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Issue Details

Issue #31
Published July 1948
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Editing Stan Lee*
Notes Inks credits originally given to Mike Sekowsky in error (per Tony Isabella, March 30, 2006)

Cover Details

Genre superhero
Pencils Mike Sekowsky
Notes Inks credits originally given to Mike Sekowsky in error (per Tony Isabella, March 30, 2006)

10 page Human Torch story "He Gambled On Death"

Characters V: The Gambler (I)
Synopsis The Gambler bets a mob that he can spring their boss from jail. He poses as a doctor and gets the man released. When Torch and Toro foil one of his crimes, he bets his life that Torch and Toro will die. When he fails in his bid to kill them, he spins a roulette wheel attached to dynamite in his riverboat which kills him.
Genre superhero
Pencils Syd Shores
Notes Inks credits originally given to Mike Sekowsky in error (per Tony Isabella, March 30, 2006)

8 page Sub-Mariner story "Troubador of Terror"

Characters GS: Namora; V: The Phantom Troubador (I)
Genre superhero
Pencils Mike Sekowsky?
Inks Vince Alascia?

2 page text story

Letters typeset

6 page Human Torch story "Man Who Could Foresee Doom"

Genre superhero
Pencils Gene Colan
Inks Al Avison?
Notes According to the first chapter (by Dr. Michael J. Vassallo) in the "The invincible Gene Colan" bibliographical book (Marvel), this story was pencilled by Gene Colan (see page 11).