Dates
- Cover date
- July 1940 (August 1940)
- On sale
- July 4, 1940
- Pages
- 68
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- The Trustees of Hate · 10 pages
The Blue Blaze, who is now described as returning to the grave between adventures, takes on an organization that's using a hate ray to goad two neighboring countries to war.
- Earthquake · 7 pages
Hercules fights a mad scientist who wants to rule the world or smash it to bits with his monster earth-shaking machine. The scientist captures Hercules and tries to mentally enslave him, but Hercules is too strong.
- Origin of the Thin Man · Thin Man · 8 pages
Bruce Dickson stumbles on a utopia in the Himalayas and its people welcome him, granting him the power they all have to become exceedingly thin through surgery with their electric rays. He is shown their science and their peaceful communication with the Martians, but convinces them to let him return to the outside world to fight crime. The Elder's daughter, Olalla, goes with him and on their first adventure they put a stop to a protection racket.
- The Teutonian Agents · 6 pages
The Williams brothers take Flexo to Teutonia to retrieve a stolen explosives formula.
- Introducing the Black Widow · 7 pages
Spirit medium Claire Voyant, momentarily influenced by Satan, curses a family after they doubt her skills. When the mother and daughter of the family die, the son blames Claire and kills her. Satan claims her soul and transforms her into the Black Widow. After giving her a tour of Hell, he allows her to go back to earth and avenge herself by killing her own murderer. Satan then tells the Black Widow that her role will be to collect the souls of evil men on earth at his direction.
- Suicide Mystery · 6 pages
The Invisible Man discovers a murder behind an apparent suicide.
- Devil-God · 2 pages
Karl and Tom are on a journey in deepest Africa to find the natives' devil-god, and discover that a colossal dinosaur is the devil-god which has the natives living in fear.
- The Train Wreck · Merzah the Mystic · 8 pages
After a train is wrecked by sabotage, Merzah, his assistant Diana and his driver Jose take down the spy/sabotage organization which is trying to steal plans for an unsinkable lifeboat.
- The Jewelry Store Robbers · 9 pages
Dynamic Man investigates jewelry store robberies in which only gold was stolen. He discovers a scientist who is using a "magnet" that affects only gold to commit crimes. The scientist uses his new dirigible with this magnet to steal more gold, and Dynamic Man must chase him across the Atlantic Ocean.
Reprinted in
Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Mystic Comics (2011), Women of Marvel: Celebrating Seven Decades Magazine (2010), Women of Marvel: Celebrating Seven Decades Omnibus (2010), Women of Marvel: Celebrating Seven Decades (2010), Marvel Firsts: WWII Super Heroes (2013), Marvel Tales: Black Widow (2019)