero
Characters:The Vision [Aarkus] (introduction, origin) (see also issue #23); Dr. Enoch Mason (introduction); Shiela Mason (his daughter, introduction); Mose (Mason's butler); Markham (scientist); "Brains Borelli" (villain); Queenie (villain); Tony (villain, introduction); Bomber (villain, introduction)
Synopsis:A professor, believing that ghosts and spirits actually inhabit worlds and universes that co-exist with our universe, is set upon by "Brains" Borelli's men during an experiment to prove his theory. The result is a being called Aarkus, Destoyer of Evil, drawn to the laboratory, who helps save the professor and his daughter from harm.


Story Title: Case of the Counterfeit Paintings - comic story
Features:Terry Vance
Pages:7
Pencils:Bob Oksner (signed)
Inks:Bob Oksner (signed)
Genre:detective-mystery
Characters:Terry Vance; Dr. Watson (a monkey); Deadline Dawson (newspaperman); un-named boss (villain); Slim (villain)
Synopsis:Terry's discovery of fresh paint on a supposedly vintage oil painting sparks his interest. The investigation nearly costs him his life.


Story Title: Mystery of the Moon Robots - comic story
Features:Electro, the Marvel of the Age
Pages:8
Pencils:Steve Dahlman (signed)
Inks:Steve Dahlman (signed)
Genre:adventure
Characters:Electro; Professor Philo Zog; Dr. Simon Crane (introduction); Betty Crane (his daughter, introduction); Gnorr, Emperor of the Moon (villain, introduction, death)
Synopsis:The professor and the Cranes leave Earth for the Moon, but when they send out Electro to investigate the environment, he is attacked and captured by moon robots. Zog and the Cranes land and initiate their own attack on the moon people and save the day.


Story Title: The Murder of Happy Norton - comic story
Features:The Angel
Pages:9
Pencils:Paul Gustavson
Inks:Paul Gustavson
Letters:Paul Gustavson
Genre:superhero
Characters:The Angel [Tom Halloway]; Happy Nolan (introduction, death); The Savoy Gang [Limpy Savoy (death); Rocco; Bumpy; Punchy; Harry] (villain. introduction for all)
Synopsis:The death of a former member of the Savoy mob who had chosen to go straight angers the Angel, and he swears to hunt down the men responsible for this death.


Story Title: In the New York Jungle - comic story
Features:Adventures of Ka-Zar the Great
Pages:10
Pencils:Ben Thompson
Inks:Ben Thompson
Genre:jungle
Characters:Ka-Zar [David Rand]; Zar (a lion); Ruth Wilson; Dr. Wilson
Synopsis:Now in America, Ka-Zar is taken in by the police. He escapes through the efforts of the Wilsons and is put into their custody. But Ka-Zar feels he must free Zar as well from behind bars in the zoo, and so he makes his way there to free him.


Story Title: Hey Fellas! Look at This! - promo (ad from the publisher)
Pages:1
Pencils:Alex Schomburg
Inks:Alex Schomburg
Characters:Human Torch; Toro; Sub-Mariner


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