Ka-Zar features end in this issue. The Vision battles Satan. The Human Torch is featured on the Nazi war cover by Alex Schomburg that also features Toro in bondage. Bill Everett, Carl Burgos, and Paul Gustavson art.
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COVER DETAILS
Characters:
The Human Torch [Jim Hammond]; Toro [Thomas Raymond]; the Nazis
Pencils:
Alex Schomburg
Inks:
Alex Schomburg
Letters:
typeset
STORY DETAILS
Title:
The Flaming Arrow Murders
Characters:
Human Torch [Jim Hammond]; Toro [Thomas Raymond]; Marvin Raleigh (owner of the Raleigh Tank Corporation); The Saint [John Borden] (villain, Raleigh's secretary); Nick Finelli (villain, death)
Synopsis:
Torch and Toro must stop the criminal designs of The Saint, who, along with his gang, is out to steal the plans for a new super air tank that the Raleigh Corporation is building.
Pages:
15.000
Script:
Carl Burgos (signed)
Pencils:
Carl Burgos (signed)
Inks:
Carl Burgos (signed)
Title:
The Fox's Smuggling Racket
Characters:
The Sub-Mariner [Prince Namor]; George (dock worker); The Fox [Jasper Whifflegears] (villain); "Red" Larson (villain, 2nd in command); Mike (villain)
Synopsis:
Namor hears from a dock worker (aka "brush man"), who handles fur cargoes shipped in from Alaska, that no more shipments are being received and that the furs are somehow being smuggled in. Sub-Mariner investigates and discovers that The Fox is putting the stolen furs in torpedo-like metal tubes with motors and fires them into an underground river that leads to the United States.
Pages:
12.000
Script:
Bill Everett (signed)
Pencils:
Bill Everett (signed)
Inks:
Bill Everett (signed)
Notes:
The Masterworks edition lists writer and inker as unknown. The last panel mentions that Sub-Mariner Comics #3 went on sale about October 1, 1941.
Title:
A Business Meeting In Hell
Characters:
The Vision [Aarkus]; Lucifer Satan [Victor Tisling] (villain); Satan's un-named sales manager (villain)
Synopsis:
Satan demands that his sales manager quit falling down on the job and see to it that the only evil-free city in the United States, Arbor City, is turned into a hotbed of evil and misery. So he decides to send a special agent to Arbor City, in the guise of a local hero, to accomplish the deed.
Pages:
7.000
Pencils:
Al Avison
Inks:
George Klein; ?
Notes:
The Masterworks edition lists writer as unknown. Previous indexer credited Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. Avison pencils and Klein and unknown inks per Michael J. Vassallo via atlastales.com and the Masterworks. Previous indexer credited Jack Kirby and David Walters.
Title:
Quick Thinking, or, How Good a Detective Are You?
Characters:
Tom Moriarity; Eddie Thompson (mailman); un-named girl (death); Henry Gordon (bank guard); un-named gang of bank robbers (villains)
Synopsis:
Ed warned Old Tom that some notorious bank robbers and killers in Kenton were headed his way and to be on the alert. They arrived and held Tom prisoner, but he quickly turned the tables on the crooks.
Pages:
2.000
Letters:
typeset
Title:
Voodini's Last Laugh From the Grave
Characters:
Terry Vance; Dr. Watson (a monkey); Deadline Dawson; Professor Voodini's un-named lawyer; six un-named relatives of Professor Voodini (two die); Professor Voodini (villain, death); Professor Voodini's un-named butler (villain)
Synopsis:
The relatives of the late Professor Voodini gather at his mansion to listen to the reading of the will, whose contents lead to several murders and the re-appearance of the evil professor.
Pages:
7.000
Script:
Ray Gill (signed)
Pencils:
Bob Oksner (signed)
Inks:
Bob Oksner (signed)
Notes:
The Masterworks edition lists pencil layout artist as Oksner, but finished penciler and inker as unknown.
Title:
Death To Spies!
Characters:
The Patriot [Jeffrey Mace]; Mary; Guinaldo (villain, murderous Filipino); Suoka (villain, Japanese secret agent, death)
Synopsis:
Suoka has appointed a Filipino bolo wielder to murder Lt. Curtis, but the Patriot interferes and prevents the crime, finally tracking down the Japanese secret agent behind the murder plot.
Pages:
5.000
Script:
Ray Gill ?
Pencils:
Sid Greene
Notes:
The Masterworks edition lists the writer as unknown. Sid Greene pencils and unknown inks per Michael J. Vassalo via the Masterworks. Previous indexer credited Ray Houlihan.
Title:
Death Rings the Bell!
Characters:
The Angel [Tom Halloway]; Richard Brown (death); Abigail Brown (Richard Brown's sister, death); unnamed butler to the late Jonathan Brown; unnamed servant girl to the late Jonathan Brown; Sprague (carillon player for the late Jonathan Brown); the Phantom of the Bell Tower (villain, brother of Abigail Brown)
Synopsis:
The Angel investigates weird deaths associated with the ringing of the carillon belonging to the late millionaire, Jonathan Brown.
Pages:
9.000
Script:
Paul Gustavson ?; Kermit Jaediker ?
Pencils:
Paul Gustavson
Inks:
Paul Gustavson
Letters:
Paul Gustavson
Notes:
The Masterworks edition lists the writer and artist(s) as unknown.
The writer may have been either Gustavson (who wrote the feature into 1942) or Jaediker (who also wrote the feature sometime in 1942), so both are added to script credit with ? after their names.
All Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson.
Title:
Fighting for the Free French
Characters:
Ka-Zar [David Rand]; the Nazis (villains, all die)
Synopsis:
Arriving in French Equatorial Africa, Ka-Zar is captured by the Nazis and used as a decoy to sucker French ships into submarine range.
Pages:
6.000
Script:
Ben Thompson ?
Pencils:
Ben Thompson (signed)
Notes:
Last appearance. The Masterworks edition lists the writer and inker as unknown. Writer ? added by Craig Delich 2012-8-5. The Who's Who indicates that Thompson was an artist only.
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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
0
0
0
0
0
3
3
3
5
2
6
0
2
7
5
3
2
1
0
0
1
1
0
0
0
44
Qualified
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
0
0
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
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Restored
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
1
0
2
1
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
7
Total
0
0
0
1
0
3
3
3
8
2
6
0
2
8
5
5
3
1
1
0
1
1
0
0
0
53
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