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Publisher: Marvel

Title: Marvel Mystery Comics
Issue: 28
Page Count: 68
Publish Date: February 1942
Volume: 1
Contributors: Editor: Joe Simon

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Marvel Mystery Comics #28
Owner: gino2paulus2

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Story Title: [ no title ] - cover
Features:The Human Torch
Pages:1
Genre:superhero
Characters:The Human Torch [Jim Hammond]


Story Title: Still on Top! - promo (ad from the publisher)
Features:Captain America Comics
Pages:1
Genre:superhero
Characters:Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bucky [Bucky Barnes]
Synopsis:Illustrated house ad, with cover, promoting Captain America Comics #13 (February, 1942).


Story Title: The Poison Pill Suicides - comic story
Features:The Human Torch and Toro the Flaming Kid
Pages:15
Genre:superhero
Characters:The Human Torch [Jim Hammond]; Toro [Thomas Raymond]; Mr. Martin (death); unnamed Police Commissioner; Izan (villain, introduction); five unnamed henchmen of Izan (villains, all die)
Synopsis:Torch and Toro are invited to lead the Coney Island Mardi Gras pageant, but a henchman of a gunrunner named Izan succeeds in interrupting the event with a bomb before committing suicide with a poison pill rather than facing his boss's judgment to be drowned for failure. Izan captures Torch and Toro with gas and places them into glass coffin tubes which he plans to dump into the sea. Discovering a leak in the tube, the Torch flames on and superheats the glass so that it shatters when it hits the water. He frees Toro and they capture Izan.


Story Title: The Flying Dutchman - comic story
Features:The Sub-Mariner
Pages:12
Genre:superhero
Characters:The Sub-Mariner [Prince Namor]; Mr. Larson (sailor); Rogers (naval diver); Baby Dean McCarthy (introduction, Betty Dean's sister and Slug's wife); The Falcon (villain, introduction, death); Chuck "Slug" McCarthy (villain, introduction, reforms); Oliver (villain)
Synopsis:Intrigued by four ship sinkings by a mysterious 18th-century ghost ship, Namor figures that the tremendous loss of gold shipments carried aboard those ships must be the work of a 20th-century pirate who has bolted the ghost ship to a submarine. Walking into a trap, Namor is rescued by the sister of Policewoman Betty Dean, who, along with her husband, are being coerced into helping the Falcon.


Story Title: The Surprise Success of the Century! - promo (ad from the publisher)
Features:Young Allies Comics
Pages:1
Genre:superhero
Characters:The Young Allies [Bucky Barnes; Toro; Tubby Tinkle; "Knuckles" Percy Bartwell; Washington Vanderbilt Jefferson; Whitewash Jones]; the Nazis
Synopsis:Illustrated promotional ad, with cover, to The Young Allies Comics #2 (Winter, 1941), with on sale date listed as November 25, 1941.


Story Title: The Soul Stealer - comic story
Features:The Vision
Pages:7
Genre:superhero
Characters:The Vision [Aarkus]; Guardian of the Spirit World (introduction); Dr. Zadig; Dr. Parker; Dr. Schlissel; unnamed police chief; Dr. Igor Korbeau (villain, introduction, death)
Synopsis:The Vision comes to Earth to battle the "Mad Man of Science", Dr. Korbeau, who has discovered the secret of man's soul and how to remove it. Korbeau removes the souls of seven of his scientific competitors, but the Vision takes the scientists to the spirit world to reclaim their souls before a showdown with the evil doctor.


Story Title: The Sea of Grassy Death - text story
Pages:1.67
Letters:typeset
Genre:adventure
Characters:Jack; Slim; the Germans (villains)
Synopsis:Two sailors run into a storm and find themselves marooned in the Sargasso Sea, facing yet a greater terror that would prove dangerous to Allied shipping.
Reprinted:in Primal Spillane: Early Stories 1941-1942 (Gryphon Books, 2004 series)


Story Title: Statement of Ownership - statement of ownership
Pages:0.33


Story Title: The Green-Faced Man - comic story
Pages:6
Genre:superhero
Characters:The Patriot [Jeffrey Mace]; Casey (Daily Bugle reporter); Mary Morgan (Daily Bugle reporter); Green Face [Reibel] (villain, introduction); Fritz (villain)
Synopsis:The celebrated trial of the Green-Faced Man is interrupted when the prisoner's gang frees him with an attack of gas. However, the Patriot tracks him down to dispense well-earned justice.


Story Title: The Case of the Deadly Letters - comic story
Features:Terry Vance the School Boy Sleuth
Pages:7
Genre:detective-mystery
Characters:Terry Vance; Drt. Watson (a monkey); Deadline Dawson; Detective Jenks; Aubrey De Woode (Hollywood director; death); unnamed butler of Aubrey de Woode; Gordon De Wolfe (villain, introduction, nephew of Aubrey de Woode)
Synopsis:Terry and Deadline suspect that Hollywood director Aubrey de Woode did not commit suicide, but was murdered, and they suspect the dead man's nephew, even though the police have ruled the young man out as a suspect.


Story Title: Strange Adventures in the Land of Nowhere - comic story
Features:Jimmy Jupiter
Pages:6
Inks:Ed Robbins ? [as E. Robbins] (signed)
Genre:children; fantasy
Characters:Jimmy Jupiter (introduction); inhabitants of the Land of Nowhere [Elmer Tree; unnamed woman; unnamed talking trees] (introduction for all); The Wump-Jump (villain, introduction, a dragon)
Synopsis:Jimmy is taken up in an airplane but forgets to fasten his safety belt, and falls out of the plane, landing on a soft cloud. He discovers he is in the Land of Nowhere and the only way back to Earth is to locate the Mountain of Wunt.


Story Title: The Horror of the Haunted Cathedral - comic story
Features:The Angel
Pages:8
Genre:superhero
Characters:The Angel [Thomas Halloway]; the Russians; zombie Monk; General Henchel (villain, introduction, dies twice); his army of zombies (villains, introduction for all, all die twice); the Nazis (villains)
Synopsis:General Henchel faces the prospect of suicide because of his blunder along the German-Russian Front, but instead he makes a hasty departure by submarine to America. Arriving in the swamps of Louisiana, he decides to hide out in a mysterious cathedral, supposedly haunted, and is killed when he plays an organ, but is brought back as a zombie (like other former inhabitants of the edifice), leading his Army of the Dead out to kill Americans. The Angel discovers a zombie Monk at the cathedral and learns from him how to deal with the dreadful Army.


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