Text Stories in Marvel Mystery Comics #21-24
Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2017 4:58 pm
MARVEL MYSTERY COMICS #21 (Jul 1941)
Text Story:
By Stan Lee
APPEARANCES:
Toro, Human Torch, A. Dymopolis, British convoy, Nazis
SYNOPSIS:
The Torch receives a message from a Greek Minister, A Dymopolis, who asks him to help save democracy in Greece. The Torch and Toro fly to Greece and meet with him. They’re told the Nazis have some sort of superweapon in the Mediterranean that is sinking all the British shipping that is intended to help the Greeks resist the Nazis and Italians. The Torch and Toro fly over the Mediterranean and discover a buoy attached by a cable to something underwater. When a British convoy appears over the horizon, a Nazi weapons platform surfaces (triggered by sensors on the buoy) and targets it. The Torch and Toro start melting guns and torpedo launchers, but there are too many. Toro wants to melt through the hull and sink the platform, but he gets caught in a giant air suction pump. The Torch is able to melt through the hull, though, rescuing Toro and sinking the platform. A week later, they’re back in New York and decide to go to the circus.
NOTE:
There’s a gap of a week between their sinking of the Nazi weapons platform and their return to New York, so if it’s necessary a European adventure or two could be slipped into that gap.
MARVEL MYSTERY COMICS #22 (Aug 1941)
Text Story:
By Stan Lee
APPEARANCES:
Human Torch, Toro, British Army, German Army, Namor, British Navy, Luftwaffe
FLASHBACK:
The Human Torch, Toro, and Namor meet up at Dunkirk to drive off Nazi tanks and planes long enough for the British Navy to rescue their army off the beach.
SYNOPSIS:
The Torch reads a magazine article about Dunkirk and chuckles to Toro, since they both know that their involvement in that battle hasn’t become public knowledge.
NOTE:
I’m not sure where to place either the flashback or the main part of this story. Dunkirk happened “a year ago” relative to when the Torch is reading about it, placing this story around May 1941 (but I would allow for a few months of rounding in either direction). However, in the Dunkirk flashback, Namor says to the Torch, “So, Torchy, we’re going to fight side by side again, eh?” That would mean that the Torch and Namor have worked together at least once prior to Dunkirk in May 1940. However, their first team-up (rather than fight against one another) was in M/MC 17, which was published in March 1941. Can that story be moved to prior to Dunkirk? If not, does this mean in 616 there was another major incident at Dunkirk sometime after the M/MC 17 story? And if so, when, since the main part of this story would have to be placed around a year after? I’m hoping someone can figure this out. Until then, I’m not going to hazard a guess as to where to place this story in the chronologies for Torch, Toro, and Namor.
MARVEL MYSTERY COMICS #23 (Sep 1941)
Text Story:
By Stan Lee
APPEARANCES:
Vision, Law-Giver, Markham Ericsohn, murderer, Stan Lee
FLASHBACK:
The Vision is a law enforcer in his smoke world. One day a murder takes place, which is exceedingly rare. The murderer is caught and is sentenced to be exiled. At the same time, the human scientist Markham Ericsohn discovers how to travel between Earth and the smoke world. He visits with the Vision’s people and convinces them to send the Vision to Earth to check it out and perhaps do good. The first attempt to visit Earth goes wrong and the Vision ends up in Jupiter. He decides to dump the exile there and then attempt to go to Earth again. He does so and realizes he can do great good, planning to visit Earth each month.
SYNOPSIS:
In response to requests from readers, the Vision meets with Stan Lee and explains where he is from and why he visits Earth.
NOTE:
Apparently, Marvels Comics (the 616 in-universe version of Marvel) was publishing Vision stories, and somehow forwarded fan mail to the Vision.
MARVEL MYSTERY COMICS #24 (Oct 1941)
Text Story:
By Stan Lee
APPEARANCES:
Cops, Hi Smithers, Lemuel Carter, Charlie Biswell, Police Commissioner Henderson, Lt. Jackson, Deadline Dawson, Jake Walters (bts), Terry Vance
FLASHBACK 1:
Charlie Biswell, secretary to bank president Lemuel Carter, asks for a $500 dollar loan. Carter turns him down, saying that he’s short of funds.
FLASHBACK 2:
Police Commissioner Henderson tells Lt. Jackson that he’s fed up with criminals and thinks they should chase all of them out of town, even those they can’t pin anything on, like Jake Walters, who everybody knows is a bank robber even though it’s never been proven.
