Men of Mystery Comics #88

(2012)

The Mad Drama of the Hunted Hunter (Table of Contents)

Mr. Scarlet and Pinky / comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Otto Binder

Pencils:

Jack Binder

Inks:

Jack Binder

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Mr. Scarlet [Brian Butler]; Pinky; Bragley Bragdon (big game hunter and explorer); Buck North (fur trapper)

Synopsis:

While visiting a big game hunter in his home and listening to stories of the thrill of the hunt, Brian and Pinky witness a bear trophy suddenly springing to life, which then puts on hunting attire, grabs a rifle, and heads out the door! When Mr. Scarlet and Pinky try to follow it, the bear turns on them...and they become the hunted!

Reprints:

• from Wow Comics (Fawcett, 1940 series) #18 (October 1943)

Indexer Notes

Art credits by Bill Black.

The Laughing Robin Hood (Table of Contents)

Quicksilver / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Nick Cardy

Inks:

Nick Cardy

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Quicksilver [Max]; Tony Sinn and hig gang (first appearance; villains)

Reprints:

• from National Comics (Quality Comics, 1940 series) #7 (January 1941)

Indexer Notes

AC credits art to Paul Gustavson, though by-lined Nick Cardy.

[The Beasts of Berlin] (Table of Contents)

Merlin the Magician / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Toni Blum [as Lance Blackwood] (signed)

Pencils:

Fred Guardineer

Inks:

Fred Guardineer

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Merlin the Magician [Jock Kellog]; un-named U.S. Army General; Adolf Hitler (villain, image); un-named U-Boat Commander (villain, death?); the Nazis (villains, many die)

Synopsis:

An enemy U-Boat surfaces at night along the Atlantic Coast and begins to terrorize a seacoast town, threatening the local inhabitants, telling them not to resist, else ten of them will be hung for each German soldier killed. Merlin decides to intervene in his own way!

Reprints:

• from National Comics (Quality Comics, 1940 series) #26 (November 1942)

[The Carnival Around the Corner] (Table of Contents)

The Blue Beetle / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Charles Nicholas

Inks:

Charles Nicholas

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

The Blue Beetle [Dan Garrett]; Von Heuger (villain, introduction)

Reprints:

• from Mystery Men Comics (Fox, 1939 series) #6 (January 1940)

[The Professor's Blackmail Band] (Table of Contents)

The Green Mask / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

? [as Walter Frehm]

Inks:

? [as Walter Frehm]

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

The Green Mask [Michael Shelby]; News Doakes; F. B. Hendrix; Hendrix's daughter; The Professor (villain, introduction, death)

Synopsis:

The Professor is indulging in a vicious blackmail racket upon four big business men he has tricked into a phony trust that has led several of them to commit suicide rather than pay up. When a Herman Bates commits suicide, the Green Mask looks into the matter and ferrets out the rats responsible.

Reprints:

• from Mystery Men Comics (Fox, 1939 series) #10 (May 1940)

["Death, disaster, and destruction sweep over America..."] (Table of Contents)

The Music Master / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Stephen Douglas

Pencils:

Jimmy Thompson

Inks:

Jimmy Thompson

Letters:

Jimmy Thompson

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

The Music Master [John Wallace]; Downbeat; Tango (Downbeat's pet dog); Joe (train engineer, death); von Frosch (villain, death); Wurfel (villain, death?); un-named Nazis (villains, many die)

Synopsis:

A mysterious train accident on the outskirts of Coronaville interests the Music Master, especially because farm animals found near the scene were either dead or deaf! He discovers the Nazis are using a secret weapon, called the Sound-o-Graff, to accomplish this.

Reprints:

• from Heroic Comics (Eastern Color, 1943 series) #23 (March 1944)

[“A trail of blood, which led around two thirds of the globe...”] (Table of Contents)

Stormy Foster / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Rudy Palais

Inks:

Rudy Palais

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Reprints:

• from Hit Comics (Quality Comics, 1940 series) #31 (April 1944)

The Mystery of the Leprechauns (Table of Contents)

Marvelette [Mary Marvel] / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Jack Binder

Inks:

Jack Binder

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Marvelette [Mary Matson]

Synopsis:

Mary heads out for the city orphanage to help open the shoe drive that will secure many shoes for the needy children inside. Unfortunately, when the Mayor claims to have seen leprechauns, the citizens of the city scoff at him and want him to resign...all of which threatens the shoe drive at which the Mayor is supposed to speak.

Reprints:

• from The Marvel Family (Fawcett, 1945 series) #22 (April 1948)

Indexer Notes

Slightly revised Mary Marvel story.

