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Issue Details

Issue	#31
Published	May 1942
Cover Price	0.10 USD
Pages	68
Editing	Stan Lee

Cover Details

Genre	superhero
Pencils	Al Gabriele
Inks	Al Gabriele

12 page Human Torch story "Scuttle the Japs"

Characters	V: Admiral Nodope (I, D), Fooey (I), Japanese (many D)
Synopsis	After the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese send a carrier with planes to bomb San Francisco. Torch and Toro destroy all the planes but one and trail it back to the carrier. Toro wants to sink the carrier, but Torch has them stowaway aboard Admiral Nodope's ship so that they can free the marines who have been taken prisoner back at port. When they arrive, Torch and Toro scuttle the carrier and Nodope reports to Fooey, his superior. Fooey demands that Nodope stop the escaping marines and Torch melts the American steel over the Japanese that they bought before the war. Torch burns the snipers alive in their perches and the marines board a boat for home. As they go, Torch leaves a flaming 'V' in the sky above Japan.
Genre	superhero
Script	Carl Burgos
Pencils	Carl Burgos
Inks	Carl Burgos

12 page Sub-Mariner story "The Case of the Jilted Japs, or, They Had a Date At San Diego"

Characters	V: The Japanese (many D)
Synopsis	takes place Dec. 11-14, 1941
Genre	superhero
Script	Bill Everett
Pencils	Bill Everett
Inks	Bill Everett

7 page Vision story "The Plague of the Jelly Men"

Characters	V: The "Jelly Men" (I, D; a mass of living protoplasm), the Japanese (many D)
Genre	superhero
Script	Stan Lee?
Pencils	Vince Alascia?
Inks	David Walters?

2 page text story "Killer's Return"

Script	Mickey Spillane
Letters	typeset
Notes	Reprint note from Arthur Lortie, August 2008.
Reprinted	in Primal Spillane: Early Stories 1941-1942 (Gryphon Books, 2004 series)

6 page Patriot story "The Insects of Sudden Death"

Characters	V: Otto (I, D), the Nazis
Genre	superhero
Pencils	Al Fagaly
Inks	Al Fagaly

7 page Terry Vance story "The Mystery of the Murdered Ghost"

Characters	I: The Ghost Rider (D); V: Roney (I, D); GS: Deadline Dawson
Genre	detective
Script	Ray Gill
Pencils	Bob Oksner
Inks	Bob Oksner

7 page Jimmy Jupiter story "In The Land of the Fun People"

Characters	I: The Candy Men; V: The Gloomy Gusses
Genre	children; fantasy
Script	Ed Robbins
Pencils	Ed Robbins
Inks	Ed Robbins

10 page Angel story "Cargo of Death"

Characters	V: Gondor (I)
Genre	superhero
Pencils	Al Fagaly
Inks	Al Fagaly