USA Comics #7 Values

Publisher: Marvel, 1943

About USA Comics #7

Origin and only appearance of Marvel Boy in this title. The Secret Stamp begins a run. The classic Captain America and Bucky / Rising Sun war cover is by Alex Schomburg. Story art is by Basil Wolverton and Bob Oksner.

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COVER DETAILS

Characters: Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bucky [Bucky Barnes]; the Japanese

Pencils: Alex Schomburg [as Schomburg] (signed)

Inks: Alex Schomburg [as Schomburg] (signed)

Notes: Art previously credited to Al Avison ? The aircraft carrier depicted is named "Haruna Maru" which was the name of an Imperial Japanese Navy battleship.

STORY DETAILS

(9 Stories)

Title: The Case of the Flying Submarine!

Characters: Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bucky [Bucky Barnes]; Sgt. Michael Duffy; Lt. Roland; Mark Manners (inventor, death); Jane Manners (Mark's daughter); The Eraser (villain); Sparks (villain, radio operator); Fritz (circus fire-eater); Hans (villain, pilot)

Synopsis: Cap and Bucky must go up against the Eraser, a dreaded rubberman circus freak turned spy, who has set his sights on stealing the prototype model of a new flying submarine.

Pages: 20.000

Pencils: Syd Shores; Mike Sekowsky; Ernie Hart

Inks: George Klein; ?

Notes: Art credits per Michale J. Vassallo and the Masterworks edition.

Title: Trouble Wholesale

Characters: Captain Daring [Lee Bradford]; Sky Sharks; Zeke Mallon; Colonel Welling; Valerie Welling (Colonel's daughter); Lieutenant Raeger (British spy, death); Marshal von Hapz (villain); the Nazis (villains)

Pages: 9.000

Pencils: Alex Schomburg (signed)

Inks: Alex Schomburg (signed)

Notes: This feature is a name change for "G-Man Don Gorman" from Daring Mystery Comics #4 (May 1940). Its full title is Captain Daring and His Sky-Sharks.

Title: Origin of Marvel Boy

Characters: Marvel Boy [Martin Burns]; Miss Prim (school teacher); Hercules; von Blubber (villain); the Nazis (villains)

Synopsis: Martin is visiting a museum with members of his class, when he is involved in an accident, in which Martin suffers a deep cut which is mixed with an extract of the bllod of Hercules, giving him super powers.

Pages: 7.000

Pencils: Bob Oksner

Notes: Last seen in Daring Mystery Comics #6, and this is his last appearance even though the blurb at the end of the story says he has another adventure in the next issue. Unknown script and inks per Michael J. Vassallo per the Masterworks edition. Previous indexer credited Oksner on script and inks.

Title: I Hate Women

Characters: Lester Looseleaf (Morning Herald newspaper reporter); Cuthbert Cutter (managing editor of Morning Herald); Willie (elevator operator)

Synopsis: After being fired from his job as a reporter, Lester decides to write a book, which pans women. Unfortunately for him, women hate women, and all the gals loved his book, and his former editor on the paper bought the rights to the book and serialized it in the newspaper.

Pages: 2.000

Letters: typeset

Title: Meet Disk-Eyes the Detective

Characters: Disk-Eyes the Detective; T. Adenoid Cashkisser (Slippery River Bank President); Spider McStrangle (villain)

Synopsis: Disk-Eyes must halt the attempts by Spider McStrangle and his boys to commit more robberies to help finance bombs that will be used to blow up machinery.

Pages: 5.000

Script: Basil Wolverton (signed)

Pencils: Basil Wolverton (signed)

Inks: Basil Wolverton (signed)

Letters: Basil Wolverton ?

Notes: The blurb at the end of the story indicates Disk-Eyes returns in the next issue, but he doesn't.

Title: The Case of the Up-To-the-Minute Men!

Characters: The Secret Stamp [Roddy Colt]; Freddy Franklin; un-named boss (villain); Griffin (villain, bond cashier)

Synopsis: Roddy has to pull off a modern Paul Revere scenario in order to track down a hijacked armored car containing more than $1 million in war bond sales.

Pages: 7.000

Script: Stan Lee ?; Bob Oksner ?

Pencils: Bob Oksner

Notes: Pencil credit from the Masterworks edition. Writer credits added by Craig Delich 2013-2-11. The Who's Who states that Stan Lee and Bob Oksner both wrote this strip in 1943, so it could be either one.

Characters: Private Jeep Jones; un-named U.S. Army General; Otto (villain, Nazi spy); Spike (villain, Nazi spy)

Synopsis: Jeep draws up plans for a new invention that he calls the "Super-Duper Tank", which the General says looks like a meat grinder on wheels.

Pages: 5.000

Pencils: Chic Stone (signed)

Inks: Chic Stone (signed)

Title: The Laughing Death Patrol!

Characters: Lt. Jap Buster Johnson; Lt. David Nichols (image); the Japanese (villains, some die)

Synopsis: Lt. Johnson must track down the source of a mysterious green gas that drives American pilots crazy.

Pages: 9.000

Script: Mickey Spillane ?

Pencils: Dennis Neville

Inks: Dennis Neville

Notes: Writer credit suggested by textual analysis by Lou Mougin.

Title: Wake Up Americans!

Characters: Captain America [Steve Rogers]

Synopsis: Illustrated PSA for United States Savings Bond War Stamps.

Pages: 1.000

Script: Martin Goodman (signed)

Pencils: Syd Shores ?

Inks: Syd Shores ?

Notes: Sequence and writer credit added by Craig Delich 2012-4-22.

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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	4	0	2	1	2	1	1	1	1	0	1	4	1	1	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	24
Qualified	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3
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	2	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	2	2	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	12
Total	6	0	2	1	2	4	1	1	3	2	4	4	2	1	4	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	39

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