Men of Mystery Comics #29

(2001)

An Old Favorite Returns! (Table of Contents)

Good Girl Art Quarterly / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Bill Black

Inks:

Bill Black

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Characters:

Sheena

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover. Promo for Good Girl Art Quarterly #19, with cover depicted.

About This Issue (Table of Contents)

foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Mark G. Heike (signed)

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Letters:

typeset

Indexer Notes

Comments on the stories in the issue, with two panel reprints

[The Fire Cult] (Table of Contents)

Wildfire / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Robert Turner [as Robt. Turner]

Pencils:

Jim Mooney

Inks:

Jim Mooney

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Wildfire [Carol Vance]; The Fire-Devil

Synopsis:

The Fire-Devil spreads terror in Pleasantville with his armored flame-thrower.

Reprints:

• from Smash Comics (Quality Comics, 1939 series) #27 (October 1941)

Indexer Notes

Note printed in this issue says the story is reprinted from Smash Comics #31, but it is wrong.

["On a lonely country road in the mountains..."] (Table of Contents)

Flash Lightning / comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Jim Mooney (signed)

Inks:

Jim Mooney (signed)

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Flash Lightning [Lash Lightning]; Mastermind; The Mummy [Professor Vatz] (death); Amy Lane; Old Man of the Pyramids

Synopsis:

The Mastermind invents a machine to give him lightning powers. He allies himself with the Mummy to try to learn the secret of his radium-coated bandages, but kills him in a fit of anger. Later Mastermind helps foreign agents sabotage defense plants.

Reprints:

• from Lightning Comics (Ace Magazines, 1940 series) #v2#1 (June 1941)

Indexer Notes

Title character is just referred to as "Lightning" in the story, with "Flash" apparently a late addition to the logo. Story signed by Mooney in panel seven of page seven.

Interview With Jim Mooney (Table of Contents)

text article / 9 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Mark G. Heike

Pencils:

Jim Mooney

Inks:

Jim Mooney

Letters:

typeset

Indexer Notes

Interview with comics artist Jim Mooney, with covers, panels, and other illustrations

Wildfire 2001 (Table of Contents)

Wildfire / illustration / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Mark G. Heike

Pencils:

Jim Mooney

Inks:

Mark G. Heike

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Wildfire [Carol Vance]

Indexer Notes

An updated version of the Golden Age Wildfire.

[The Stolen Battleship Plans] (Table of Contents)

Samson and David / comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Alex Blum

Inks:

Alex Blum

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Samson; David

Reprints:

• from Fantastic Comics (Fox, 1939 series) #20 (July 1941)

From the Moth to the Lynx (Table of Contents)

text article / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Pierce Rice ?

Inks:

?

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Characters:

The Moth; The Lynx

Indexer Notes

Theories on how Jim Mooney's "The Moth" story ended up being published as "The Lynx."

[The Coming of the Lynx] (Table of Contents)

The Lynx with Blackie the Mystery Boy / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Jim Mooney

Inks:

Jim Mooney

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

The Lynx; Blackie

Reprints:

• from Mystery Men Comics (Fox, 1939 series) #13 (August 1940)

AC Back Issue (Table of Contents)

AC Comics / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Letters:

typeset

Indexer Notes

Inside back cover. Listing of back issues available from AC Comics, Longwood, Fla.

Coming from AC Comics! (Table of Contents)

AC Comics / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

(various)

Inks:

(various)

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset

Indexer Notes

Back cover. Promo for Good Girl Art Quarterly #19, Femforce Uncut, and Best of the West #20, with covers depicted.