Dates
- Cover date
- March 1941
- On sale
- December 15, 1940
- In stores
- January 15, 1941
- Pages
- 68
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- The Origin of the Black Marvel · 12 pages
The Black Marvel stops a group of criminals who have sabotaged the power plant to provide cover to steal weapons to set themselves up as the local criminal power. In the middle of this story, we see the Black Marvel's origin as a white man who successfully completes the physical trials to take over the position of the dying chief of the Blackfeet tribe after all of the tribe's braves had failed.
- The Tempest · Adventures of Super-Slave · 8 pages
Cappy (an elderly fisherman) and his daughter Jane are shipwrecked on an island. Cappy scratches an old bracelet he finds on the beach, releasing the Super-Slave who must now do his bidding. Cappy has him rescue Jane, and later needs Super-Slave's services again after they stumble onto a criminal organization.
- The Discovery in the Volcano · Sub-Earth Man · 10 pages
Geologist Bob Roland and his fiancée Carol encounter the giant Sub-Earth Man and his Flame Men beneath a volcano. The Sub-Earth Man ruled the Earth before its crust cooled, and he seeks to cause such massive eruptions that the Earth's surface will be suitable for his rule again. Bob offers to tell him where a city is for him to attack, but tricks him into causing an eruption under the ocean. Bob and Carol escape, but the Sub-Earth Man is still a threat.
- Introducing the Terror · 7 pages
After witnessing an amazing transformation in his dog, brought on by chemicals, Dr. Storm extracts a serum to grant those powers of fearlessness and a skull-like appearance to a human being. When a man loses control of his car and winds up amnesiac on the doctor's doorstep, Dr. Storm subjects hi to the serum. When gangsters arrive to force Dr. Storm to help them, the stranger wakes up and assumes the ghastly visage of the Terror, killing the thugs. Dr. Storm dies from his wounds, but the Terror vows to continue his fight against crime.
- The Legend of the Blackfeet · 2 pages
An Indian brave of the Blackfeet tribe with black paint on his face drives off a Comanche raiding party, saving a wagon train including Malcolm Lyons and his family. Malcolm dubs him a Black Marvel.
- Garvey Lang · 8 pages
Satan asks the Black Widow to collect the soul of train robber Garvey Lang. She stirs up discontent within his gang, causing the deaths of several of them. Finally, the Black Widow delivers her kiss of death to Lang at a costume ball he threw to celebrate his ill-gotten gains.
- The Poisoned Children · Moon-Man · 8 pages
The Moon-Man goes after a racketeer who bought tainted meat for an orphanage so he could pocket most of the money.
- The Story of Mark Todd · 9 pages
Mark Todd is on a passenger liner in the Atlantic Ocean when it is attacked by a sub firing torpedoes. To the astonishment of his fellow passengers, he leaps into the water and deflects the torpedo, changing into the Blazing Skull once he is out of the ship's sight. Returning to the ship he finds a cable summoning him to Berlin. His contact in Berlin has located the enemy's secret weapon. The Skull destroys the weapon but is captured. The leader orders him executed, but the Blazing Skull escapes.
Publisher’s description
Tales from the Golden Age of Marvel Comics! The Black Marvel recounts how he came into his costumed identity, centered around his mythic origin with the Blackfeet tribe of the American West!
Reprinted in
Marvel Firsts: WWII Super Heroes (2013), Marvel Super-Heroes (1967)