Classic bondage / hooded-cultist / acid bath cover by Alex Schomburg. Story art by Bob Oksner, Al Fagaly, Bill Everett, and Carl Burgos. Story by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. Text feature by Mickey Spillane.
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COVER DETAILS
Characters:
The Human Torch [Jim Hammond]
Pencils:
Alex Schomburg
Inks:
Alex Schomburg
STORY DETAILS
Title:
The Poison Pill Suicides
Characters:
The Human Torch [Jim Hammond]; Toro [Thomas Raymond]; Mr. Martin (death); un-named Police Commissioner; Izan (villain, introduction); five un-named henchmen of Izan (villains, all die)
Synopsis:
Torch and Toro are invited to lead the Coney Island Mardi Gras pageant, but a henchman of a gunrunner named Izan succeeds in interrupting the event with a bomb before committing suicide with a poison pill rather than facing his boss's judgment to be drowned for failure. Izan captures Torch and Toro with gas and places them into glass coffin tubes which he plans to dump into the sea. Discovering a leak in the tube, the Torch flames on and superheats the glass so that it shatters when it hits the water. He frees Toro and they capture Izan.
Pages:
15.000
Script:
Carl Burgos (signed)
Pencils:
Carl Burgos (signed)
Inks:
Carl Burgos (signed); Harry Sahle ?
Notes:
Sahle credit per Michael J. Vassallo via the Masterworks.
Title:
The Flying Dutchman
Characters:
The Sub-Mariner [Prince Namor]; Mr. Larson (sailor); Rogers (naval diver); Baby Dean McCarthy (introduction, Betty Dean's sister and Slug's wife); The Falcon (villain, introduction, death); Chuck "Slug" McCarthy (villain, introduction, reforms); Oliver (villain)
Synopsis:
Intrigued by four ship sinkings by a mysterious 18th-century ghost ship, Namor figures that the tremendous loss of gold shipments carried aboard those ships must be the work of a 20th-century pirate who has bolted the ghost ship to a submarine. Walking into a trap, Namor is rescued by the sister of Policewoman Betty Dean, who, along with her husband, are being coerced into helping the Falcon.
Pages:
12.000
Script:
Bill Everett (signed)
Pencils:
Bill Everett (signed)
Inks:
Bill Everett (signed)
Letters:
Bill Everett
Title:
The Soul Stealer
Characters:
The Vision [Aarkus]; Guardian of the Spirit World (introduction); Dr. Zadig; Dr. Parker; Dr. Schlissel; un-named police chief; Dr. Igor Korbeau (villain, introduction, death)
Synopsis:
The Vision comes to Earth to battle the "Mad Man of Science", Dr. Korbeau, who has discovered the secret of man's soul and how to remove it. Korbeau removes the souls of seven of his scientific competitors, but the Vision takes the scientists to the spirit world to reclaim their souls before a showdown with the evil doctor.
Pages:
7.000
Pencils:
Al Avison; Ernie Hart
Inks:
Syd Shores; George Klein
Notes:
The Masterworks edition lists writer as unknown. Previous indexer credited Jack Kirby and Joe Simon. Art credits per Michael J. Vassallo via the Masterworks. Previous indexer credited Jack Kirby and David Walters.
Title:
The Sea of Grassy Death
Characters:
Jack; Slim; the Germans (villains)
Synopsis:
Two sailors run into a storm and find themselves marooned in the Sargasso Sea, facing yet a greater terror that would prove dangerous to Allied shipping.
Pages:
1.670
Script:
Mickey Spillane (signed)
Letters:
typeset
Notes:
First reprint note from Arthur Lortie, August 2008. The second page has the Statement of Ownership, which lists Martin Goodman as Managing Editor and Abraham Goodman as Business Manager.
Title:
The Green-Faced Man
Characters:
The Patriot [Jeffrey Mace]; Casey (Daily Bugle reporter); Mary Morgan (Daily Bugle reporter); Green Face [Reibel] (villain, introduction); Fritz (villain)
Synopsis:
The celebrated trial of the Green-Faced Man is interrupted when the prisoner's gang frees him with an attack of gas. However, the Patriot tracks him down to dispense well-earned justice.
Pages:
6.000
Pencils:
Al Fagaly (signed)
Inks:
Al Fagaly (signed)
Title:
The Case of the Deadly Letters
Characters:
Terry Vance; Drt. Watson (a monkey); Deadline Dawson; Detective Jenks; Aubrey De Woode (Hollywood director; death); un-named butler of Aubrey de Woode; Gordon De Wolfe (villain, introduction, nephew of Aubrey de Woode)
Synopsis:
Terry and Deadline suspect that Hollywood director Aubrey de Woode did not commit suicide, but was murdered, and they suspect the dead man's nephew, even though the police have ruled the young man out as a suspect.
Pages:
7.000
Script:
Ray Gill (signed)
Pencils:
Bob Oksner (signed, see notes)
Notes:
The Masterworks edition lists Oksner as providing layouts while the finished penciler and inker are unknown.
Title:
Strange Adventures in the Land of Nowhere
Characters:
Jimmy Jupiter (introduction); inhabitants of the Land of Nowhere [Elmer Tree; un-named woman; un-named talking trees] (introduction for all); The Wump-Jump (villain, introduction, a dragon)
Synopsis:
Jimmy is taken up in an airplane but forgets to fasten his safety belt, and falls out of the plane, landing on a soft cloud. He discovers he is in the Land of Nowhere and the only way back to Earth is to locate the Mountain of Wunt
Pages:
6.000
Script:
Ed Robbins ? [as E. Robbins] (signed)
Pencils:
Ed Robbins [as E. Robbins] (signed)
Inks:
Ed Robbins ? [as E. Robbins] (signed)
Notes:
The Who's Who lists Robbins as penciler only on this strip.
A Little Nemo inspired series which also owes to Alice in Wonderland, Land of Oz, etc.
Title:
The Horror of the Haunted Cathedral
Characters:
The Angel [Thomas Halloway]; the Russians; zombie Monk; General Henchel (villain, introduction, dies twice); his army of zombies (villains, introduction for all, all die twice); the Nazis (villains)
Synopsis:
General Henchel faces the prospect of suicide because of his blunder along the German-Russian Front, but instead he makes a hasty departure by submarine to America. Arriving in the swamps of Louisiana, he decides to hide out in a mysterious cathedral, supposedly haunted, and is killed when he plays an organ, but is brought back as a zombie (like other former inhabitants of the edifice), leading his Army of the Dead out to kill Americans. The Angel discovers a zombie Monk at the cathedral and learns from him how to deal with the dreadful Army.
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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
1
3
0
1
1
2
3
7
5
4
5
2
6
5
0
4
7
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
57
Qualified
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
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
1
1
0
0
0
0
2
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
5
Total
0
1
3
1
1
2
3
3
7
5
4
7
2
6
5
0
4
7
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
62
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