Marvel Mystery Comics #4
1940
First Published
2.97
Average Rating
65
Number of Pages
Part of Series
A collection of classics starring Marvel's now iconic Golden Age heroes! The Human Torch first adopts the name of Jim Hammond, and Namor the Sub-Mariner clashes with a Nazi U-boat for the first time!
Avg Rating
2.97
Number of Ratings
66
5 STARS
3%
4 STARS
29%
3 STARS
38%
2 STARS
23%
1 STARS
8%
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Authors
Paul Gustavson
Author · 2 books
Paul Gustavson (né Karl Paul Gustafson) was an American-immigrant comic-book writer and artist. His most notable creations during the Golden Age of Comic Books were The Human Bomb for Quality Comics, and the Angel, who debuted in Marvel Comics #1 (Oct. 1939), the first publication of Marvel Comics forerunner Timely Comics. The Angel would star in more than 100 stories in the 1940s. The Human Bomb would later be acquired by DC Comics and make sporadic appearances as late as 2005.
Carl Burgos
Author · 6 books
Max Finkelstein created Jim Hamond, the Human Torch, for Timely Comics (later evolved into the Marvel Comics) in 1939, using the pen-name Carl Burgos. He also created the Thunderer for Daring Mystery Comics. Both series were published by Timely Comics, the forerunner of Marvel. He was drafted in 1942 and did mostly commercial art in subsequent years, occasionally drawing science fiction stories for Marvel, by that time known as Atlas. He also drew the first story featuring the Beetle (Abner Jenkins) in Strange Tales #123, starring Johnny Storm, the second Human Torch. Two years later, in Fantastic Four Annual #4, Marvel published a battle between the two Human Torches, resulting in the death of Jim Hamond. Although his daughter tried to preserve as much as possible, Burgos set fire to much of the Human Torch materials he had retained from the 1940s, considering the story an excuse to reassert trademark on a character they were not using simply to spite him.
