Dates
- Cover date
- Winter 1941-42
- On sale
- December 27, 1941
- Pages
- 68
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- The Case of the Black Dragon Society · 12 pages
After the mysterious suicide of a agent of the Black Dragon Society, who has just killed the owner of many oil wells, the Torch and Toro head east to see the owner of one of those wells, discovering the Japanese plan to blow up its pipeline.
- The Canvas of Doom! · 12 pages
Cap and Bucky come face to face with a lunatic artist, who paints portraits of his victims in the act or throes of death, then invites them to view the canvas, which hypnotizes them into doing away with themselves.
- Terror Prison · 12 pages
The Whizzer goes undercover in a prison where riots, fighting and murder has occurred in order to gain inside information. But he is unaware that the appearance of a mysterious criminal called "The Black" is somehow tied to the prison's Warden!
- Jungle Drums · 1.75 pages
Greg faces a threat from Carson Wolf, a notorious trader who has been trying to pressure the friendly and peaceful Senu tribe to sell him ivory at very low prices.
- The Ship of Horrors · 12 pages
Namor must deal with a group of cut-throat mutineers, led by Daglio, who threatens the life of a ship's owner and his daughter if he refuses to turn over a secret chart, which indicates the location of where a fabulously wealthy treasure ship sank.
- The Secret Tunnel of Death! · 12 pages
The Destroyer sets out to stop the Nazis, led by Doctor Dragon, from completing an undersea tunnel to England that will expedite the German invasion.
Characters
Reprinted in
Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners Comics (2005), USA Comics 70th Anniversary Special (2009), Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners Comics (2013), Timely's Greatest: The Golden Age Human Torch by Carl Burgos Omnibus (2019), Timely's Greatest: The Golden Age Sub-Mariner by Bill Everett - The Pre-War Years Omnibus (2019)