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Publisher: Marvel

Title: Marvel Mystery Comics
Issue: 30
Page Count: 68
Publish Date: April 1942
Volume: 1

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Marvel Mystery Comics #30
Owner: walclark

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Story Title: [ no title ] - cover
Pages:1
Letters:typeset
Genre:superhero
Characters:Human Torch; Toro


Story Title: March of the Metal Mobsters - comic story
Features:Human Torch and Toro
Pages:15
Genre:superhero
Characters:Human Torch; Toro; [The Metal Mobsters [Stephen Cole; others]] (villains, introduction); Mary Orchid (introduction); Leslie Garden (introduction)
Synopsis:A woman is worried when her fiance disappears so she asks Torch and Toro for help. She tells him that he has developed a plastic metal that may have made him a target for abductors. Torch and Toro encounter men clad in suits made of the stuff and have difficulty subduing them. The woman's fiance turns out to be in one of the suits, but Torch suspects he has been coerced into his actions when he sees welts upon his back. The true villain reveals himself and takes the woman as a hostage to escape. Toro sneaks around behind him and captures him.


Story Title: Reprisal Revenge - comic story
Features:Sub-Mariner
Pages:12
Genre:superhero
Characters:Sub-Mariner [Namor]; Princess Fen; Nazis (villains)
Synopsis:Sub-Mariner almost liberates France.


Story Title: The Crank - comic story
Pages:7
Genre:superhero
Characters:Vision; The Crank [Powers] (introduction, villain, death); Powers' secretary (introduction, death)
Synopsis:Vision gets involved when The Crank threatens to destroy Finance City.


Story Title: Lumps of Death - text story
Pages:2
Letters:typeset
Characters:Jack Billing’s; George
Synopsis:Jack Billing tries to foil a plot to place explosive coal into train engines.
Reprinted:in Primal Spillane: Early Stories 1941-1942 (Gryphon Books, 2004 series)


Story Title: The Mystery of the Flying Corpses - comic story
Pages:6
Genre:superhero
Characters:Patriot [Jeff Mace]; Dr. Strasser (villain, introduction, death); Mary; Casey
Synopsis:The Patriot tries to solve the riddle of people dying, expanding and floating away after getting blood transfusions.


Story Title: The Mystery of the Pharaoh's Eye - comic story
Features:Terry Vance
Pages:7
Pencils:? (see notes)
Inks:? (see notes)
Genre:detective-mystery
Characters:Terry Vance; Deadline Dawson; Finog (villain, introduction)
Synopsis:Terry tries to work out how a heavily guarded ruby in a museum could be swapped with a fake.


Story Title: The Fairy Dance - comic story
Features:Jimmy Jupiter
Pages:6
Genre:children; fantasy
Characters:Jimmy Jupiter; The Wump-Jump; Ruffy Rabbit; the Little People (introduction); the Gnomes (villains, introduction)
Synopsis:Jimmy rides a moonbeam back to Nowhere and witnesses a fairy dance. But things take a turn for the worse when Gnomes attack.


Story Title: The House of Slaughter - comic story
Pages:8
Pencils:? (see notes)
Inks:? (see notes)
Genre:superhero
Characters:The Angel; Riesel (villain, introduction, death)
Synopsis:The Angel goes after a man who has kidnapped a woman from the street. He discovers a horror like no other.


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