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All-Winners Comics #5

Marvel · Series began 1941 · Summer 1942

Dates

Cover date
Summer 1942
On sale
June 17, 1942
Pages
68

Editions and covers

Creators

pencils: Carl Burgos, Red Holmdale, Lou Paige, Ernie Hart, John Forte, Bill Kinginks: Edd Ashe, Red Holmdale, Lou Paige, Ernie Hart, John Forte, Bill Kingscript: Lou Paige, Mickey Spillane, Henry Morgenthal Jr., Keith Clark, Stan Leeletters: Lou Paige

Stories

  • Untitled · 12 pages

    Torch and Toro discover that the Nazis are operating out of a steamship anchored at a Coney Island pier. The Nazis intend to deliver a bomb (along with needed tanks of oxygen) to a hospital in order to kill thousands.

  • The Vampire Strikes! · 12 pages

    Cap and Bucky must face the threat created by the world's greatest master of occult medicine, Dr. Togu, who has forsaken the dropping of disease bombs on the Chinese people to inflict yet a new terror upon America: a vampire!

  • Speed on the Rampage · 7 pages

    Whizzer must tackle a crooked prison warden who has formed "A League of Petty Crimes" which allows prisoners to "escape" from prison, commit crimes, then return with the loot, having an alibi no one can prove untrue.

  • The Man in the Moon · 2 pages

    On December 31, 1941.....New Year's Eve, Bruce Henderson was in the jungles of Brazil and comes upon a rocket ship, and decides to use it to fly to the Moon. When he returns, no one believes him, until........they discovered, as Henderson told them they would, the large, mile-long letters "U S A" on the Moon's surface that he had made while he was there, and which they could now see using a new improved telescope!

  • The Hermit's Island of Glittering Gold! · 12 pages

    After up-ending a boatload of Nazis into the drink, Namor lands on an isle, only to discover it is covered with gold. However, he must not only battle the Nazis, who become shipwrecked there, but the strange hermit who resides there, believing all these visitors are there to steal the gold.

  • The Demon's Deadly Secret! · 12 pages

    In order to save the lives of several Americans the Nazis are planning to execute, the Destroyer assumes the alias of writer Louis Kramer to infiltrate the enemy camp and achieve his aims.

Characters

Steve RogersCaptain AmericaNamorSub-MarinerBucky BarnesJim HammondHuman TorchBuckyThomas RaymondToro

Reprinted in

Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners Comics (2005), Comix: A History of Comic Books in America (1971), Comix: A History of Comic Books in America (1971), Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners Comics (2013)

Run and key data from the Grand Comics Database (comics.org), CC BY-SA 4.0.

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