Dates
- Cover date
- November 1941
- On sale
- September 18, 1941
- Pages
- 68
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- The King Crime Syndicate · 15 pages
A numbers gangster decides to move into healthcare by kidnapping pharmacists and forcing them to create black market drugs. He shoots one of them at the hospital when he protests and he throws another into a vat of acid in his hideout chemical lab when the man refuses to produce drugs that are dangerous to people. Torch and Toro set off an explosion which kills the gangster.
- The Little People · 12 pages
Namor is called in to investigate strange happenings at the seashore, and he discovers a race of little people and a Queen Jarna from the planet Venus, who came to Earth in a rocket ship as a springboard to an invasion.
- Untitled · 5 pages
Casey gets a hot tip that the Patriot has been shot by Huss and heads toward the Garrett home, when he is captured and walled-in alive to die.
- Marvel Get-Together · 2 pages
The heroes get together for their monthly meeting to compare notes and to adopt a resolution that the heroes would do all in their power to preserve the sacred principles and ideals of American democracy, and to crush the fiendish efforts of the underworld for all time.
- The Forest Fire Saboteur · 7 pages
Terry meets and defeats a Nazi arsonist, who has been destroying forested areas owned by Bull Dawson.
- The Vengeance of Saba · 6 pages
Ka-Zar and Saba escape the evil clutches of Ali Hamud and Captain Olendorff, who are attempting to use their jungle fortress as a secret air and supply base for the Nazis attacking the British in South Africa. Saba lights the fuse that destroys the base and everyone inside, but Ka-Zar is caught in the explosiion and seriously hurt or killed.
- The Book of Sorcery · 7 pages
The Vision must face a mad professor who believes that the laws of nature are meant to be broken and that man must take the power into his own hands to control all the elements. Zagnar does, with horrific results!
- The Python and the Prison Riot · 9 pages
The Angel comes to see the Python pay for his crimes in the electric chair, but the wiley villain seizes the warden, and, with the help of the other inmates, attempts to break through lines of U.S. servicemen sent to quell the riot.
Characters
Reprinted in
Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics (2004), Marvel Super-Heroes (1967), Golden Age of Marvel (1997), Timely's Greatest: The Golden Age Human Torch by Carl Burgos Omnibus (2019), Timely's Greatest: The Golden Age Simon & Kirby Omnibus (2019), Timely's Greatest: The Golden Age Sub-Mariner by Bill Everett - The Pre-War Years Omnibus (2019)