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Issue Details

Issue #34
Published August 1942
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details

Genre superhero
Pencils Alex Schomburg
Inks Alex Schomburg

12 page Human Torch story "Carl Burgos Meets the Human Torch"

Characters I: Carl Burgos, Bill Everett, Martin Goodman, and the Timely Comics staff; V: Adolf Hitler, Hermann Goering, Josef Goebbels, and assorted Nazis
Synopsis Carl Burgos is stuck for a story with a deadline looming when suddenly Torch and Toro spring to life from his drawing board. They give him an idea for mocking Hitler and Martin Goodman approves it. Torch and Toro guard the comic books from Nazi attempts to destroy them on their way to England and as they are distributed from planes to German citizens. Enraged, Hitler orders anyone who laughs at the comics to be shot and demands Carl Burgos be assassinated. Carl plans another story conference with Torch, Toro and Sub-Mariner at a diner where a Nazi agent has replaced the soda jerker. Carl collapses after drinking the soda and is taken to the hospital. Torch and Toro apprehend the spy and Carl recovers since they should have known better than to try and poison a guy with a cast iron stomach.
Genre superhero
Script Carl Burgos
Pencils Carl Burgos
Inks Carl Burgos

12 page Sub-Mariner story "The Shark Subterfuge"

Characters V: Grizzly Pete (I, D), Mr. Klutz (I, D), the Nazis
Genre superhero
Pencils Carl Pfeufer
Inks Carl Pfeufer

7 page Vision story "The Beast of Cactus Canyon"

Characters V: The Beast of Cactus Canyon (I, D), Myron (I, D)
Genre superhero
Script Stan Lee?
Pencils Syd Shores
Inks Al Gabriele

2 page text story "The Curse of Tutkenamen"

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 "Exposed! The Jap Invaders"

Characters V: A Japanese scientist (turned into a lizard) and his Ape-Men (I, D)
Genre superhero
Pencils Al Fagaly
Inks Al Fagaly

7 page Terry Vance story "Dr. Watson Makes Monkeys Out of the Japs"

Characters V: Capt. Nokuru (I, D), a Japanese admiral (I, D)
Genre detective
Script Ray Gill?
Pencils Bob Oksner
Inks Bob Oksner

7 page Jimmy Jupiter story "In His Tunnel To China"

Characters V: Satan, Werjil (I), Matilda (I), Temptation (I); I: Will Power (a hero); Jimmy goes to Hades
Genre children; fantasy
Script Ed Robbins
Pencils Ed Robbins
Inks Ed Robbins

10 page Angel story "The Curse of Professor Torture"

Characters V: Prof. Torture (I, D)
Genre superhero
Pencils Al Fagaly?
Inks Al Fagaly?