["In ravaged Holland, three Gestapo agents..."] (Table of Contents)

The Unknown / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Ted Udall

Pencils:

Bernard Klein

Inks:

Bernard Klein

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

The Unknown; Herr Raval

Synopsis:

The new Nazi-backed leader of the French government is challenged by the Unknown, and promptly arrests a hundred of the French people in order to put them to death. The Unknown breaks into the prison complex and frees the Frenchmen, and attends to the Nazi swine as well.

Reprints:

• from National Comics (Quality Comics, 1940 series) #26 (November 1942)

[Origin of British Agent 99] (Table of Contents)

British Agent 99 / comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

? [as William Churchill, Jr.]

Pencils:

Arturo Cazeneuve

Inks:

Arturo Cazeneuve

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

war; adventure

Characters:

British Agent 99

Synopsis:

Traveling to Belgrade, Yugoslavia, on his first assignment, in the disguise of an American reporter, Agent 99 saves a young girl from the Nazis, and tells her that he is there in Yugoslavia to protect her from Gestapo agents.

Reprints:

• from Pocket Comics (Harvey, 1941 series) #1 (August 1941)

["The 'Black Diamond Mine', best anthracite producer..."] (Table of Contents)

Man O' Metal / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Harry G. Peter

Inks:

Harry G. Peter

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Man O' Metal [Pat Dempsey]; Wade Ferris (President of Magatex Steel Company); Nels (coal miner); Toad Harper (villain, local union boss)

Synopsis:

Wade Ferris sends for Pat Dempsey because he is concerned that his business is about to be wrecked because of the coal shortage, and that a plot is afoot to do just that! When Pat appears as a new miner wanting work, he hears about the ghosts of Indians in the mine, but later discovers that the mine may be full of diamonds.

Reprints:

• from Heroic Comics (Eastern Color, 1943 series) #23 (March 1944)

Indexer Notes

Art credits by Bill Black.

The Man Who Looked Into the Future! (Table of Contents)

The Zebra / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Arturo Cazeneuve (signed)

Inks:

Arturo Cazeneuve (signed)

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

The Zebra [John Doyle]; Professor Future

Synopsis:

John and Mary witness a Nazi U-Boat sink a ship, but finds the whole scenario fishy, and feels that the sub got its information about the sunken ship from someone unknown. The pair head to the circus and run across a person claiming to be able to reveal the secrets of the future...and Doyle thinks he has found that person supplying the Nazis with information.

Reprints:

• from Green Hornet Comics (Harvey, 1942 series) #16 (January 1944)

Ambassador to Pluto (Table of Contents)

Kid Marvel [Captain Marvel, Jr.] / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Bill Woolfolk

Pencils:

Joe Certa

Inks:

Joe Certa

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Kid Marvel

Reprints:

• from Captain Marvel Jr. (Fawcett, 1942 series) #111 (July 1952)

Indexer Notes

A slightly modified Captain Marvel, Jr. reprint.

["Hunting boar in a remote section of England..."] (Table of Contents)

The Black Knight / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

R. S. Callender (signed)

Pencils:

Erwin L. Hess ?

Inks:

Erwin L. Hess ?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

The Black Knight [Sir Percy] (a smithy, introduction, origin); King Victor (mention only); Sir Robin; Ruth (Lady-in-Waiting to Lady Allerton); Sir Mordant (villain, a disgraced knight)

Synopsis:

After assisting the good King Victor with his broken leg, a young smithy is given a ring by the King...and he has the choice of remaining in England, studying medicine and helping poor villagers in their sufferings, or boarding a ship for distant lands. While residing in an inn's stables, he over-hears Sir Mordant and his men, who plan to kidnap King Victor. He is found out and is thrown to his death, but survives and heads out to warn the King of the plot. Saving the King from Mordant, the smithy is rewarded by the King to become the Black Knight.

Reprints:

• from The Funnies (Dell, 1936 series) #45 (July 1940)

Indexer Notes

Art credits from Craig Delich.

[The Undertaker and Tom Thumb] (Table of Contents)

Doll Man / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

John Spranger

Inks:

John Spranger

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; Martha Roberts; The Undertaker (villain); Tom Thumb (villain)

Synopsis:

When the Undertaker and Tom Thumb inadvertently help each other steal Egyptian treasure, they decide that whoever could kill the Doll Man could keep the jewels!

Reprints:

• from Doll Man (Quality Comics, 1941 series) #28 (May 1950)

Indexer Notes

Art credits from Bill Black.

["High on top of the world's highest mountain..."] (Table of Contents)

Phantasmo / comic story / 16 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

R. S. Callender (signed)

Pencils:

E. C. Stoner

Inks:

E. C. Stoner

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Reprints:

• from The Funnies (Dell, 1936 series) #45 (July 1940), #46

[Back Cover] (Table of Contents)

Doll Man / illustration / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Pencils:

Al Bryant

Inks:

Al Bryant

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Doll Man [Darrel Dane]

Reprints:

• from Doll Man (Quality Comics, 1941 series) #11 (Winter 1946)