Origin and first appearance of the All Winners Squad, Marvel's first superhero team. Assembled heroes include Captain America, Bucky, the Human Torch, Toro, Namor the Sub-Mariner, The Whizzer, and Miss America. Both Overstreet and The Photo-Journal Guide to Comic Books list this issue as "scarce".
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COVER DETAILS
Characters:
The All-Winners Squad [The Sub-Mariner [Prince Namor]; Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bucky [Bucky Barnes]; The Human Torch [Jim Hammond]; Toro; The Whizzer [Robert Frank]; Miss America [Madeline Joyce]]; Isbisa [Meke]
Notes:
Unknown pencils/inks per Michael J. Vassallo. Previous indexer credited Al Avison on pencils and Al Gabriele on inks.
Reprints:
Fantasy Masterpieces (Marvel, 1966 series) #10 (August 1967)
STORY DETAILS
Title:
The Crime of the Ages! [Chapter 1]
Characters:
The All-Winners Squad [Captain America [Steve Rogers] (see note for Chapter 7); Bucky [Bucky Barnes] (see note for Chapter 7); Human Torch [Jim Hammond]; Toro; The Sub-Mariner [Prince Namor]; Whizzer [Robert Frank]; Miss America [Madeline Joyce]]; Isbisa [Meke] (villain, introduction); Professor Saba (villain, introduction, museum curator)
Synopsis:
The All-Winners Squad is hurriedly called to meet with the curator of a museum, whose exhibit, "The Ages of Mankind", has been smashed. In addition, a note has been left, signed by the mysterious Isbisa, who has challenged the members to follow up various clues he has left with each part of the exhibit in a winner-take-all battle. To make matters graver, Ibisa has left a spurious clue behind, intimating that Prince Namor is a part of the enemy camp.
Pages:
5.000
Script:
Bill Finger
Pencils:
Syd Shores
Reprints:
Fantasy Masterpieces (Marvel, 1966 series) #10 (August 1967)
Notes:
Unknown inks per Michael J. Vassallo, who did the credits for The Masterworks edition. Previous indexer credited Al Avison.
Title:
[The Crime of the Ages!], Chapter 2: The Age of Bronze!
Characters:
Captain America [Steve Rogers] (see note for Chapter 7); Bucky [Bucky Barnes] (see note for Chapter 7); Isbisa (villain); Porky (villain, introduction); Cellini (villain, introduction)
Synopsis:
Cap and Bucky head to a museum of art to locate a valuable piece of bronze art and find the "Idol With the Starry Eyes".....a bronze idol that actually has star sapphires for eyes. When a gang infects the idol with "bronze disease", Cap figures out the crooks are planning to hijack the idol as it is shipped off for electrolysis treatment, only to discover the idol is a reed herring and the crooks really want to valuable art on display.
Pages:
8.000
Script:
Bill Finger
Pencils:
Allen Bellman; ?
Reprints:
Fantasy Masterpieces (Marvel, 1966 series) #10 (August 1967)
Notes:
Credits from The Masterworks edition per Michael J. Vassallo.
Title:
[The Crime of the Ages!], Chapter 3: The Iron Age!
Characters:
The Whizzer [Robert Frank]; Cameron (movie director); Clark (movie actor); Isbisa (villain); Shut-Eye (villain, introduction)
Synopsis:
Whizzer arrives at the movie set for a film involving the life of notorious train robber, Mal Brennings, and the director mentions that the old railroad locomotive was secured for the film that originally had been robbed of the non-recovered gold on board. Some of Isbisa's men attempt to rob the train again for real, but it is the Whizzer who discovers the missing gold under the planks of the locomotive's cab.
Pages:
6.000
Script:
Bill Finger
Pencils:
Syd Shores; ?
Reprints:
Fantasy Masterpieces (Marvel, 1966 series) #10 (August 1967)
Notes:
The Masterworks edition per Michael J. Vassallo credits Syd Shores and unknown as penciller and unknown inker.
Title:
[The Crime of the Ages!], Chapter 4 The Steel Age
Characters:
The Human Torch [Jim Hammond]; Bobby Lee (a policewoman, introduction); Isbisa (villain); James Flore (villain, introduction, architect)
Synopsis:
The Torch is lured into a trap, but is rescued by a lady policewoman who is engaged to a detective that wants her to quit the force. However, she refuses to do so until she can solve one important case, and the Torch offers to help her do just that. The case: why does a newly constructed bank have a secret entrance that connects to a sewage tunnel?
