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Publisher: Marvel

Title: All-Winners Comics
Issue: 5
Page Count: 68
Publish Date: Summer 1942
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Contributors: Editor: Stan Lee (credited)

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All Winners #5
Owner: walclark

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Story Title: [ no title ] - cover
Features:Human Torch; Captain America; Sub-Mariner
Pages:1
Genre:superhero
Characters:Captain America; Bucky; Human Torch; Toro; Sub-Mariner


Story Title: All Winners - table of contents
Pages:1
Letters:typeset
Characters: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.


Story Title: [ no title ] - comic story
Pages:12
Genre:superhero
Characters:Human Torch [Jim Hammond]; Toro [Thomas Raymond]; Captain Von Spitz (villain; introduction)
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.


Story Title: Don't Delay Another Second! - promo (ad from the publisher)
Features:Sentinels of Liberty
Pages:1
Genre:superhero
Characters:Captain America
Synopsis:Illustrated ad encouraging readers to join Cap's Sentinels of Liberty.


Story Title: [ no title ] - activity
Features:A Bit of Hocus Pocus
Pages:1
Characters: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.


Story Title: The Vampire Strikes! - comic story
Pages:12
Genre:superhero
Characters: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!


Story Title: [ no title ] - cartoon
Features:Patent Pending
Pages:1
Genre:humor
Synopsis:Illustrated one-panel gags portraying proposed inventions that people need to have.


Story Title: Speed on the Rampage - comic story
Pages:7
Genre:superhero
Characters: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.


Story Title: Smash Return! - promo (ad from the publisher)
Features:Human Torch; Sub-Mariner
Pages:1
Pencils:various
Inks:various
Genre:superhero
Characters: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.


Story Title: The Man in the Moon - text story
Pages:2
Letters:typeset
Genre:adventure
Characters: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!
Reprinted:in Primal Spillane: Early Stories 1941-1942 (Gryphon Books, 2004 series)


Story Title: [ no title ] - public service announcement
Pages:1
Pencils:? (illustration)
Inks:? (illustration)
Letters:?; typeset
Genre:advocacy
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.


Story Title: The Hermit's Island of Glittering Gold! - comic story
Features:Sub-Mariner
Pages:12
Genre:superhero
Characters: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.


Story Title: [ no title ] - cartoon
Features:Patent Pending
Pages:1
Genre:humor
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.


Story Title: The Demon's Deadly Secret! - comic story
Features:Destroyer
Pages:12
Genre:superhero
Characters: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.


Story Title: [ no title ] - activity
Features:A Bit of Hocus Pocus
Pages:1
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.


Story Title: Krazy Komics - promo (ad from the publisher)
Pages:1
Genre:anthropomorphic-funny animals
Characters:Ziggy Pig; Toughy Tomcat; Snappy Turtle; Posty Pelican; Dingaling


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