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Issue Details

Issue #5
Published Summer 1942
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details

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).

1 page Human Torch; Captain America; Whizzer; Sub-Mariner foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "All Winners"

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).

12 page Human Torch story "Invading the Nazis' Secret Plan"

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).

1 page Sentinels of Liberty promo (ad from the publisher) "Don't Delay Another Second!"

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)

1 page A Bit of Hocus Pocus activity

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).

12 page Captain America story "The Vampire Strikes!"

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).

1 page Patent Pending filler

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).

7 page Whizzer story "Speed On the Rampage"

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).

1 page Human Torch; Sub-Mariner promo (ad from the publisher) "Smash Return!"

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)

2 page text story "The Man in the Moon"

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)

1 page Savings Bonds and Stamps public service announcement "A Special Message to the Boys and Girls of America From Henry Morgenthau, Jr. - Secretary of the Treasury!"

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).

12 page Sub-Mariner story "The Hermit's Island of Glittering Gold"

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).

1 page Patent Pending filler

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).

12 page Destroyer story "The Demon's Deadly Secret"

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).

1 page A Bit of Hocus Pocus filler

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).

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "Krazy Komics"

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)