Pages:
8.000
Script:
Bill Finger
Reprints:
Fantasy Masterpieces (Marvel, 1966 series) #10 (August 1967)
Notes:
Unknown credits per Michael J. Vassallo via the Masterworks edition. Previous indexer credited Al Avison on pencils and Don Rico on inks.
Title:
Pearls of Wisdom
Characters:
Moffet (jewelry store owner); Gilleran (detective)
Synopsis:
The owner of Moffet Jewelry is exasperated because he has the largest supply of pearls in the area, but other jewelers are selling their pearls at half the price and nearly bankrupting Moffet. So he hires a detective named Gilleran to discover why his competitors are selling their pearls so cheaply.
Pages:
2.000
Letters:
typeset
Title:
[The Crime of the Ages!], Chapter 5: The Stone Age
Characters:
Miss America [Madeline Joyce]; John (Millstone Chief of Police); Isbisa (villain); the Calcium Master (villain, introduction, death)
Synopsis:
Miss America heads to Millstone to visit the Chief of Police, but finds him turned to stone. When she finds a note from someone called the Calcium Master, who claims to be able to restore him to life for $10,000, she smells a rat and tracks down the vile sculptor responsible.
Pages:
5.000
Script:
Bill Finger
Pencils:
Syd Shores
Reprints:
Fantasy Masterpieces (Marvel, 1966 series) #10 (August 1967)
Notes:
Unknown inks per Michael J. Vassallo from the Masterworks edition. Previous indexer credited Vince Alascia.
Title:
[The Crime of the Ages!], Chapter 6: The Ice Age!
Characters:
The Sub-Mariner [Prince Namor]; Toro [Thomas Raymond]; Isbisa (villain); Black Patch (villain, introduction)
Synopsis:
Toro joins Namor as the Prince heads up to a major Eskimo trading post to deal with a band of cut-throats who are using their whaling ship as a hideout for their fur hijacking mob!
Pages:
7.000
Script:
Bill Finger
Reprints:
Fantasy Masterpieces (Marvel, 1966 series) #10 (August 1967)
Notes:
Per The Masterworks edition via Michael J. Vassallo, art credits are unknown. Previous indexer credited Bob Powell on pencils and Al Avison on inks.
Title:
[The Crime of the Ages!], Chapter 7: Conclusion!
Characters:
The All-Winners Squad [Captain America [Steve Rogers] (see note); Bucky [Bucky Barnes] (see note); Human Torch [Jim Hammond]; Toro; Namor the Sub-Mariner; Miss America [Madeline Joyce]; Whizzer [Robert Frank]]; Isbisa [Meke] (villain)
Synopsis:
When the All-Winners Squad members reconvene after their various adventures, they discover Isbisa's challenge to them was a red herring, so that the master criminal would be free to pursue his main crime: the stealing of the atomic bomb, and to accomplish his main goal: to become dictator of the world!
Pages:
5.000
Script:
Bill Finger
Pencils:
Syd Shores
Reprints:
Fantasy Masterpieces (Marvel, 1966 series) #10 (August 1967)
Notes:
Shores pencil credit and unknown inks per Michael J. Vassallo via The Masterworks edition. Previous indexer credited Al Avison on pencils and Allen Bellman on inks.
Chronologically, the next All-Winners Squad story is in What If? (Marvel, 1977 series) #4, which retroactively establishes that the post-war Captain America and Bucky here are William Naslund (a.k.a. The Spirit of '76) and Fred Davis. In that story, Naslund is killed and replaced as Captain America by The Patriot (Jeff Mace).
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CGC Census Report*
Grade
0.5
1.0
1.5
1.8
2.0
2.5
3.0
3.5
4.0
4.5
5.0
5.5
6.0
6.5
7.0
7.5
8.0
8.5
9.0
9.2
9.4
9.6
9.8
9.9
10.0
Total
Universal
2
1
8
5
5
2
8
3
5
3
5
3
3
7
4
2
1
2
4
0
0
0
0
0
0
73
Qualified
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
Signature Series
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
Restored
0
0
4
1
1
0
1
0
0
1
1
2
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
11
Total
2
2
12
7
6
2
9
3
5
4
6
5
3
8
4
2
1
2
4
0
0
0
0
0
0
87
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