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Marvel Mystery Comics #85 (1948) · The Collector

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Marvel Mystery Comics (1939)
#85

Marvel#85

Marvel Mystery Comics

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Marvel Mystery Comics #85

Murders from the Past / Blackbeard... Scourge of the Seas! / Final Reckoning (Chapter 10) / The Dummy Is No Dummy

Publisher: Marvel
Cover date: February 1948
On sale: Oct 28, 1947
Cover price: $0.10
Pages: 52

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Credits

Writer: Bill Everett
Pencillers: Syd Shores, Mike Sekowsky, Bill Everett, Ken Bald
Inkers: Bill Everett, Ken Bald, Christopher Rule
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Grand Comics Database issue 6514

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Cleopatra Vance, member of the Famous Names Club, asks the Torch for help, believing that Nathan Hale is going to be hanged. The Torches go to the address Vance provides and they find a body. Leaving the scene is the hired criminal, the Turtle. Next, Lincoln is shot by the Turtle; Cleopatra tells Torch that Julius Caesar must be the killer since she and he are the only two members left; the last surviving member is beneficiary of club investments. Torch suspects Hale of attempting to throw off suspicion and apprehends him and the Turtle when the latter tries to assassinate Caesar.

Bill Everett

Covers

Syd Shores, Vince Alascia

Editor

Stan Lee

Characters

Betty Dean
Blackbeard
Cleopatra Vance
Miss America
Namora
Rex Harr
Sub-Mariner
The Human Torch
The Turtle
Toro

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