(Marvel Mystery Comics v1 009, 1940)
This one, while not being particularly spectacular as a whole does contain a lot of fun elements. Let's count them off!
We open on our hero one a one-issue trip to Europe (1) where he pooh-poohs the local superstitions (2) about a castle full of vampires who steal young women (3).
The Angel - for it is he who pooh-poohs - quickly gets mixed up in an attempted vampiric abduction and, surprise surprise, the guy isn't actually a vampire at all (4). A shame, because I love it when vampires are wretched little weasels instead of cool guys in evening wear.
It turns out that the supposed vampire clan is actually a front for an unnamed mad scientist - "Mad Doctor" is a captions-only unofficial name (5) - who is kidnapping the young women for use as test subjects (6) in his mind-swapping machine (7) and he intends to place his latest victim's mind into the body of a gorilla (8).
Lucky for the hapless fraulein, the Angel shows up, there is a fracas and the whole place ends up exploding (9).
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