Issue | #6 |
Published | Fall 1942 |
Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
Pages | 68 |
Editing | Stan Lee |
Notes | Some info added by Craig Delich 7-24-08. |
Characters | Captain America; Bucky; Human Torch; Toro; Sub-Mariner; Villains: Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Hideki Tojo. |
Genre | superhero |
Letters | typ[eset |
Notes | Some info added by Craig Delich 7-24-08. |
Reprinted | In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners Comics (Marvel, 2005 series) #2 (2006). |
Characters | Human Torch; Toro; Destroyer; Vision; Sub-Mariner; Captain America; Bucky. |
Synopsis | Table of contents with illustrations of the heroes whose stories appear inside the issue. |
Genre | superhero |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Found on inside front cover. Sequence and all info added by Craig Delich 7-24-08. |
Reprinted | In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners Comics (Marvel, 2005 series) #2 (2006). |
Characters | The Human Torch [Jim Hammond]; Toro; cameo: Uncle Sam, Minute Man; Villains: Big Eyes, Joe Thomas. |
Synopsis | A lucky break on getting the address of one Joseph Thomas off a utility bill leads the Torch and Toro directly into a den counterfeiters of U.S. Savings Stamps! |
Genre | superhero |
Notes | Splash page gives feature as "The Minute Man and the Human Torch". Most info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 7-24-08. |
Reprinted | In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners Comics (Marvel, 2005 series) #2 (2006). |
Characters | Lolly; Snappy; Ding a Ling; Rusty; Toughy Tomcat |
Synopsis | Promotional illoed ad, including the cover, for Krazy Komics #2. |
Genre | humor; funny animals |
Pencils | ? (cover art), Lee King [as King] (signed, new art) |
Inks | ? (cover art), Lee King [as King] (signed, new art) |
Notes | Sequence and all info added by Craig Delich 7-24-08. |
Reprinted | in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners Comics (Marvel, 2005 series) #2 (2006) |
Characters | Destroyer [Keen Marlow]; Villains: Professor Schultz, Lubitch [I, D for both]; un-named Nazi Commandant; Stone Man. |
Synopsis | A Nazi sculptor and scientist create a new weapon against the Allies for Hitler: a giant man made of stone! |
Genre | superhero |
Notes | Synopsis and some info added by Craig Delich 7-24-08. |
Reprinted | In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners Comics (Marvel, 2005 series) #2 (2006). |
Characters | Human Torch; the Patriot; Sub-Mariner; Jimmy Jupiter; the Vision; the Angel; Terry Vance; the Patriot |
Synopsis | Illustrated ad for Marvel Comics. |
Genre | superhero |
Pencils | Lee King [as Lee] (signed) |
Inks | Lee King [as Lee] (signed) |
Notes | Sequence and all info added by Craig Delich 7-24-08. |
Reprinted | In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners Comics (Marvel, 2005 series) #2 (2006). |
Characters | Oswald Perkins; Mr. Styles; Villians: "The Boss" [Christopher Fitzgerald Wampus], Willy Wickerschnikle. |
Synopsis | When "The Boss" sells Willy a bunch of worthless gold stock in the Gleeful Gopher Mine, both are estatic.....that is until "The Boss" believes the stock is really worth something and attempts to buy it back. |
Genre | adventure |
Script | Mickey Spillane (signed) |
Pencils | ? [spot illo] |
Inks | ? [spot illo] |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Sequence information by Greg Theakston (April 1, 2006). Synopsis added by Craig Delich 7-24-08. Reprint note for Primal Spillane from Arthur Lortie, August 2008. |
Reprinted | In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners Comics (Marvel, 2005 series) #2 (2006); in Primal Spillane: Early Stories 1941-1942 (Gryphon Books, 2004 series) |
Characters | Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bucky [Bucky Barnes]; Villains: Baron Jujitso [I, D], Mock Mikado |
