Men of Mystery Comics #65

([April] 2007)

Men of Mystery (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

Bill Black

Letters:

typeset

The Die is Cast (Table of Contents)

Commando Yank / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Carl Pfeufer

Inks:

Carl Pfeuffer

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Commando Yank [Chase Yale]

Synopsis:

The Yank becomes involves with an inventor and his daughter, trying to protect the invention from a carry-over group of Nazis bent on securing it to help them take over the world.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• from Wow Comics (Fawcett, 1940 series) #46 (August 1946)

Doll Man Joins the Underworld (Table of Contents)

Doll Man / comic story / 14 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Dan Barry

Inks:

Dan Barry ?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; Martha Roberts; Tom Thumb (villain); Muggs Maloney (first appearance; villain); Champagne Charley (first appearance; villain)

Synopsis:

Tom Thumb "rises from the grave" after dying in prison, thanks to a drug given to him by his henchmen. Vowing to get even w/Doll Man, he disguises himself as the Tiny Mite and sends a recently stolen 70-carat diamond to Martha Roberts [fiancee of Darrel Dane aka Doll Man], thus incriminating our hero!

Reprints:

• from Doll Man (Quality Comics, 1941 series) #16 (Spring 1948)
• from Doll Man (Quality Comics) #16 (Spring 1948)

Indexer Notes

incorrectly credited to Al Bryant in reprint.

["Within the grim confines of the Horror Mansion..."] (Table of Contents)

Captain Freedom / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Arturo Cazeneuve (signed)

Inks:

Arturo Cazeneuve (signed)

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Captain Freedom [Don Wright]; Young Defenders [Blackie; Joanie; Slim]; un-named Japanese [posing as Silas Green] (villain, introduction)

Synopsis:

When the Young Defenders see a man horribly killed and get Don Wright to investigate a license plate number of the fleeing perpetrator, they find out the car belongs to an inventor named Silas Green, who has invented a horrible killing agent called the Yellow Death! Captain Freedom vows to track the fiend down.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• from Speed Comics (Harvey, 1941 series) #24 (December 1942)

Ibis Meets the Glacier Man (Table of Contents)

Ibis the Invincible / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Kurt Schaffenberger

Inks:

Kurt Schaffenberger

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

occult; superhero

Characters:

Ibis; Taia; The Glacier Man

Synopsis:

Prince Ibis and Taia investigate the mysterious deaths of sailors at the hands of a lone icy survivor of an ancient invasion force of glacier men who killed without mercy.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• from Whiz Comics (Fawcett, 1940 series) #98 (June 1948)

[Battles The Hawkmen] (Table of Contents)

The Jack of Spades / comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Albert Magarian?; Florence Magarian?

Pencils:

Albert Magarian?; Florence Magarian?

Inks:

Albert Magarian?; Florence Magarian?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

The Jack of Spades; Mercuro; The Hawkmen

Synopsis:

A large group of Army nurses are aboard the Albatross, headed for the fighting front, when suddenly they are attached by Hawkmen. They are taken to the den of their leader, Mercuro, who intends to create Hawkwomen out of them! The Jack of Spades intends to stop this fiendish plan.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• from Tops Comics (Consolidated Book Publishers, 1944 series) #2001 (1944)

The Warring Tribe (Table of Contents)

Golden Arrow / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Bernie Krigstein

Inks:

Bernie Krigstein

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

western-frontier

Characters:

Golden Arrow

Synopsis:

As Golden Arrow rides along, he sees smoke signals, indicating a call to war by the Blue Hill tribe. They capture him and only by his quick wits does he escape to warn sleeping settlers and prevent a massacre.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• from Whiz Comics (Fawcett, 1940 series) #98 (June 1948)

Larceny In Liquid (Table of Contents)

Cat-Man and the Kitten / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Charles Quinlan (signed)

Inks:

Charles Quinlan (signed)

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

The Cat-Man; Kitten (not in costume); Mr. Peccary (first appearance; villain)

Synopsis:

The Cat-Man and Kitten must stop a nefarious plot by Japanese in America to disrupt the Allied supply lines by wrecking the Owadi Dam.

Reprints:

• from Cat-Man Comics (Temerson / Helnit / Continental, 1941 series) #v2#7 (20) (October 1943)
• from Cat-Man Comics (Continental, 1941 series) #v2#7 (20) (October 1943)