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Marvel Mystery Comics #25

Marvel Mystery Comics #25

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Market Value

Ungraded
$1,679
as of Sep 4, 2026
Graded (CGC 8.0)
$5,667
as of Sep 4, 2026
Graded copies for sale
$480 - $31,200
20 graded copies listed, as of Aug 30, 2026
Reprinted 8x

A numbers gangster decides to move into healthcare by kidnapping pharmacists and forcing them to create black market drugs. He shoots one of them at the hospital when he protests and he throws another into a vat of acid in his hideout chemical lab when the man refuses to produce drugs that are dangerous to people. Torch and Toro set off an explosion which kills the gangster.

Cover Date

November 1, 1941

On Sale Date

September 18, 1941

Pages

68

Cover Price

$0.10

Editor

Joe Simon

Characters

Aarkus; David Rand; Human Torch; Jeff Mace; Jim Hammond; Ka-Zar the Great; Namor; Sub-Mariner; Terry Vance; The Angel; The Patriot; The Vision; Thomas Halloway; Thomas Raymond; Toro; Ali Hamud (villain, renegade Arab prince, death); Betty Dean; Bull Dawson; Captain Olendorff (villain, death); Carma (Imperial guard); Deadline Dawson; Dorma; Garrett's butler (villain); Herr Huss (villain, Hitler's right hand man, death); John Garrett (villain, a pro-Nazi American, death); Joseph (villain, butler); Luther Robinson; Lynne Harris; Mark Casey (newspaper reporter); Professor Enric Zagnar (villain, metaphysics instructor, death); Queen Jarna (villain, Queen of the Lavorites); Rocky (villain, death); Saba (brother of Ali Hamud, death); Steve (reporter for \"The Voice\"); The King [Steve] (villain, death); the Lavorites (\"the Little People\"); The Python (villain, death); Tom (Policeman); un-mnamed managing editor of \"The Voice\"; un-named German spies (villains); un-named Lecture Guild chairman; un-named Nazi arsonist (villain); un-named prison warden

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