Marvel Mystery Comics #13

Timely ⋅ 1940

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Key Facts

1st appearance of the Vision, Aarkus of Smokeworld

Issue Details

Publisher

Timely

Artist

Alex Schomburg

Writer

Bill Everett

Published

November 1940

Synopsis

A collection of comics and stories, including -- "Terror in the Subway" , featuring the Human Torch :   A subway builder loses both of his sons to cave-ins while constructing the tunnels, causing him to lose his mind and seek revenge, wanting to wreck trains so they wouldn't disturb his sons' graves within the tunnels' walls. But he is confined by those whom he hires to help him accomplish the task and the Torch must stop them or else! -- "Smashing the Island Invasion" , featuring the Sub-Mariner :   Namor and Dorma, outfitted in new suits designed to ward off poison gasses, and on their way to Europe to aide in the war efforts, stop off at an island for rest. But they find themselves not only under arrest, but under attack from the Nazis as well. -- "Enter: the Vision" , featuring the titled hero, the Vision :   A professor, believing that ghosts and spirits actually inhabit worlds and universes that co-exist with our universe, is set upon by "Brains" Borelli's men during an experiment to prove his theory. The result is a being called Aarkus, Destoyer of Evil, drawn to the laboratory, which helps to save the professor and his daughter from harm. -- "In the New York Jungle" , featuring Ka-Zar :   Now in America, Ka-Zar is taken in by the police and escapes, but through the efforts of the Wilson's, is put into their custody. But Ka-Zar feels he must free Zar as well from behind bars in the zoo, and so he makes his way there to free him. -- Plus :  The Angel, Electro - the Marvel of the Age, and Terry Vance!

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