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Issue Details

Issue #30
Published April 1942
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details

Genre superhero
Pencils Al Gabriele
Inks Al Gabriele
Letters typeset

15 page Human Torch story "March of the Metal Mobsters"

Characters V: The Metal Mobsters (I; including Stephen Cole); I: Mary Orchid, Leslie Garden
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.
Genre superhero
Script Carl Burgos
Pencils Carl Burgos
Inks Carl Burgos

12 page Sub-Mariner story "Reprisal Revenge"

Characters GS: Princess Fen; V: The Nazis (a whole bunch D)
Synopsis Sub-Mariner almost liberates France.
Genre superhero
Script Bill Everett
Pencils Bill Everett
Inks Bill Everett

7 page Vision story "The Crank"

Characters V: The Crank (I, D; Powers) and his secretary (I, D)
Genre superhero
Script Stan Lee?
Pencils Syd Shores
Inks Syd Shores

2 page text story "Lumps of Death"

Script Mickey Spillane
Letters typeset
Notes Reprint note from Arthur Lortie, August 2008.
Reprinted in Primal Spillane: Early Stories 1941-1942 (Gryphon Books, 2004 series)

6 page Patriot story "The Mystery of the Flying Corpses"

Characters V: Dr. Strasser (I, D)
Genre superhero
Pencils Al Fagaly
Inks Al Fagaly

7 page Terry Vance story "The Mystery of the Pharaoh's Eye"

Characters GS: Deadline Dawson; V: Finog (I)
Genre detective
Script Ray Gill
Pencils Bob Oksner
Inks Bob Oksner

6 page Jimmy Jupiter story "The Fairy Dance"

Characters GS: The Wump-Jump, Ruffy Rabbit; I: the Little People; V: the Gnomes (I)
Genre children; fantasy
Script Ed Robbins
Pencils Ed Robbins
Inks Ed Robbins

Angel story "The House of Slaughter"

Characters V: Riesel (I, D)
Genre superhero
Pencils Paul Gustavson?
Inks Paul Gustavson?