SYNOPSIS:
Terry Vance investigates a bank robbery. After interviewing witnesses, like the guard Hi Smithers, and getting some info from his friend, Deadline Dawson, he concludes that the bank president, Lemuel Carter, robbed the bank.
Chronologies:
BISWELL, CHARLIE
M/MC 24/TEXT-FB
CARTER, LEMUEL
M/MC 24/TEXT-FB
DAWSON, RAYMOND “DEADLINE”
……
M/MC 20/4
M/MC 21/3
M/MC 22/4
M/MC 23/6
*M/MC 24/TEXT (add)
M/MC 24/3
DYMOPOLIS, A.
M/MC 21/TEXT
ERICSOHN, MARKHAM
M/MC 23/TEXT-FB
HENDERSON, POLICE COMMISSIONER
M/MC 24/TEXT-FB
HUMAN TORCH/JIM HAMMOND
……
M/MC 20
M/MC 21
*M/MC 21/TEXT (add)
ALLWC 1
M/MC 22
JACKSON, LT.
M/MC 24/TEXT-FB
LAW-GIVER
M/MC 23/TEXT-FB
LEE, STAN/STANLEY LIEBER
*M/MC 23/TEXT (add)
MYSC 10/8
SGTF 22
SS3 -1-FB
SS3 -1
{FF 10}
……
SMITHERS, HI
M/MC 24/TEXT
SUB-MARINER/NAMOR MACKENZIE
? (see note for M/MC 22 above)
TORO/TOM RAYMOND
……
M/MC 20
M/MC 21
*M/MC 21/TEXT (add)
ALLWC 1
M/MC 22
VANCE, TERRY
……
M/MC 20/4
M/MC 21/3
M/MC 22/4
M/MC 23/6
*M/MC 24/TEXT (add)
M/MC 24/3
VISION/AARKUS
*M/MC 23/TEXT-FB (add)
M/MC 13/3
M/MC 14/4
M/MC 15/4
M/MC 16/4
……
M/MC 20/3
M/MC 21/6
M/MC 22/6
M/MC 23/4
*M/MC 23/TEXT (add)
M/MC 24/6
WALTERS, JAKE
M/MC 24/TEXT-BTS
Text Story:
By Stan Lee
APPEARANCES:
Toro, Human Torch, A. Dymopolis, British convoy, Nazis
SYNOPSIS:
The Torch receives a message from a Greek Minister, A Dymopolis, who asks him to help save democracy in Greece. The Torch and Toro fly to Greece and meet with him. They’re told the Nazis have some sort of superweapon in the Mediterranean that is sinking all the British shipping that is intended to help the Greeks resist the Nazis and Italians. The Torch and Toro fly over the Mediterranean and discover a buoy attached by a cable to something underwater. When a British convoy appears over the horizon, a Nazi weapons platform surfaces (triggered by sensors on the buoy) and targets it. The Torch and Toro start melting guns and torpedo launchers, but there are too many. Toro wants to melt through the hull and sink the platform, but he gets caught in a giant air suction pump. The Torch is able to melt through the hull, though, rescuing Toro and sinking the platform. A week later, they’re back in New York and decide to go to the circus.
NOTE:
There’s a gap of a week between their sinking of the Nazi weapons platform and their return to New York, so if it’s necessary a European adventure or two could be slipped into that gap.
MARVEL MYSTERY COMICS #22 (Aug 1941)
Text Story:
By Stan Lee
APPEARANCES:
Human Torch, Toro, British Army, German Army, Namor, British Navy, Luftwaffe
FLASHBACK:
The Human Torch, Toro, and Namor meet up at Dunkirk to drive off Nazi tanks and planes long enough for the British Navy to rescue their army off the beach.
SYNOPSIS:
The Torch reads a magazine article about Dunkirk and chuckles to Toro, since they both know that their involvement in that battle hasn’t become public knowledge.
NOTE:
I’m not sure where to place either the flashback or the main part of this story. Dunkirk happened “a year ago” relative to when the Torch is reading about it, placing this story around May 1941 (but I would allow for a few months of rounding in either direction). However, in the Dunkirk flashback, Namor says to the Torch, “So, Torchy, we’re going to fight side by side again, eh?” That would mean that the Torch and Namor have worked together at least once prior to Dunkirk in May 1940. However, their first team-up (rather than fight against one another) was in M/MC 17, which was published in March 1941. Can that story be moved to prior to Dunkirk? If not, does this mean in 616 there was another major incident at Dunkirk sometime after the M/MC 17 story? And if so, when, since the main part of this story would have to be placed around a year after? I’m hoping someone can figure this out. Until then, I’m not going to hazard a guess as to where to place this story in the chronologies for Torch, Toro, and Namor.
