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Publisher: Marvel

Title: Marvel Mystery Comics
Issue: 4
Page Count: 68
Publish Date: February 1940
Volume: 1

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Marvel Mystery Comics #4
Owner: walclark

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Story Title: [ no title ] - cover
Pages:1
Genre:superhero
Characters:The Sub-Mariner [Prince Namor]; the Nazis


Story Title: Marvel Comics' Free $25.00 Prize Contest - promo (ad from the publisher)
Features:Marvel Comics
Pages:1
Letters:typeset


Story Title: New York Hit by Green Flame - comic story
Pages:12
Genre:superhero
Characters:The Human Torch [Jim Hammond]; Inspector Reiss; Clancy (Policeman); Johnson; Maizie (introduction, underecover Policewoman); Dr. Manyac (villain, introduction); the Green Flames (villains, introduction for all, some deaths)
Synopsis:Torch has to deal with the threat of Dr. Manyac, who plans to use the Green Flames as a tool to exact revenge if his demands are not met.


Story Title: Butch the Giant - comic story
Pages:8
Genre:superhero
Characters:The Angel [Tom Halloway]; Butch (villain, introduction, death, a giant); Rickie (villain, death); Brink (villain, introduction); Weasel (villain, death)
Synopsis:The Angel ventures into the Devil's Playground, which harbors killers, murderers, and every other imaginable menace to civilization, in order to battle a giant who carries out the gruesome activities.


Story Title: The Sub-Mariner Goes to War - comic story
Pages:10
Genre:superhero
Characters:The Sub-Mariner [Prince Namor]; Betty Dean; Tha-Korr; Council of Three (introduction, Atlantean rulers); the Nazis (villains)
Synopsis:Betty, concerned with what effect the Nazi submarine warfare has had on ocean-going travel and commerce, enlists the aid of the Sub-Mariner and his aerial subs to deal with the problem.


Story Title: The Claim Jumpers - comic story
Features:The Masked Raider
Pages:8
Genre:western-frontier
Characters:The Masked Raider [Jim Gardley]; Zeb; Luke; Manuel; Ben; Buck and his gang (villains, some die)
Synopsis:A couple of prospectors discover a large gold deposit on their property but are threatened by local crooks looking for the location of that claim.


Story Title: Warning Enough - text story
Pages:1.75
Letters:typeset
Genre:detective-mystery
Characters:Steve; Naylor; Jim Stinson; "Slip" Rodney (villain)
Synopsis:Steve picks up a hitchhiker along side a road, not knowing that he is a wanted killer.


Story Title: Statement of ownership, management, circulation, etc. - statement of ownership
Pages:0.25
Letters:typeset
Synopsis:Statement of ownership of "Marvel Mystery Comics, published monthly, at Buffalo, New York, for October 1, 1939."


Story Title: [ no title ] - comic story
Features:Electro, the Marvel of the Age
Pages:8
Genre:superhero
Characters:Electro (introduction, origin, a robot); Prof. Philo Zog (Electro's creator); the twelve Secret Operatives (introduction); Dick Gardner (secret operative #3); Little Joyce Lovely; Hymie "The Weasel" Pazetto (villain, introduction)
Synopsis:Professor Zog creates a marvelous robot, all-powerful and intelligent, as a means of helping humanity banish all crime and evil. Electro's first task is to rescue a kidnapped child actress.


Story Title: Quest for a Crime Boss - comic story
Pages:6
Genre:detective-mystery
Characters:Ferret (introduction); Lynn Froehm; Doc Wagner (villain, introduction); Knuckles Johnson (villain, death)
Synopsis:Our hero faces a challenge from the underworld, which hasn't taken a liking to his "crime doesn't pay" articles and is out robbing and killing people for jewelry.


Story Title: Fourth Episode [Return of the Oman] - comic story
Pages:10
Genre:jungle
Characters:Ka-Zar [David Rand]; Zar (a lion); Chaka (ape leader); N'Jaga (a leopard); Sinessa (a snake); Kru (a vulture); Trajah (an elephant); Paul De Kraft [aka Fat Face] (villain); Ed Kivlin (villain, introduction); Inkosi (villain)
Synopsis:De Kraft returns to the Belgian Congo, where, years earlier, he had killed Ka-Zar's parents, and when Ka-Zar spots him, he swears revenge. De Kraft uses deadly tactics to deal with the natives, who want to desert him because they fear retribution from the "Jungle God."


Story Title: Rush Coupon for Mammoth Catalog - advertisement
Features:Johnson Smith & Co.
Pages:1
Letters:typeset


Story Title: Money and Big Prizes - advertisement
Features:The Crowell-Collier Publishing Co.
Pages:1
Letters:typeset


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