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Issue Details

Issue #73
Published June 1946
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 52
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details

Genre superhero
Pencils Vince Alascia
Inks Vince Alascia

12 page Human Torch story "Killer Boss of Westport"

Characters V: Danny Grogan (I, D), Jeff Gravis (I), Nitro (I)
Synopsis A gangster named Grogan is in cahoots with the local law running the town of Westport. When one of the members of the civic league is blown up in his house the remaining members of the civic league phone in Torch and Toro. Torch gets a call from one of Grogan's gang who wants to talk, for a price. When they arrive at his house they find the man dead, and narrowly miss being the victims of a timebomb set to catch them in its blast. Torch finds a galley copy of the local newspaper at the scene and realizes the dead man must have been poisoned by the newspaper editor, since he is the only other member of the civic league who was aware of Torch and Toro's plans. When confronted, the newspaper editor confesses.
Genre superhero
Pencils Jimmy Thompson
Inks Jimmy Thompson

12 page Sub-Mariner story "Politicians' Plunder"

Characters GS: Betty Dean; V: Benson (I), Raymonde (I)
Genre superhero
Pencils Allen Simon
Inks Allen Simon

7 page Miss America story "The Ghoul of the 13th Floor"

Characters V: The Ghoul (I; Joshua Crown)
Genre superhero
Pencils Charles Nicholas
Inks Charles Nicholas

2 page text story "Desert Bandit"

Letters typeset

7 page Patriot story "The Case of the Gagging Gangsters"

Characters I: Bandy Cole
Genre superhero
Pencils Bob Oksner?
Inks Bob Oksner?

8 page Angel story "The Missing Weapon"

Characters V: Dan (I), Tom (I)
Genre superhero
Pencils Al Gabriele
Inks Bob Oksner?