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Issue Details

Issue #32
Published June 1942
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details

Genre superhero
Pencils Al Gabriele
Inks Al Gabriele

12 page Human Torch story "The Statues of Doom"

Characters V: Frank Portl (I)
Synopsis Frank Portl, a sculptor, murders his secretary when she discovers that he has been smuggling military secrets to spies inside of his statutes. Torch and Toro deduce what had occurred at the scene of the crime and turn him over to police.
Genre superhero
Script Carl Burgos
Pencils Carl Burgos
Inks Carl Burgos

12 page Sub-Mariner story "Fingers of Death"

Characters V: Von Grubb (I)
Genre superhero
Script Lloyd V. Jaquet [ as Elvey Jay]
Pencils Carl Pfeufer
Inks Carl Pfeufer

7 page Vision story "The Secret of the Sharks"

Characters I: Leila; V: The Japanese (D)
Genre superhero
Script Stan Lee?
Pencils Vince Alascia?

2 page text story "Last Ride"

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)

7 page Jimmy Jupiter story "In the Land of the Fun People (Part 2)"

Characters I: Captain Cookie, the China People of Tea Land; V: The Bull in the China Shoppe (I), the Licorice Men (I)
Genre children; fantasy
Script Ed Robbins
Pencils Ed Robbins
Inks Ed Robbins

7 page Terry Vance story "The Mystery of the Phantom Robberies"

Characters GS: Deadline Dawson; V: The Phantom Burglar (I; Dr. Mefis)
Genre detective
Script Ray Gill
Pencils Bob Oksner
Inks Bob Oksner

6 page Patriot story "The Iron-Clawed Monster"

Characters V: The Japanese
Genre superhero
Pencils Al Fagaly
Inks Al Fagaly

10 page Angel story "The Ogre and the Man-Eating Boboes"

Characters V: The Ogre (I, D) and his Boboes (I, D)
Genre superhero
Pencils Al Fagaly
Inks Al Fagaly