Nazi firing squad cover by Alex Schomburg, featuring the Human Torch and the Sub-Mariner. "Marvel Get Together" text story by Stan Lee. Story art by Bill Everett, Carl Burgos, Jack Kirby, Bob Oksner, Sid Greene, and Al Avison.
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COVER DETAILS
Characters:
Human Torch [Jim Hammond]; Toro [Thomas Raymond]; Sub-Mariner [Prince Namor]; the Nazis
Pencils:
Alex Schomburg
Inks:
Alex Schomburg
STORY DETAILS
Title:
The King Crime Syndicate
Characters:
The Human Torch [Jim Hammond]; Toro [Thomas Raymond]; Tom (Policeman); Steve (reporter for "The Voice"); un-mnamed managing editor of "The Voice"; The King [Steve] (villain, death); Rocky (villain, death)
Synopsis:
A numbers gangster decides to move into healthcare by kidnapping pharmacists and forcing them to create black market drugs. He shoots one of them at the hospital when he protests and he throws another into a vat of acid in his hideout chemical lab when the man refuses to produce drugs that are dangerous to people. Torch and Toro set off an explosion which kills the gangster.
Pages:
15.000
Script:
Carl Burgos (signed)
Pencils:
Carl Burgos (signed)
Inks:
Carl Burgos (signed)
Notes:
The Masterworks edition lists the inker as unknown.
Title:
The Little People
Characters:
The Sub-Mariner [Prince Namor]; Dorma; Betty Dean; Luther Robinson; Lynne Harris; Carma (Imperial guard); Queen Jarna (villain, Queen of the Lavorites); the Lavorites ("the Little People"); Joseph (villain, butler); un-named German spies (villains)
Synopsis:
Namor is called in to investigate strange happenings at the seashore, and he discovers a race of little people and a Queen Jarna from the planet Venus, who came to Earth in a rocket ship as a springboard to an invasion.
Pages:
12.000
Script:
Bill Everett (signed)
Pencils:
Bill Everett (signed)
Inks:
Bill Everett (signed)
Letters:
Bill Everett
Notes:
Continued next issue. The Masterworks edition lists the inker as unknown.
Characters:
The Patriot [Jeffrey Mace]; Mark Casey (newspaper reporter); Herr Huss (villain, Hitler's right hand man, death); John Garrett (villain, a pro-Nazi American, death); Garrett's butler (villain)
Synopsis:
Casey gets a hot tip that the Patriot has been shot by Huss and heads toward the Garrett home, when he is captured and walled-in alive to die.
Pages:
5.000
Script:
Ray Gill ?
Pencils:
Sid Greene (signed)
Inks:
Sid Greene (signed)
Notes:
The Masterworks edition lists the writer as unknown.
Title:
Marvel Get-Together
Characters:
Human Torch [Jim Hammond]; Toro [Thomas Raymond]; Terry Vance; the Angel [Tom Hallaway]; the Patriot [Jeffrey Mace]; Ka-Zar; Sub-Mariner [Prince Namor]; the Vision [Aarkus]
Synopsis:
The heroes get together for their monthly meeting to compare notes and to adopt a resolution that the heroes would do all in their power to preserve the sacred principles and ideals of American democracy, and to crush the fiendish efforts of the underworld for all time.
Pages:
2.000
Script:
Stan Lee (signed)
Pencils:
? (spot illustration)
Inks:
? (spot illustration)
Letters:
typeset
Notes:
Supposedly continued next issue, but it did not appear.
Title:
The Forest Fire Saboteur
Characters:
Terry Vance; Deadline Dawson; Bull Dawson; un-named Nazi arsonist (villain)
Synopsis:
Terry meets and defeats a Nazi arsonist, who has been destroying forested areas owned by Bull Dawson.
Pages:
7.000
Script:
Ray Gill (signed)
Pencils:
Bob Oksner [as Robert Oksner] (signed)
Inks:
Bob Oksner [as Robert Oksner] (signed)
Notes:
The Masterworks edition states that Oksner only did layouts for this story, and the finished penciler and inker are unknown.
Title:
The Vengeance of Saba
Characters:
Ka-Zar [David Rand]; Saba (brother of Ali Hamud, death); Ali Hamud (villain, renegade Arab prince, death); Captain Olendorff (villain, death)
Synopsis:
Ka-Zar and Saba escape the evil clutches of Ali Hamud and Captain Olendorff, who are attempting to use their jungle fortress as a secret air and supply base for the Nazis attacking the British in South Africa. Saba lights the fuse that destroys the base and everyone inside, but Ka-Zar is caught in the explosiion and seriously hurt or killed.
Pages:
6.000
Script:
Ben Thompson ?
Pencils:
Ben Thompson
Inks:
Ben Thompson
Notes:
Continued next issue. ? added to the writer by Craig Delich 2012-7-22, as the Who's Who does not list a writer for the strip, nor lists that Thompson was a writer at all.
Title:
The Book of Sorcery
Characters:
The Vision [Aarkus]; un-named Lecture Guild chairman; Professor Enric Zagnar (villain, metaphysics instructor, death)
Synopsis:
The Vision must face a mad professor who believes that the laws of nature are meant to be broken and that man must take the power into his own hands to control all the elements. Zagnar does, with horrific results!
Pages:
7.000
Script:
Jack Kirby ?; Joe Simon ?
Pencils:
Jack Kirby; Al Avison; Mike Sekowsky ? (see notes)
Notes:
The Masterworks edition lists the writer[s] as unknown. Per Michael J, Vassallo via Atlas Tales (and his art id for the Masterworks): "Kirby splash and some Kirby layouts or breakdowns. Al Avison pencils attributed
A mish-mash of Avison(?), Hart (?) and a guess at Sekowsky (?)" Previous indexer credited Kirby on pencils and Simon on inks.
Synopsis:
The Angel comes to see the Python pay for his crimes in the electric chair, but the wiley villain seizes the warden, and, with the help of the other inmates, attempts to break through lines of U.S. servicemen sent to quell the riot.
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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
0
2
2
1
2
3
2
5
3
4
2
4
3
3
3
4
3
3
0
1
1
0
0
0
53
Qualified
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
Signature Series
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
Restored
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
4
1
1
0
1
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
10
Total
2
0
2
2
1
2
4
6
6
5
6
3
4
3
4
3
4
3
3
1
1
1
0
0
0
66
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