Issue Details

Issue	#37
Published	November 1942
Cover Price	0.10 USD
Pages	68
Editing	Vince Fago?

Cover Details

Genre	superhero
Pencils	Syd Shores
Inks	Syd Shores

12 page Human Torch story "The Fingerprints of Doom"

Characters	Stumpy (Villain; Intro)
Synopsis	Ex-convicts with a grudge for the city officials whom they blame for their incarceration hatch a plot for revenge. They frame an ex-governor for kidnapping and they also frame a bank president of robbing his own vault by getting the intended victim to handle something which they make fake sets of fingerprints off and leave at crime scenes. They are planning to frame the mayor when Torch and Toro figure out the crooks behind the scheme and apprehend them.
Genre	superhero
Pencils	Harry Sahle
Inks	Harry Sahle

12 page Sub-Mariner story "The Copper Plague"

Characters	Princess Fen; Adolf Hitler (Villain); Captain Kornstalk (Villain; Intro; Death)
Synopsis	Namor gets a head wound in this story.
Genre	superhero
Pencils	Carl Pfeufer
Inks	Carl Pfeufer

7 page Jimmy Jupiter story "His Halloween Adventure"

Characters	Ghosts (Intro); Evil spirits (Villain; Intro)
Genre	children; fantasy
Script	Ed Robbins
Pencils	Ed Robbins
Inks	Ed Robbins

2 page text story "Scram, Bugs!"

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 Patriot Returns the Dough to the USO"

Genre	superhero
Pencils	Al Fagaly
Inks	Al Fagaly

7 page Vision story "Dead-End Dynamite"

Characters	Joe Marone (Villain; Intro); Toughie (Villain; Intro); other crooks
Genre	superhero
Pencils	Syd Shores

7 page Terry Vance story "The Case of the Invisible Clue"

Characters	Deadline Dawson; Lana Love (Intro)
Genre	detective
Script	Ray Gill?
Pencils	Bob Oksner
Inks	Bob Oksner

10 page Angel story "The Case of Marvello the Mystic"

Characters	Marvello (Villain; Intro)
Genre	superhero
Script	Roy Garn ?
Pencils	Gustav Schrotter
Inks	Gustav Schrotter