Synopsis | In the 19th Century, the Japanese Emperor's wife has two sons.....something that could lead to a civil war between the two later down the road. However, one, the Mock Mikado, decides to conquer the U.S. before his brother does [who is the leader of Japan], then conquer his brother's throne as well! |
Genre | superhero |
Pencils | Al Avison |
Notes | Some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 7-24-08. |
Reprinted | In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners Comics (Marvel, 2005 series) #2 (2006). |
Characters | Captain America |
Synopsis | Illustrated ad for Captain America Comics, as well as a plug to join Cap's Sentinels of Liberty. |
Genre | superhero |
Pencils | Lee King (signed) |
Inks | Lee King (signed) |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Sequence and all info added by Craig Delich 7-24-08. |
Reprinted | In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners Comics (Marcvel, 2005 series) #2 (2006). |
Characters | The Black Avenger [Jerry Carstairs][I]; V: Kurt Weidner [D]. |
Synopsis | Jerry is asked by the FBI to take the place of a member of a Nazi spy ring who looks just like him! |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Eddie Robbins (signed as Robin) |
Pencils | Eddie Robbins (signed as Robin) |
Inks | Eddie Robbins (signed as Robin) |
Notes | Writer, pencil, and ink credit update by Greg Theakston (April 1, 2006). Writer/artist revision by Craig Delich on 7-24-08 from Robin King? to Eddie Robbins [the Who's Who verifies Robbins as doing this strip]. Synopsis and some info added by Craig Delich 7-24-08. |
Reprinted | In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners Comics (Marvel, 2005 series) #2 (2006). |
Characters | Bucky; Toro; Tubby Tinkle; Percy Bartwell; Washington Vanderbilt Jefferson; Whitewash Jones; V: The Owl. |
Synopsis | Illustrated ad, with cover reprinted, for Young Allies Comics #6. |
Genre | superhero |
Pencils | Alex Schomburg ? (cover); Lee King; Biro |
Inks | Alex Schomburg ? (cover); Lee King; Biro |
Notes | Sequence and all info added by Craig Delich 7-24-08. |
Reprinted | In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners Comics (Marvel, 2005 series) #2 (2006). |
Characters | Sub-Mariner [Prince Namor]; J.J. Harris; John Feather-in-Hat; V: Gojo [I, D]. |
Synopsis | Namor, after finding a man scalped, tracks down a nefarious Japanese gang whose leader is tracking down and killing American spies in Japan, who are returning to the States with vital Japanese info hidden on parts of their bodies! |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Bill Everett? |
Pencils | Bill Everett |
Notes | Some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 7-24-08. |
Reprinted | In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners Comics (Marvel, 2005 series) #2 (2006). |
Synopsis | Illustrated ad for Terry Toons Comics #1 [cover displayed as well as new art]. |
Genre | funny animals |
Pencils | ? (cover), Lee King [as Lee] (signed) |
Inks | ? (cover), Lee King [as Lee] (signed) |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Found on the inside back cover. Sequence and all info added by Craig Delich 7-24-08. |
Reprinted | In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners Comics (Marvel, 2005 series) #2 (2006). |
Genre | adventure |
Script | Mickey Spillane (signed) |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Order of this sequence is not known. Its existence and reprint information are from the book "PRIMAL SPILLANE: THE EARLY STORIES, 1941-1942", (edited by Max Allan Collins and Lynn F. Myers, Jr., Gryphon Books, 2003), provided by Arthur Lortie, 6/29/2006. It does not appear in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners Comics #2. |
Reprinted | In Comix: A History of Comic Books in America (Bonanza, 1971 series) #nn; in Comix: A History of Comic Books in America (Outerbridge & Dienstfrey, 1971 series) #nn; in "PRIMAL SPILLANE: THE EARLY STORIES, 1941-1942", (edited by Max Allan Collins and Lynn F. Myers, Jr., Gryphon Books, 2003). |