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The Eve of Marvel's entrance to World War 2 0
With over a year under its belt, Marvel Mystery Comics moved into a new era with issue #13. This would be the year that the US entered the second world war and would create the basis for the Marvel Comics that we know today but first, Marvel had to get over a fairly rocky issue.The Human Torch segment in this issue suffered for two reasons. First, it looks like Carl Burgos had to rush this one or someone else was helping him pencil. The detail that he normally puts into his artwork was noticeabl...
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12 issues and they have it (mostly) right 0
Marvel Mystery Comics #12 is an above average issue after the lackluster issue 11. All of the strips were better than normal and the prose story was decent as well. I'm looking forward to reading the next few issues now.The Human Torch story follows up from the last issue's cliffhanger. The Torch must search for the mysterious "JB" while the police force is after him for disobeying orders. Once again, Marvel shows why it became the best company in comics by demonstrating at a very early period t...
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The Decline and Fall of Marvel Mystery Comics? 0
Marvel Mystery Comics #11 continues a slight decline that was seen in #10. I hope that we see some improvement soon and I am fascinated that they chose a cover with the Human Torch smashing Nazi tanks even though America had not yet entered the war at the time that this one was printed. I think that World War 2 will probably inject some fresh story telling ideas into the issue but this particular one was not very good barring the Submariner story and some promise for the next issue from the Ka-Z...
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The Mystery Revealed but still a pretty good yarn 0
After the awesomeness that was issue #9 it is perhaps inevitable that the next issue would be a disappointment. Perhaps even the editors themselves hadn't realized what a problem it would be to have their two most popular character class because they wrote themselves into a corner. Neither character could win after the scenario that ended the last issue so the resolution at the beginning of this issue was pretty lame and disappointing. Still, after a slow start the issue did pick up again.The Hu...
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Fire vs Water 0
Marvel Mystery Comics continues to amaze and issue #9 is no different. Finally after 2 issues of set up we have a complete crossover where an entire story details the titanic fight between the Human Torch and Submariner. Carl Burgos and Bill Everett do a great job at sharing the artist duties and while it seems clear where one artist leaves off and the other takes over they still did a good job of working together so that the story feels seamless. You have to start trying to pay attention to not...
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Just wow! 0
Many people believe that the Marvel era began in 1961 with Fantastic Four #1. Others say that it started with Marvel Comics #1. I'm here to say that it officially began with Marvel Mystery Comics #8. Even though the characters of the Human Torch and Submariner were created in Marvel Comics #1, they always seemed to have adventures that were more out of some sort of pulp mystery mag, like Marvel Mystery Comics' sister publication, Daring Mystery Comics. Finally with this issue Marvel comes into i...
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An improvement if only a slight one. 0
Daring Mystery Comics was the red-headed stepchild of Marvel Mystery Comics. By all evidence it appears that characters and situations that were deemed riskier or cornier were put in this book rather than on the more high-profile Marvel mag. Daring's quality varied considerably in its first 3 issues and the 4th would be no different. Read on to see what I thought of each segment.The Purple Mask story this time appeared to have been drawn in a hurry as it seems kind of lazy. The character's faces...
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A step backwards 0
As I continued to try and catch up on my reading of the Golden Age of Marvel comics I turned to the third issue of Daring Mystery Comics. Again I found a comic that seems to have been the red-headed step-child to Marvel Mystery Comics which produced so much of the mythology for Marvel that we know today. Daring seemed to have access to the same talent but was more uneven and had a wider mix of good and bad stories in each issue. My thoughts one each section are detailed below:Dale of the FBI is ...
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Yes! To bad this wasn't the first issue 0
Here's another Marvel-ous golden age classic. The first issue of Daring Mystery Comics didn't really inspire much confidence. Its success ratio was much lower than its sister title of Marvel Mystery Comics. It isn't to much of a surprise since none of the characters from that mag went on into the Silver Age and remain icons of the super hero industry whereas Marvel Mystery Comics lasted 92 issues and spawned 2 major characters and several minor characters that are still in comics today. I sat do...
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Uneven at best 0
This is a pretty interesting title from Marvel's first year. It has big shoes to fill, being stacked up against up against the work being done in Marvel Mystery Comics where the beginning of the modern Marvel universe was created and where we receive the first glimpses of the beginning of the Marvel theme of heroes doing good in a world that hates and fears them. What unique qualities does this comic have to offer? Let's see. The comic starts off with an origin story for a character named The ...
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Marvelous 0
This is yet another great issue of Marvel Mystery Comics. We start off with a Human Torch story. Rather abruptly he's decided to join the police. I find that the public has grown to accept the Torch rather quickly as no one seems surprised or scared when they discover that officer Jim Hammond is in fact the Human Torch. The Human Torch stories are definitely getting more interesting though as we progress into a serial format where each story is leading into the next and finally we get some indic...
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Excellent and getting better 0
I continue to be impressed by these golden age comics. The storylines are darker and the death count is rather high. Its also interesting that after the earlier issues started trying to involve themselves more in the war going on in Europe that there has been a severe backpedaling. It almost seems as if the editors stepped in to take this away. At this point the idea of the US getting involved in a war was unpopular and they may have received complaints or worried that this would be seen by the ...
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