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Publisher: Marvel

Title: Marvel Mystery Comics
Issue: 14
Page Count: 68
Publish Date: December 1940
Volume: 1
Contributors: Editor: Joe Simon

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Marvel Mystery Comics #14
Owner: Paratrooper

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Story Title: "Could the Sub-Mariner hold off the Nazi hordes till help arrived?" [sic] - cover
Features:The Sub-Mariner
Pages:1
Pencils:Alex Schomburg
Inks:Alex Schomburg
Genre:superhero
Characters:The Sub-Mariner [Prince Namor]; the Human Torch [Jim Hammond] (inset); The Angel [Tom Halloway] (inset); The Nazis


Story Title: Hey Fellas! Look at This! - advertisement
Features:The Human Torch
Pages:1
Pencils:Alex Schomburg; ? (small illustrations)
Inks:Alex Schomburg; ? (small illustrations)
Letters:typeset
Genre:superhero
Characters:The Human Torch [Jim Hammond]; Toro; The Sub-Mariner [Prince Namor]
Synopsis:Promotional, illustrated ad for The Human Torch #2 (#1), cover reproduced with art by Schomburg. There are illustations of Torch and Namor, art unknown (probably Burgos and Everett).


Story Title: The Cult of Fire-Men - comic story
Features:The Human Torch
Pages:12
Pencils:Carl Burgos [as Burgos] (signed)
Inks:Carl Burgos [as Burgos] (signed)
Genre:superhero
Characters:The Human Torch [Jim Hammond]; Pete (policeman); Ronald (introduction, death); Kalif (villain, introduction); Cult of Fire-Men (villains, introduction, one dies); Culfra (villain, introduction); a fire-monster (villain, introduction, death)
Synopsis:The Torch has a real dilemma: he has to track down members of the Fire Cult who have committed a murder, but the man murdered was intending to destroy the world.


Story Title: Blitzing the U-Boat Base - comic story
Features:Prince Namor, The Sub-Mariner
Pages:10
Pencils:Bill Everett (signed)
Inks:Bill Everett (signed)
Letters:Bill Everett
Genre:superhero
Characters:The Sub-Mariner [Prince Namor]; Dorma; un-named Nazi lieutenant (villain); the Nazis (villains)
Synopsis:After Namor successfully routs invading Nazi paratroopers on an island Dorma and he arrived on for a rest, his questioning of the Nazi lieutenant reveals that the Axis Powers have built a secret submarine base on a little-known island 20 miles from the coast of Florida. He and Dorma for that base to tackle the Nazi horde.


Story Title: The Synthetic Diamonds - comic story
Features:The Angel
Pages:9
Pencils:Paul Gustavson (signed)
Inks:Paul Gustavson (signed)
Letters:Paul Gustavson
Genre:superhero
Characters:The Angel [Tom Halloway]; Professor Hanley (villain, introduction); Hanson (villain)
Synopsis:The Angel investigates a mine operator that has a lot of equipment for handling radium on his hands, equipment that is being used to create synthetic diamonds.


Story Title: Redskins Bite Cinders - text story
Pages:2
Pencils:Harry Ramsey [as H. R.] (signed)
Inks:Harry Ramsey [as H. R.] (signed)
Letters:typeset
Genre:adventure; western-frontier
Characters:Tommy Bryan; Steve Hanson; Barnes; Red; the Indians (villains)
Synopsis:A group of railroad men use old engine 751 to protect a town from invading Indians.


Story Title: The Werewolf Strikes - comic story
Features:The Vision
Pages:7
Pencils:Jack Kirby
Inks:Jack Kirby
Letters:Jack Kirby
Genre:superhero
Characters:The Vision [Aarkus]; Dr. Martin Keller (introduction, death); un-named butler of Sanders; Llhupa (villain, introduction, a werewolf, death); Gordon Sanders [aka George Brown] (villain, introduction, a werewolf, death)
Synopsis:The Vision must battle two werewolves, one, in reality Gordon Sanders, a member of the ill-fated Medwick Expedition that discovered the lost Tibetan City of Demons, where he was bitten by such a werewolf.


Story Title: The Kidnapping of Diana Dunn - comic story
Features:The School Boy Sleuth Terry Vance
Pages:7
Pencils:Bob Oksner [as Robert Oksner] (signed)
Inks:Bob Oksner [as Robert Oksner] (signed)
Genre:detective-mystery
Characters:Terry Vance; Dr. Watson (a monkey); Deadline Dawson (newspaperman); Diana Dunn (introduction); Chuck (villain, introduction); un-named members of Chuck's gang (villains, introduction)
Synopsis:Deadline takes Terry along when he interviews actress Diana Dunn, but a staged "movie scene" turns out to be a real kidnapping.


Story Title: Attack of the Subterraneans - comic story
Features:Electro, the Marvel of the Age
Pages:8
Pencils:Steve Dahlman (signed)
Inks:Steve Dahlman (signed)
Genre:adventure
Characters:Electro; Professor Philo Zog; The Onees (villains, introduction for all, all die); King of the Onees (villain, introduction, death)
Synopsis:The destruction of the Fairbanks Iron Works leads Electro into the bowels of the earth to confront the Onees, who take control of the robot and force Professor Zog to come to his rescue.


Story Title: Escape from New York - comic story
Features:Adventures of Ka-Zar the Great
Pages:9
Pencils:Ben Thompson
Inks:Ben Thompson
Genre:jungle
Characters:Ka-Zar [David Rand]; Zar (a lion); Ruth Wilson; Dr. Wilson; the Nazis (villains)
Synopsis:Ka-Zar succeeds in getting Zar out of the zoo he is imprisoned in and hides out on a British boat heading toward Africa. Unfortunately, the boat is torpedoed by an enemy submarine.


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