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Issue: Mystic Comics #5
Publication Date: March 1941
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Issues: #5 of 10 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Timely Publications
On Sale Date: 12/15/1940
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 12 (8 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: MYSTIC COMICS published monthly by Timely Publications at Meriden, Conn. Entered as second class matter at Post Office at Meriden, Conn, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Yearly subscription in U. S. $1.00. Vol. 1, No. 5, March, 1941. Entire contents copyright 1940 by Timely Publications, 330 W. 42nd St., N. Y., N. Y. Printed in U. S. A.

Joe Simon was serving as an editor on a freelance basis at this time. This issue contains work from Al Gabriele, who was a member of Simon and Kirby's studio and not yet on staff at Timely, indicating that Simon edited this issue.
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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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Assets2
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Black Marvel [Dan Lyons]
First Line: New sensational feature... The Black Marvel
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Pages: 1
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Captain America

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Captain America Comics #1
Character(s): Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bucky Barnes; Red Skull
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover. Captain America is given top billing, but the name "Captain America Comics" does not appear. The date for the new comic book is given as December 20th.
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The Origin of the Black Marvel

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Black Marvel [Dan Lyons] (introduction, origin); Chief Man-To (introduction, death); Running Elk; Al; Steve; Mickey; Vannie; Jund
Synopsis: The Black Marvel stops a group of criminals who have sabotaged the power plant to provide cover to steal weapons to set themselves up as the local criminal power. In the middle of this story, we see the Black Marvel's origin as a white man who successfully completes the physical trials to take over the position of the dying chief of the Blackfeet tribe after all of the tribe's braves had failed.
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In Content Item: FlagMarvel Super-Heroes #15 published July 1968
as The Origin of the Black Marvel [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
Disclose Notes: Note that some sources claim that Stan Lee co-created the Black Marvel, but Lee's first writing credit for a text filler, has been established as being in Captain America Comics #3, with his first comic scripting credit a few issues after that.
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The Tempest

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Adventures of Super-Slave
Character(s): Super-Slave (introduction); Cappy (introduction); Jane (introduction)
Synopsis: Cappy (an elderly fisherman) and his daughter Jane are shipwrecked on an island. Cappy scratches an old bracelet he finds on the beach, releasing the Super-Slave who must now do his bidding. Cappy has him rescue Jane, and later needs Super-Slave's services again after they stumble onto a criminal organization.
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: There is a teaser for another Super-Slave story next issue, but it never appeared.

All Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson.
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The Discovery in the Volcano

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Sub-Earth Man
Character(s): Bob Roland (introduction); Carol (introduction); Sub-Earth Man (villain; introduction; origin); Flame Men (villains)
Synopsis: Geologist Bob Roland and his fiancée Carol encounter the giant Sub-Earth Man and his Flame Men beneath a volcano. The Sub-Earth Man ruled the Earth before its crust cooled, and he seeks to cause such massive eruptions that the Earth's surface will be suitable for his rule again. Bob offers to tell him where a city is for him to attack, but tricks him into causing an eruption under the ocean. Bob and Carol escape, but the Sub-Earth Man is still a threat.
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Pages: 10
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Introducing the Terror

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Terror
Character(s): The Terror (introduction; origin); Dr. John Storm (introduction; death)
Synopsis: After witnessing an amazing transformation in his dog, brought on by chemicals, Dr. Storm extracts a serum to grant those powers of fearlessness and a skull-like appearance to a human being. When a man loses control of his car and winds up amnesiac on the doctor's doorstep, Dr. Storm subjects hi to the serum. When gangsters arrive to force Dr. Storm to help them, the stranger wakes up and assumes the ghastly visage of the Terror, killing the thugs. Dr. Storm dies from his wounds, but the Terror vows to continue his fight against crime.
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Pages: 7
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The Legend of the Blackfeet

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Character(s): Black Marvel [Blackfeet Indian] (introduction); Malcolm Lyons (introduction)
Synopsis: An Indian brave of the Blackfeet tribe with black paint on his face drives off a Comanche raiding party, saving a wagon train including Malcolm Lyons and his family. Malcolm dubs him a Black Marvel.
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Text with illustrations. Statement of ownership appears at the bottom of the 2nd page.
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Garvey Lang

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Black Widow [Claire Voyant]; Satan
Synopsis: Satan asks the Black Widow to collect the soul of train robber Garvey Lang. She stirs up discontent within his gang, causing the deaths of several of them. Finally, the Black Widow delivers her kiss of death to Lang at a costume ball he threw to celebrate his ill-gotten gains.
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Pages: 8
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The Poisoned Children

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Moon-Man
Character(s): Moon-Man
Synopsis: The Moon-Man goes after a racketeer who bought tainted meat for an orphanage so he could pocket most of the money.
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Only golden age appearance. Next appearance in All-Winners Squad: Band of Heroes (Marvel, 2011 series) #2.
Plot and some dialogue/layouts lifted from the Face story in Big Shot Comics (Columbia, 1940 series) #1 (May 1940).
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The Story of Mark Todd

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Blazing Skull
Character(s): Blazing Skull [Mark Todd] (introduction); The Leader (clearly intended to be Adolf Hitler)
Synopsis: Mark Todd is on a passenger liner in the Atlantic Ocean when it is attacked by a sub firing torpedoes. To the astonishment of his fellow passengers, he leaps into the water and deflects the torpedo, changing into the Blazing Skull once he is out of the ship's sight. Returning to the ship he finds a cable summoning him to Berlin. His contact in Berlin has located the enemy's secret weapon. The Skull destroys the weapon but is captured. The leader orders him executed, but the Blazing Skull escapes.
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Pages: 9
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Pick Your Prize

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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First Line: This Beautiful Desk for Only $1.00
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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