Marvel Mystery Comics #27

Dates

Cover date

January 1942

On sale

November 17, 1941

In stores

November 21, 1941

Pages

68

Editions and covers

• Original edition

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Creators

Stories

• The Flaming Arrow Murders · 15 pages

  Torch and Toro must stop the criminal designs of The Saint, who, along with his gang, is out to steal the plans for a new super air tank that the Raleigh Corporation is building.

• The Fox's Smuggling Racket · 12 pages

  Namor hears from a dock worker (aka "brush man"), who handles fur cargoes shipped in from Alaska, that no more shipments are being received and that the furs are somehow being smuggled in. Sub-Mariner investigates and discovers that The Fox is putting the stolen furs in torpedo-like metal tubes with motors and fires them into an underground river that leads to the United States.

• A Business Meeting In Hell · 7 pages

  Satan demands that his sales manager quit falling down on the job and see to it that the only evil-free city in the United States, Arbor City, is turned into a hotbed of evil and misery. So he decides to send a special agent to Arbor City, in the guise of a local hero, to accomplish the deed.

• Quick Thinking, or, How Good a Detective Are You? · 2 pages

  Ed warned Old Tom that some notorious bank robbers and killers in Kenton were headed his way and to be on the alert. They arrived and held Tom prisoner, but he quickly turned the tables on the crooks. But how did the police know the crooks were in Tom’s house?

• Voodini's Last Laugh From the Grave · 7 pages

  The relatives of the late Professor Voodini gather at his mansion to listen to the reading of the will, whose contents lead to several murders and the re-appearance of the evil professor.

• Death To Spies! · 5 pages

  Suoka has appointed a Filipino bolo wielder to murder Lt. Curtis, but the Patriot interferes and prevents the crime, finally tracking down the Japanese secret agent behind the murder plot.

• Death Rings the Bell! · 9 pages

  The Angel investigates weird deaths associated with the ringing of the carillon belonging to the late millionaire, Jonathan Brown.

• Fighting for the Free French · 6 pages

  Arriving in French Equatorial Africa, Ka-Zar is captured by the Nazis and used as a decoy to sucker French ships into submarine range.

Characters

Reprinted in

Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics (2004), Golden Age of Marvel (1997), 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)