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Issue: Men of Mystery Comics #88
Publication Date: January 2013
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Issues: #88 of 98 Issues (99 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagAC
Brand: AC ComicsView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Nightveil Media
On Sale Date: 01/09/2013
Volume:
Pages: 144
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 64924192603006811
Price: $29.95 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 18 (16 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: Indicia title: Men of Mystery Collection.

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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color cover; black and white interior
Dimensions: standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; white interior
Binding:  
Publishing Format: ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Mr. Scarlet
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Mad Drama of the Hunted Hunter

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Otto Binder
Penciller(s): Jack Binder
Inker(s): Jack Binder
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Mr. Scarlet and Pinky
Character(s): 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!
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagWow Comics #18 published October 1943
was The Mad Drama of the Hunted Hunter [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
Disclose Notes: Art credits by Bill Black.
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The Laughing Robin Hood

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Nick Cardy
Inker(s): Nick Cardy
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Quicksilver
Character(s): Quicksilver [Max]; Tony Sinn and hig gang (first appearance; villains)
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagNational Comics #7 published January 1941
was Crime at the State Fair [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: AC credits art to Paul Gustavson, though by-lined Nick Cardy.
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The Beasts of Berlin

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Toni Blum [as Lance Blackwood] (signed)
Penciller(s): Fred Guardineer
Inker(s): Fred Guardineer
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Merlin the Magician
Character(s): 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!
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagNational Comics #26 published November 1942
was The U-Boat [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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The Carnival Around the Corner

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Charles Nicholas
Inker(s): Charles Nicholas
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Blue Beetle
Character(s): The Blue Beetle [Dan Garrett]; Von Heuger (villain, introduction)
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagMystery Men Comics #6 published January 1940
was Fiends at the Fair [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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The Professor's Blackmail Band

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? [as Walter Frehm]
Inker(s): ? [as Walter Frehm]
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Green Mask
Character(s): 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.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagMystery Men Comics #10 published May 1940
was The Professor's Blackmail Band [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stephen Douglas
Penciller(s): Jimmy Thompson
Inker(s): Jimmy Thompson
Letterer(s): Jimmy Thompson
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Music Master
Character(s): 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)
First Line: Death, disaster, and destruction sweep over America...
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.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagHeroic Comics #23 published March 1944
was [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Rudy Palais
Inker(s): Rudy Palais
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Stormy Foster
First Line: A trail of blood, which led around two thirds of the globe...
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagHit Comics #31 published January 1944
was The Siamese Cat Statue [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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The Mystery of the Leprechauns

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jack Binder
Inker(s): Jack Binder
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Marvelette [Mary Marvel]
Character(s): 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.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagThe Marvel Family #22 published April 1948
was The Mystery of the Leprechauns [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Slightly revised Mary Marvel story.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Ted Udall
Penciller(s): Bernard Klein
Inker(s): Bernard Klein
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Unknown
Character(s): The Unknown; Herr Raval
First Line: In ravaged Holland, three Gestapo agents...
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.
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From Content Item: FlagNational Comics #26 published November 1942
was [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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Origin of British Agent 99

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as William Churchill, Jr.]
Penciller(s): Arturo Cazeneuve
Inker(s): Arturo Cazeneuve
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, war
Feature(s): British Agent 99
Character(s): 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.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagPocket Comics #1 published August 1941
was [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]black and white
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Harry G. Peter
Inker(s): Harry G. Peter
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Man O' Metal
Character(s): Man O' Metal [Pat Dempsey]; Wade Ferris (President of Magatex Steel Company); Nels (coal miner); Toad Harper (villain, local union boss)
First Line: The 'Black Diamond Mine', best anthracite producer...
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.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagHeroic Comics #23 published March 1944
was [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Art credits by Bill Black.
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The Man Who Looked Into the Future!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Arturo Cazeneuve (signed)
Inker(s): Arturo Cazeneuve (signed)
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Zebra
Character(s): 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.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagGreen Hornet Comics #16 published January 1944
was The Man Who Looked Into the Future! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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Ambassador to Pluto

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bill Woolfolk
Penciller(s): Joe Certa
Inker(s): Joe Certa
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Kid Marvel [Captain Marvel, Jr.]
Character(s): Kid Marvel
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagCaptain Marvel Jr. #111 published July 1952
was Ambassador to Pluto [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: A slightly modified Captain Marvel, Jr. reprint.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): R. S. Callender (signed)
Penciller(s): Erwin L. Hess ?
Inker(s): Erwin L. Hess ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): The Black Knight
Character(s): 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)
First Line: Hunting boar in a remote section of England...
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.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagThe Funnies #45 published July 1940
was "Hunting boar in a remote section of England..." [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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The Undertaker and Tom Thumb

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): John Spranger
Inker(s): John Spranger
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Doll Man
Character(s): 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!
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagDoll Man #28 published May 1950
was The Undertaker and Tom Thumb [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Art credits from Bill Black.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): R. S. Callender (signed)
Penciller(s): E. C. Stoner
Inker(s): E. C. Stoner
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Phantasmo
First Line: High on top of the world's highest mountain...
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagThe Funnies #45 published July 1940
was [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 16
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Back Cover

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): Al Bryant
Inker(s): Al Bryant
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Doll Man
Character(s): Doll Man [Darrel Dane]
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagDoll Man #11 published January 1946
was The Doll Man Socks Crime Square in the Eye [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1

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