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Issue Details

Issue #49
Published November 1943
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 60
Editing Vince Fago?

Cover Details

Genre superhero
Pencils Syd Shores
Inks Syd Shores

12 page Human Torch story "Flight of the Deadly Boomerang"

Characters V: The Kangaroo Man (I, D)
Synopsis The Kangaroo Man uses a boomerang coated with a chemical that transforms blood into gasoline to kill his brother. His brother refused to finance his research on ethical grounds, and when the Japanese agreed to help, they demanded the Kangaroo Man silence his brother. Since Torch and Toro have captured him, he confesses everything and says he really didn't want the Japanese to get his formula. As he has previously injected himself with his chemical, he lights his final cigarette and bursts into flames.
Genre superhero
Pencils Harry Sahle
Inks Harry Sahle

12 page Sub-Mariner story "Unveiling the Evil Eyes of Death"

Characters V: Saber Tooth (I, D)
Synopsis The story takes place at a relocation camp for Japanese-Americans.
Genre superhero
Pencils Allen Simon
Inks Allen Simon

7 page Terry Vance story "The Mysterious Case of the Talking Thread"

Characters GS: Deadline Dawson; V: A Nazi spy (I, D)
Genre detective
Pencils Carl Pfeufer?
Inks Carl Pfeufer?

2 page text story "The Last Laugh"

Letters typeset

7 page Miss America story "Scourge of the Nazis"

Characters I & O: Miss America (Madeline Joyce); I: James Bennett (her guardian), Prof. Lawson (I, D); V: Nazi saboteurs (I)
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Al Gabriele
Inks Al Gabriele
Notes continued next issue

7 page Patriot story "Black Mamba Murder"

Characters I: Mr. Hughs (D), Mrs. Check (his daughter); V: a butler (I, D)
Genre superhero
Pencils Syd Shores
Inks Syd Shores

8 page Angel story "A Lesson In Murder"

Characters V: The Mad Boar (I)
Genre superhero
Script Stan Lee?
Pencils Gustav Schrotter
Inks Gustav Schrotter