The Human Torch #28 The Promise Collection Pedigree (Timely, 1947) CGC NM- 9.2 White pages....

Auction amount: $7,800.00

Sold: Sep 12, 2021

The Human Torch #28 Values

Publisher: Marvel, 1947

About The Human Torch #28

Sub-Mariner story. Mike Sekowsky cover. Bill Everett art.

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COVER DETAILS

Characters: Human Torch; Toro

Pencils: Syd Shores

Inks: Al Avison ?

STORY DETAILS

(4 Stories)

Title: The Twins Who Weren't

Characters: Human Torch; Toro; Joyce Clayton; Elaine Clayton; Ted; John; Lt. Walsh

Synopsis: Identical twins are the focus of this murder mystery. One of them is committed to an asylum after a broke off love affair convinces her that she is in love with Lancelot from Arthurian legend. The murderer plots to have her sprung from the asylum and then blamed for the killings so that he gets the girl's money.

Pages: 12.000

Pencils: Carl Burgos ?

Notes: Possible Burgos pencils per Nick Caputo. Previously indexer credited Jimmy Thompson but after an exhaustive study of Thompson's work for Timely we can definitely say this is not Thompson. Cover story.

Title: Case of the Bends!

Characters: Sub-Mariner [Namor]; Namora; Dr. D. Mencha (villain, introduction); Mencha’s men [“Muggsie” Marvin; Michael; Simon (aid)]

Synopsis: While strolling the waterfront, Namor witnesses a girl drop dead. He diagnoses the unlikely cause as the bends and decides to investigate a nearby river dredge that he finds suspicious. There, he discovers that Dr. D. Mencha is experimenting on young girls, inflicting them with decompression sickness. Namor takes a quick trip to Betty Dean’s apartment to enlist the aid of Namora, whom he uses as bait to catch the demented scientist in the act. The plan works and with the evidence they need, the cousins round up the professor and his men for the harbor police.

Pages: 12.000

Script: Bill Everett

Pencils: Bill Everett

Inks: Bill Everett

Letters: Bill Everett

Notes: Namor remarks that he hasn’t seen “Muggsie” Marvin since 1939.

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CGC Census Report*

Grade	NG	PG	CVR	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	1	1	1	1	1	2	0	4	3	7	2	1	3	4	2	1	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	39
Qualified	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
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	0	0	0
CGCxJSA	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	0	0	0
Restored	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Total	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	1	1	2	0	5	3	7	2	1	5	4	2	1	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	42

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