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Issue Details

Issue #45
Published July 1943
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 60
Editing Vince Fago?

Cover Details

Genre superhero
Pencils Alex Schomburg
Inks Alex Schomburg

12 page Human Torch story "Message From a Corpse"

Characters V: Franz Papp (I, D), Von Grizer (I)
Synopsis During a shootout with the FBI, a Nazi spy is killed and buried in a secret grave. Another Nazi spy kidnaps the FBI agent who shot him and tortures him to death attempting to learn the location of the grave. They are able to divert Torch and Toro long enough to bring the body back to their hideout where they inject it with a chemical which reveals a message on its back. Torch and Toro track them back to the hideout and make sure that the message containing details of an Allied shipping convoy does not get into enemy hands.
Genre superhero
Pencils Harry Sahle
Inks Harry Sahle

12 page Sub-Mariner story "Phantom of the Air"

Characters V: Von Krop (I)
Genre superhero
Pencils Carl Pfeufer
Inks Carl Pfeufer

7 page Terry Vance story "Case of the Poison That Did Not Exist"

Characters V: Carl Wertz (I), a phony doctor (I)
Genre detective
Script Ray Gill?
Pencils Bob Oksner
Inks Bob Oksner

2 page text story "Uncle Sam's Nephew"

Letters typeset

7 page Jimmy Jupiter story "In the Valley of Time"

Characters I: Father Time, Once-Upon-A-Time, the Minute Men, Queen Time, Tick and Tock, etc.
Genre children; fantasy
Script Gus Hetman
Pencils Gus Hetman
Inks Gus Hetman

7 page Vision story "The Vision's Secret"

Characters I: Leme Tel, Mara; V: Totu (I, D), Kito (I, D), Juno (I, D); O: The Vision (details; may contradict story in #20)
Genre superhero
Pencils Syd Shores
Notes Inks credits originally given to Mike Sekowsky in error (per Tony Isabella, March 30, 2006)

8 page Angel story "Sabotage at the Ferry Base"

Characters V: Double-Beard (I)
Genre superhero
Script Roy Garn?
Pencils Gustav Schrotter
Inks Gustav Schrotter