Issue | #5 |
Published | Summer 1942 |
Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
Pages | 68 |
Editing | Stan Lee |
Characters | Captain America; Bucky; Human Torch; Toro; Sub-Mariner. |
Genre | superhero |
Inks | Bob Powell? |
Reprinted | In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners (Marvel, 2005 series) #2 (2006). |
Characters | Captain America; Bucky; Human Torch; Toro; Whizzer; Destroyer; Sub-Mariner. |
Synopsis | Table of Contents page, illustrated with head-views of features and brief story synopses. |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Found on the inside front cover. Oddity: on this page, the Destroyer is shown but the TOC doesn't list his story, and instead asks "Have you read 'Krazy Komics'"? Sequence and all info added by Craig Delich 7-3-08. |
Reprinted | In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners (Marvel, 2005 series) #2 (2006). |
Characters | Human Torch [Jim Hammond]; Toro; V: Captain Von Spitz (I). |
Synopsis | Torch and Toro discover that the Nazis are operating out of a steamship anchored to a pier at Coney Island, intending to deliver a bomb [along with needed tanks of oxygen] to a hospital in order to kill thousands. |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Carl Burgos? |
Pencils | Carl Burgos?; Al Fagaly? |
Inks | Carl Burgos |
Notes | Synopsis and some info added by Craig Delich 7-3-08. |
Reprinted | In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners (Marvel, 2005 series) #2 (2006). |
Characters | Captain America |
Synopsis | Illustrated ad encouraging readers to join Cap's Sentinels of Liberty. |
Genre | superhero |
Notes | Seiqence and all info added by Craig Delich 7-3-08. |
Reprinted | in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners (Marvel, 2005 series) #2 (2006) |
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. |
Pencils | "Red" Holmdale (signed) |
Inks | "Red" Holmdale (signed) |
Notes | Sequence and all info added by Craig Delich 7-3-08. |
Reprinted | In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners (Marvel, 2005 series) #2 (2006). |
Characters | Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bucky [Bucky Barnes]; Sgt. Duffy; V: The Vampire (I, D; Dr. Togu). |
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! |
Genre | superhero |
Pencils | Al Avison |
Inks | Don Rico |
Notes | Synopsis and some info added by Craig Delich 7-3-08. |
Reprinted | In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners (Marvel, 2005 series) #2 (2006). |
Synopsis | Illustrated one-panel gags portraying proposed inventions that people need to have. |
Genre | humor |
Script | Lou Paige (signed) |
Pencils | Lou Paige (signed) |
Inks | Lou Paige (signed) |
Notes | Writer credit and synopsis added by Craig Delich 7-3-08. |
Reprinted | In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners (Marvel, 2005 series) #2 (2006). |
Characters | The Whizzer; V: Warden Balew & his gang. |
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. |
Genre | superhero |
Pencils | Howard James (signed) |
Inks | Howard James (signed) |
Notes | Synopsis and some info added by Craig Delich 7-3-08. |
Reprinted | In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners (Marvel, 2005 series) #2 (2006). |
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. |
Genre | superhero |
Pencils | various |
Inks | various |
Notes | Sequence and all info added by Craig Delich 7-3-08. |
Reprinted | in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners (Marvel, 2005 series) #2 (2006) |
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! |
Genre | adventure |
Script | Mickey Spillane (signed as Spillane) |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Much info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 7-3-08. Reprint note for Primal Spillane from Arthur Lortie, August 2008. |
Reprinted | In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners (Marvel, 2005 series) #2 (2006); in Primal Spillane: Early Stories 1941-1942 (Gryphon Books, 2004 series) |
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. |
Genre | fact |
Pencils | ? [spot illo] |
Inks | ? [spot illo] |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Sequence and all info added by Craig Delich 7-3-08. |
Reprinted | In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners (Marvel, 2005 series) #2 (2006). |
Characters | The Sub-Mariner [Prince Namor]; un-named hermit; V: Marshal Doering (I), the Nazis. |
Synopsis | After up-ending a boatload of Nazis into the drink, Namor lands on an isle, only to discover it is covered with gold. Howeverm 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. |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Bill Everett? |
Pencils | Bill Everett |
Inks | Carl Pfeufer? |
Notes | Synopsis added by Craig Delich 7-3-08. |
Reprinted | In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners (Marvel, 2005 series) #2 (2006). |
Synopsis | In a series of one pages panels, the writer/artist illustrates inventions that should be patented to make people's life a bit easier. |
Genre | humor |
Script | Lou Paige (signed) |
Pencils | Lou Paige (signed) |
Inks | Lou Paige (signed) |
Letters | Lou Paige |
Notes | Sequence and all info added by Craig Delich 7-3-08. |
Reprinted | In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners (Marvel, 2005 series) #2 (2006). |
Characters | The Destroyer [Keen Marlowe]; Paul Voltz [D]; V: Captain Achhimmell, Inga Von Leche (I for both). |
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. |
Genre | superhero |
Pencils | John Forte (signed as Forte) |
Inks | John Forte (signed as Forte) |
Notes | Synopsis and some info added by Craig Delich 7-3-08. |
Reprinted | In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners (Marvel, 2005 series) #2 (2006). |
Characters | Keith Clark |
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. |
Pencils | "Red" Holmdale |
Inks | "Red" Holmdale |
Notes | Synopsis and other info added by Craig Delich 7-3-08. |
Reprinted | In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners (Marvel, 2005 series) #2 (2006). |
Characters | Ziggy Pig; Toughy Tomcat; Snappy Turtle; Posty Pelican; Dingaling |
Genre | funny animals |
Pencils | Lee King [as Lee] (signed) |
Inks | Lee King [as Lee] (signed) |
Notes | On the back cover. Sequence and all info added by Craig Delich 7-4-08. |
Reprinted | in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners (Marvel, 2005 series) #2 (2006) |