MARVEL MYSTERY COMICS #23 (Sep 1941)
Text Story:
By Stan Lee
APPEARANCES:
Vision, Law-Giver, Markham Ericsohn, murderer, Stan Lee
FLASHBACK:
The Vision is a law enforcer in his smoke world. One day a murder takes place, which is exceedingly rare. The murderer is caught and is sentenced to be exiled. At the same time, the human scientist Markham Ericsohn discovers how to travel between Earth and the smoke world. He visits with the Vision’s people and convinces them to send the Vision to Earth to check it out and perhaps do good. The first attempt to visit Earth goes wrong and the Vision ends up in Jupiter. He decides to dump the exile there and then attempt to go to Earth again. He does so and realizes he can do great good, planning to visit Earth each month.
SYNOPSIS:
In response to requests from readers, the Vision meets with Stan Lee and explains where he is from and why he visits Earth.
NOTE:
Apparently, Marvels Comics (the 616 in-universe version of Marvel) was publishing Vision stories, and somehow forwarded fan mail to the Vision.
MARVEL MYSTERY COMICS #24 (Oct 1941)
Text Story:
By Stan Lee
APPEARANCES:
Cops, Hi Smithers, Lemuel Carter, Charlie Biswell, Police Commissioner Henderson, Lt. Jackson, Deadline Dawson, Jake Walters (bts), Terry Vance
FLASHBACK 1:
Charlie Biswell, secretary to bank president Lemuel Carter, asks for a $500 dollar loan. Carter turns him down, saying that he’s short of funds.
FLASHBACK 2:
Police Commissioner Henderson tells Lt. Jackson that he’s fed up with criminals and thinks they should chase all of them out of town, even those they can’t pin anything on, like Jake Walters, who everybody knows is a bank robber even though it’s never been proven.
SYNOPSIS:
Terry Vance investigates a bank robbery. After interviewing witnesses, like the guard Hi Smithers, and getting some info from his friend, Deadline Dawson, he concludes that the bank president, Lemuel Carter, robbed the bank.
Chronologies:
BISWELL, CHARLIE
M/MC 24/TEXT-FB
CARTER, LEMUEL
M/MC 24/TEXT-FB
DAWSON, RAYMOND “DEADLINE”
……
M/MC 20/4
M/MC 21/3
M/MC 22/4
M/MC 23/6
*M/MC 24/TEXT (add)
M/MC 24/3
DYMOPOLIS, A.
M/MC 21/TEXT
ERICSOHN, MARKHAM
M/MC 23/TEXT-FB
HENDERSON, POLICE COMMISSIONER
M/MC 24/TEXT-FB
HUMAN TORCH/JIM HAMMOND
……
M/MC 20
M/MC 21
*M/MC 21/TEXT (add)
ALLWC 1
M/MC 22
JACKSON, LT.
M/MC 24/TEXT-FB
LAW-GIVER
M/MC 23/TEXT-FB
LEE, STAN/STANLEY LIEBER
*M/MC 23/TEXT (add)
MYSC 10/8
SGTF 22
SS3 -1-FB
SS3 -1
{FF 10}
……
SMITHERS, HI
M/MC 24/TEXT
SUB-MARINER/NAMOR MACKENZIE
? (see note for M/MC 22 above)
TORO/TOM RAYMOND
……
M/MC 20
M/MC 21
*M/MC 21/TEXT (add)
ALLWC 1
M/MC 22
VANCE, TERRY
……
M/MC 20/4
M/MC 21/3
M/MC 22/4
M/MC 23/6
*M/MC 24/TEXT (add)
M/MC 24/3
VISION/AARKUS
*M/MC 23/TEXT-FB (add)
M/MC 13/3
M/MC 14/4
M/MC 15/4
M/MC 16/4
……
M/MC 20/3
M/MC 21/6
M/MC 22/6
M/MC 23/4
*M/MC 23/TEXT (add)
M/MC 24/6
WALTERS, JAKE
M/MC 24/TEXT-BTS