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Marvel Mystery Comics #30 (1942) · The Collector

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Marvel Mystery Comics (1939)
#30

Marvel#30

Marvel Mystery Comics

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Marvel Mystery Comics #30

March of the Metal Mobsters / Reprisal Revenge / The Mystery of the Flying Corpses / The Mystery of the Pharaoh's Eye / The House of Slaughter

Publisher: Marvel
Cover date: April 1942
On sale: Feb 18, 1942
Cover price: $0.10
Pages: 68

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Printing not stated · $0.10
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Credits

Writers: Carl Burgos, Bill Everett, Ray Gill, Eddie Robbins
Pencillers: Carl Burgos, Bill Everett, Syd Shores, Al Fagaly, Eddie Robbins
Inkers: Carl Burgos, Bill Everett, George Klein, Al Fagaly, Eddie Robbins

Sources

Grand Comics Database issue 2126

Catalog data from the Grand Comics Database is licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 and was normalized by The Collector. Cover images belong to their publishers.

1st appearance of Mary Orchid
1st appearance of Leslie Garden
1st appearance of the Little People

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A woman is worried when her fiance disappears so she asks Torch and Toro for help. She tells him that he has developed a plastic metal that may have made him a target for abductors. Torch and Toro encounter men clad in suits made of the stuff and have difficulty subduing them. The woman's fiance turns out to be in one of the suits, but Torch suspects he has been coerced into his actions when he sees welts upon his back. The true villain reveals himself and takes the woman as a hostage to escape. Toro sneaks around behind him and captures him.

Letterer

Bill Everett

Cover

Al Gabriele

Editors

Funnies, Inc., Lloyd Jacquet

Characters

Leslie Garden· 1st appearance
Mary Orchid· 1st appearance
the Little People· 1st appearance
"Deadline" Dawson
[The Metal Mobsters [Stephen Cole
Casey
Dr. Strasser
Dr. Watson
Human Torch
Jimmy Jupiter
Mary
Nazis
others]
Patriot
Powers' secretary
Princess Fen
Riesel
Ruffy Rabbit
Sub-Mariner
Terry Vance
The Angel
The Crank
the Gnomes
The Wump-Jump
Toro
Vision

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