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Illustration on Cover, Front

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Penciller(s): Jim Mooney [as Mooney] (signed)

Inker(s): Jim Mooney [as Mooney] (signed)

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Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Flash Lightning

Character(s): Flash Lightning [Robert Morgan]; Amy Lane; The Mastermind; The Mummy [Professor Vatz]

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Pages: 1

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Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Jim Mooney (signed)

Inker(s): Jim Mooney (signed)

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Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Flash Lightning

Character(s): Flash Lightning [Robert Morgan]; Amy Lane (scientist); The Old Man of the Pyramids; The Mastermind (villain); The Mummy [Professor Vatz] (villain, death)

First Line: Lightning received the gift of speed, strength and power...

Synopsis: The Mastermind constructs a weird machine in a castle owned by scientist Amy Lane, a machine that attracts lightning into the room it's in and from which the Mastermind can absorb lightning and gain powers similar to those of Flash Lightning. Then he visits the Mummy at a hospital and convinces him to provide him with the villain's radium protective coating and tell him how to use it so that he can protect himself from bullets and other weapons.

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Men of Mystery Comics #29 published January 2001
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Pages: 13

Notes: Mastermind apparently dies at the end of this story, but returns in the next two issues.

Inks credit from article in Alter Ego #133 (June, 2015).

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Genres: superhero

Feature(s): The Raven

Character(s): The Raven [Detective Sgt. Danny Dartin]; Lola Lash (Danny's fiancée); Police Chief Lash (Lola's father); un-named Police Commissioner; Mr. Calhoun (villain, President of the Chasmber of Commerce); Mike (villain)

First Line: Like an avenging angel, the Raven, swoops down upon underworld haunts...

Synopsis: While eating at an lunch wagon, Danny sees people going in and out of a back room, and figures that something illicit is going on. Further investigation uncovers a secret gambling den, which he soon rounds up and has jailed.

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Pages: 10

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Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Harry Anderson

Inker(s): Harry Anderson

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Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Doctor Nemesis Rx

Character(s): Dr. Nemesis [Dr. Jim Bradley]; Mike Johnson (construction foreman); Jake (ambulance driver); Dr. Fowler (surgeon); Tom (small boy); Max McNulty (villain, contractor, death); Al Mirch (villain, McNulty's business partner)

First Line: Young Dr. Jim Bradley, hospital interne, has discovered a truth serum which...

Synopsis: Dr. Nemesis takes on a pair of corrupt building contractors who are using inferior materials in their building projects, causing buildings to collapse unexpectedly.

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Pages: 8

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Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Marvo the Magician and Tito

Character(s): Marvo; Tito (a monkey); June Reeves (manager of a charity vaudeville show); Squire Baxter (villain); Joe (villain); Spike (villain)

First Line: Marvo... magician and master of illusions, while traveling through the country in search of adventure...

Synopsis: While having a flat tire repaired in Pleasantville, Marvo decides to take in a vaudeville show, whose gate receipts go to an orphan's home. When thugs ruin the show by tossing vegetables at the entertainers, Marvo decides to put on his own show!

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Pages: 8

I Knew Buffalo Bill

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): ? [as "Old-Timer"] (signed)

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: biography, western

Character(s): Buffalo Bill Cody (death); Mr. Cody (Buffalo Bill's father, death); Kit Carson; President Abraham Lincoln; Lew Simpson; Jim "Wild Bill" Hickok (death); J. B. Studley (actor); Ned Buntline; Bill Mulligan (buffalo hunter); Billy Comstock; Texas Jack Omohundro; Frank Mordaunt (actor); Mlle. Morlacchi (actress); Harry Mainhall (actor); Jennie Fisher (actress); Lizzie Safford (actress); Eliza Hudson (actress); J. V. Arlington (actor); Major John Burke (Bill Cody's press agent); Mrs. Lew Decker (Bill Cody's sister); Chief Yellow Hand (villain, death)

Synopsis: Detailed biography of Buffalo Bill Cody.

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Pages: 2

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Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Mark Schneider (signed)

Inker(s): Mark Schneider (signed)

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Subject Matter

Genres: jungle, science fiction

Feature(s): Congo Jack

Character(s): Congo Jack; Clem Jones (Jack's friend); the Molemen [Sir Lugi; un-named others] (villains, green men from the bowels of the Earth); Queen Moletta (villain, Molemen's leader)

First Line: In the African Congo, earth suddenly explodes...

Synopsis: In the African Congo, weirdly garbed green invaders burst forth on the scene, killing local natives. One of the escapees alerts Jack and Clem of the danger, and both go to investigate.

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Pages: 10

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Penciller(s): Gus Schrotter

Inker(s): Gus Schrotter

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Subject Matter

Genres: adventure, humorous

Feature(s): Hap Hazard

Character(s): Hap Hazard (copy boy of the Daily Star); un-named Daily Star City Editor; un-named store clerk; un-named boss of the counterfeiters (villain); Bugs (villain)

First Line: Here's the cigars and change of the twenty bucks, chief...

Synopsis: Hap goes down to a local store to buy cigars for his editor, and, when he returns and gives his boss the cigars and change, he is told that one of the bills is counterfeit. Since the city is being flooded with such bills, Hap is told to go back to the store and get a real bill to replace it. When he does, he sees the girl clerk being kidnapped.

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Pages: 6

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Penciller(s): Red Holmdale ?

Inker(s): Red Holmdale ?

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Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Feature(s): Whiz Wilson

Character(s): Whiz Wilson; Professor Morrow (visiting Earthman); Ellen Morrow (his daughter); the Mongolians; the Zanians (villains)

First Line: One day Whiz Wilson sets the dials of his futuroscope to take him to the planet Mongo, in the year 2300...

Synopsis: Whiz sets his Futuroscope to the year of 2300 and is transported to the Planet Mongo, where the four-armed Mongolians consider him, a Professor and his daughter to be their enemies. However, when a balloon corps from an enemy planet attacks, Whiz and company help to overcome them and save Mongo.

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The Big Reward

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Synopsis: The lure of being able to read a copy of Super-Mystery Comics encourages a boxer to win his fight.

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Pages: 1

Notes: A comics form promo for Super-Mystery Comics.
Located on.inside rear cover.