(October 1941)
Marvel,
1940 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1941-07-31
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Timely Comics Inc.
- Editing
- Joe Simon (editor)
Issue Notes
MYSTIC COMICS is published bi-monthly by Timely Comics, Inc. at Meriden, Conn. Application for second class entry is pending at the post office at Meriden, Conn., under Act of March 3, 1879. Contents copyright 1941 by Timely Comics, Inc., 330 W. 42nd St., New York, N. Y. Single copies 10¢; yearly subscription 60¢ in the U. S. A. Printed in the U. S. A.
October, 1941 issue.
The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1941, New Series, Vol. 36, No. 4.
October, 1941 issue.
The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1941, New Series, Vol. 36, No. 4.
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[A Special Offer for the Readers of Human Torch Comics] (sic)
Captain America Comics; Captain America's Sentinels of Liberty / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
Meet the Destroyer
Destroyer / comic story / 15 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee (signed)
- Pencils
- Jack Binder (signed)
- Inks
- Jack Binder (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Destroyer [Keen Marlow] (introduction; origin); Professor Eric Schmitt (introduction; death)
- Synopsis
- American reporter Keen Marlow is sent to Nazi Germany to report news other than what the government propaganda department releases. While investigating a prison, he is captured and tortured as a spy. Professor Eric Schmitt is thrown into the same cell with him for refusing to divulge his secret invention, a serum which he gives to Marlow before dying. With his strength enhanced by the serum, Marlow breaks out and creates the identity of the Destroyer, sabotaging Nazi activities and helping innocent Germans.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Signed with "by Jack Binder" and "story by Stan Lee". In most later issues, the Destroyer's last name is spelled "Marlowe", but it is "Marlow" here.
[Special Offer to the Readers of Mystic Comics]
Captain America Comics; Captain America's Sentinels of Liberty / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
[The Scar]
Destroyer / comic story / 15 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Destroyer [Keen Marlow]; Florence von Banger (introduction; origin)
- Synopsis
- The Scar, a Nazi scientist, uses his death ray on Germans protesting food rations. A young woman named Florence von Banger runs up afterward to find her father among the dying, and swears that she will fight the Nazis to avenge him. The Destroyer hears her as he arrives on the scene, and offers to help her, revealing his identity to her. When they hear the Scar is about to use the ray again, the Destroyer goes to stop him even though they suspect it is a trap.
Identity Unknown
Black Marvel / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Black Marvel [Dan Lyons]
- Synopsis
- The Black Marvel's efforts to discover who killed a German scientist who had fled to the U.S. are complicated when one of his main suspects develops amnesia.
The Mystic Line-Up
text article / 2 pages
- Characters
- Destroyer [Keen Marlow]; Black Marvel [Dan Lyons] (origin retold); The Terror (origin retold); Challenger [Bill Waring] (origin retold); Blazing Skull [Mark Todd]
Indexer Notes
Stan Lee explains why certain features were chosen for the comic; first 'Bullpen Bulletin' ?
Dolls of Death
The Terror / comic story / 7 pages
- Characters
- The Terror
- Synopsis
- When the miniaturized dead body of a general is delivered to the President as a doll, the Terror investigates the "Life-Like Doll Company" to prevent any more such bizarre murders.
[no title indexed]
Challenger / comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Choose Your Weapons!
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Challenger [Bill Waring]
- Synopsis
- The Challenger issues a challenge to a serial strangler to strangle him while he walks unprotected through the city on the night of the next full moon.
[Dark Streets of London]
Blazing Skull / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Blazing Skull [Mark Todd]; Winston Churchill
- Synopsis
- The Blazing Skull is too late to stop German spies from informing their superiors of the prime minister's secret flight over their country, so he must go to Germany himself to stage a rescue.
Indexer Notes
Credits suggested by the Who's Who and comparison with signed work by Davis elsewhere.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
["Never again would the Nazi whip crack, so long as the mighty Destroyer lived!"]
Destroyer -
1.
[A Special Offer for the Readers of Human Torch Comics] (sic)
Captain America Comics; Captain America's Sentinels of Liberty -
2.
Meet the Destroyer
Destroyer -
3.
[Special Offer to the Readers of Mystic Comics]
Captain America Comics; Captain America's Sentinels of Liberty -
4.
[The Scar]
Destroyer -
5.
Identity Unknown
Black Marvel -
6.
The Mystic Line-Up
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7.
Dolls of Death
The Terror -
8.
["Choose Your Weapons!"]
Challenger -
9.
[Dark Streets of London]
Blazing Skull -
10.
["9000 Novelties!"]
Johnson Smith & Company -
11.
[Young Allies Comics]
Young Allies Comics #1
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- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Del Gruber
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Stanley Krute
- Tony R. Rose
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