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Issue Details

Issue #61
Published January 1945
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 52
Editing Vince Fago?

Cover Details

Genre superhero
Pencils Alex Schomburg
Inks Alex Schomburg

12 page Human Torch story "The Secret of the Masked Horror"

Characters V: Jeffries (I, D), Jordan (I, D)
Synopsis The story starts off involving Torch and Toro in a murder case which appears that the chaffuer and housekeeper murder their boss, Mr. Jordon, for his inheritance. But after the housekeeper murders the chauffeur so as not to have to split the money, Torch and Toro pursue the car and "she" loses control of it and crashes. Torch removes the wig from the dead body of cross-dressing Mr. Jordon and realizes that he had the chauffeur pick out a double of him from the Bowery and kill him to fake his own death and collect the life insurance policy.
Genre superhero
Pencils Jimmy Thompson
Inks Jimmy Thompson

12 page Sub-Mariner story "Paradise of Horror"

Characters V: The Master Megalo (I, D), the Megalos (I, D; composite man-beast creatures)
Genre superhero
Pencils Allen Simon
Inks Allen Simon

7 page Miss America story "Eyes of Doom"

Characters V: Dr. Von Helstog (I, D)
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Charles Nicholas
Inks Charles Nicholas

2 page text story "Rock Point Light"

Letters typeset

7 page Patriot story "The Mystery of the Bogus Bonds"

Characters V: Hans and other Nazis (I for all)
Genre superhero
Pencils Al Bellman
Inks Al Bellman
Notes Patriot is maskless again

8 page Angel story "Secret of the Blind Idol"

Characters V: Zerhu (I, D)
Genre superhero
Pencils Jimmy Thompson
Inks Jimmy Thompson