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Issue: Mystic Comics #6
Publication Date: October 1941
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Issues: #6 of 10 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Timely Comics, Inc.
On Sale Date: 07/31/1941
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 12 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Joe Simon
Disclose 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.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U.S.
Paper Stock: Glossy cover; Newsprint interior
Binding: Saddle-Stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Alex Schomburg
Inker(s): Alex Schomburg
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Destroyer
Character(s): Destroyer [Keen Marlow]
First Line: Never again would the Nazi whip crack, so long as the mighty Destroyer lived!
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Pages: 1
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[A Special Offer for the Readers of Human Torch Comics] (sic)

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Joe Simon; Jack Kirby
Inker(s): Joe Simon
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Captain America Comics; Captain America's Sentinels of Liberty
Character(s): Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bucky Barnes; Red Skull
Synopsis: Ad for Captain America Comics and for joining Cap's Sentinels of Liberty.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover. Given that the version of this promo in the interior of the comic lists the special offer as for readers of Mystic Comics, the mention of Human Torch Comics here is probably an error.
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Meet the Destroyer

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee (signed)
Penciller(s): Jack Binder (signed)
Inker(s): Jack Binder (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Destroyer
Character(s): 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.
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Pages: 15
Disclose 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.
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Special Offer to the Readers of Mystic Comics

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Joe Simon; Jack Kirby
Inker(s): Joe Simon
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Captain America Comics; Captain America's Sentinels of Liberty
Character(s): Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bucky Barnes; Red Skull
Synopsis: Ad for Captain America Comics and for joining Cap's Sentinels of Liberty.
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Pages: 1
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The Scar

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jack Binder ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Destroyer
Character(s): 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.
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Pages: 15
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Identity Unknown

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Mort Leav ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Black Marvel
Character(s): 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.
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Pages: 8
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The Mystic Line-Up

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Destroyer [Keen Marlow]; Black Marvel [Dan Lyons] (origin retold); The Terror (origin retold); Challenger [Bill Waring] (origin retold); Blazing Skull [Mark Todd]
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Stan Lee explains why certain features were chosen for the comic; first 'Bullpen Bulletin' ?
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Dolls of Death

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): The Terror
Character(s): 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.
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Pages: 7
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Al Bare (signed)
Inker(s): Al Bare (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Challenger
Character(s): Challenger [Bill Waring]
First Line: Choose Your Weapons!
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.
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Pages: 8
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Dark Streets of London

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bob Davis
Penciller(s): Bob Davis
Inker(s): Bob Davis
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Blazing Skull
Character(s): 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.
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Credits suggested by the Who's Who and comparison with signed work by Davis elsewhere.
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[untitled]

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Johnson Smith & Company
First Line: 9000 Novelties!
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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Young Allies Comics

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Young Allies Comics #1
Character(s): Young Allies [Bucky Barnes; Toro; Tubby Tinkle; "Knuckles" Percy Bartwell; Washington Vanderbilt Jefferson; Whitewash Jones]; Red Skull
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Includes a reproduction of the cover to Young Allies Comics #1.

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