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ISSUE SUMMARY

Publisher: Marvel
Title: Marvel Mystery Comics
Page Count: 68
Genre: Adventure, Detective-mystery, Jungle, Superhero, Western-frontier
Era: Golden
Cover Price: 0.10 USD
Cover Date: August 1940
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Country: United States
Torch must battle a gas syndicate who tries to raise the price of gasoline, and bombs any gas station refusing to go along.; Because of Namor's seemingly inability to handle the Torch, he is suspended from all active service. Meanwhile, a group of hardened ice field seamen, led by Luther Robinson, seek out the Sub-Mariner to destroy him.; The Angel must cope with weird "devils of the mist", who have been released from the bowels of the earth by a volcano, and who are kidnapping young women top side to sacrifice to that volcano.; Electro is called into service to battle an evil, now insane, ex-genius of brain surgery, stationed in an old castle somewhere off the coast of Cuba, who has successfully created artifical blood.; A criminal who has fatally wounded a tax collector sees the Raider, and works out a scheme to convince the Sheriff that the Raider is the murderer...all as a blind to steal the tax money himself.; A wanted criminal captures two Scotland Yard detectives and leaves them for dead, while he attempts to fly out of the jungle to freedom.; While Terry Vance, the Boy of a Hundred Hobbies" works on an experiment, he hears a police call of someone murdered in a penthouse. Investigating, he discovers the man has been murdered by "remote control"!; Trapped in a translite tube, only the intervention of Betty Dean saves the Torch and ends the battle between him and Namor.