Marvel Mystery Comics #28
Cover AKey Facts
- 1st appearance of Jimmy Jupiter
Market Value
- Ungraded
- $989
- as of Sep 4, 2026
- Graded (CGC 8.0)
- $8,540
- as of Sep 4, 2026
- Graded copies for sale
- $676 - $14,501
- 20 graded copies listed, as of Aug 30, 2026
Torch and Toro are invited to lead the Coney Island Mardi Gras pageant, but a henchman of a gunrunner named Izan succeeds in interrupting the event with a bomb before committing suicide with a poison pill rather than facing his boss's judgment to be drowned for failure. Izan captures Torch and Toro with gas and places them into glass coffin tubes which he plans to dump into the sea. Discovering a leak in the tube, the Torch flames on and superheats the glass so that it shatters when it hits the water. He frees Toro and they capture Izan.
Cover Date
February 1, 1942
On Sale Date
December 16, 1941
Pages
68
Cover Price
$0.10
Editor
Joe Simon
Credits
Writer
Penciller
Inker
Letterer
Characters
Jimmy Jupiter (1st appearance); Aarkus; army of zombies (villains, introduction for all, all die twice); Aubrey de Woode (Hollywood director, death); Baby Dean McCarthy (introduction, Betty Dean's sister and Slug's wife); Casey (Daily Bugle reporter); Chuck \"Slug\" McCarthy (villain, introduction, reforms); Deadline Dawson; Detective Jenks; Dr. Igor Korbeau (villain, introduction, death); Dr. Parker; Dr. Schlissel; Dr. Watson; Dr. Zadig; five unnamed henchmen of Izan (villains, all die); Fritz (villain); Gordon De Wolfe (villain, introduction, nephew of Aubrey de Woode); Green Face [Reibel] (villain, introduction); Guardian of the Spirit World (introduction); inhabitants of the Land of Nowhere [Elmer Tree; Izan (villain, introduction); James Jankovicz; Jeff Mace; Jim Hammond; Mary Morgan; Mr. Larson (sailor); Mr. Martin (death); Namor; Oliver (villain); Rogers (naval diver); Terry Vance; The Angel; The Falcon (villain, introduction, death); The Human Torch; the Nazis (villains); The Patriot; the Russians; The Sub-Mariner; The Vision; The Wump-Jump (villain, introduction, a dragon); Thomas Halloway; Thomas Raymond; Toro; unnamed butler of Aubrey de Woode; unnamed police chief; unnamed Police Commissioner; unnamed talking trees] (introduction for all); unnamed woman; Zombie Fuehrer [General Henchel] (villain, introduction, dies twice); zombie monk