Marvel Mystery Comics #28

Dates

Cover date

February 1942

On sale

December 16, 1941

Pages

68

Editions and covers

• Original edition

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Creators

Stories

• The Poison Pill Suicides · 15 pages

  Torch and Toro are invited to lead the Coney Island Mardi Gras pageant, but a henchman of a gunrunner named Izan succeeds in interrupting the event with a bomb before committing suicide with a poison pill rather than facing his boss's judgment to be drowned for failure. Izan captures Torch and Toro with gas and places them into glass coffin tubes which he plans to dump into the sea. Discovering a leak in the tube, the Torch flames on and superheats the glass so that it shatters when it hits the water. He frees Toro and they capture Izan.

• The Flying Dutchman · 12 pages

  Intrigued by four ship sinkings by a mysterious 18th-century ghost ship, Namor figures that the tremendous loss of gold shipments carried aboard those ships must be the work of a 20th-century pirate who has bolted the ghost ship to a submarine. Walking into a trap, Namor is rescued by the sister of Policewoman Betty Dean, who, along with her husband, are being coerced into helping the Falcon.

• Untitled · 7 pages

  The Vision comes to Earth to battle the "Mad Man of Science", Dr. Korbeau, who has discovered the secret of man's soul and how to remove it. Korbeau removes the souls of seven of his scientific competitors, but the Vision takes the scientists to the spirit world to reclaim their souls before a showdown with the evil doctor.

• The Sea of Grassy Death · 1.67 pages

  Two sailors run into a storm and find themselves marooned in the Sargasso Sea, facing yet a greater terror that would prove dangerous to Allied shipping.

• The Green-Faced Man · 6 pages

  The celebrated trial of the Green-Faced Man is interrupted when the prisoner's gang frees him with an attack of gas. However, the Patriot tracks him down to dispense well-earned justice.

• The Case of the Deadly Letters · 7 pages

  Terry and Deadline suspect that Hollywood director Aubrey de Woode did not commit suicide, but was murdered, and they suspect the dead man's nephew, even though the police have ruled the young man out as a suspect.

• Strange Adventures in the Land of Nowhere · 6 pages

  Jimmy is taken up in an airplane but forgets to fasten his safety belt, and falls out of the plane, landing on a soft cloud. He discovers he is in the Land of Nowhere and the only way back to Earth is to locate the Mountain of Wunt.

• The Horror of the Haunted Cathedral · 8 pages

  General Henchel faces the prospect of suicide because of his blunder along the German-Russian Front, but instead he makes a hasty departure by submarine to America. Arriving in the swamps of Louisiana, he decides to hide out in a mysterious cathedral, supposedly haunted, and is killed when he plays an organ, but is brought back as a zombie (like other former inhabitants of the edifice), leading his Army of the Dead out to kill Americans. The Angel discovers a zombie Monk at the cathedral and learns from him how to deal with the dreadful Army.

Characters

Reprinted in

Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics (2004), Marvel Firsts: WWII Super Heroes (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)