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Amazing Comics #1

Marvel · Series began 1944 · Fall 1944

Dates

Cover date
Fall 1944
On sale
September 7, 1944
Pages
52

Editions and covers

Creators

pencils: Alex Schomburg, Mike Sekowsky, Bob Powell, Allen Bellman, Al Gabrieleinks: Alex Schomburg, Al Avison, Al Gabriele, Allen Bellman, Vince Alasciascript: H. H. Arnold

Stories

  • The Horror of the Murdering Magician · 20 pages

    The Young Allies stow away on a troop transport bound for India to fight the Japs. Once they arrive, they encounter an Indian magician Tehru, who uses mirrors to create illusions in order to sway Indians to fight for the Axis. The kids use their powers to sway the Indians, and Tehru is brought before the Japanese in disgrace. He begs for one more chance and plans to use his mirrors to give the illusion that the Japanese troops are not attacking from where they seem to be, however the kids doctor his mirrors so the illusion fails and the Japanese are defeated by the Allied troops. Tehru runs off into the jungle to escape and meets his doom at the bottom of a spiked Leopard pit trap.

  • The Mad Minute · 7 pages

    A crime boss gives the Whizzer a fake tip so that he will be ten miles away from two real crimes that will each be complete in only a minute.

  • Swastika Murder Case · 2 pages

    Detective Trapp investigates the murder of a man who was to testify against a suspected Nazi.

  • The Face, Master of Evil · 7 pages

    The Destroyer finds a dying intelligence officer who had infiltrated the Valley of Death and encountered "The Face". He enters the valley himself and discovers that The Face is manufacturing a flesh-consuming gas as a weapon against the allies.

  • Life Raft · 2 pages
  • The Voice of Doom · 7 pages

    The Voice of Doom interrupts radio programs announcing ill events that will befall certain people that night.

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