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Issue: Mystic Comics #7
Publication Date: December 1941
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Issues: #7 of 10 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Timely Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 09/30/1941
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 14 (10 stories, 1 cover)
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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. No similarity between any of the names, characters, persons and/or institutions appearing in this magazine with those of any living or dead person or institution is intended, and that any such similarity which may exist is purely coincidental. Printed in the U. S. A.
December, 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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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Destroyer
Character(s): Destroyer [Keen Marlow]; Adolf Hitler
First Line: As the deadly monsters from Hitler's trunk of terror were freed, the Destroyer plunged down!
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In Issue: FlagAction! Mystery! Thrills! Comic Book Covers of the Golden Age: 1933-45 #[nn] published December 2011
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Possible Simon inks per atlastales.com. Previous indexer credited Syd Shores.
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Feature(s): Marvel Mystery Comics #26
Character(s): Sub-Mariner [Namor]
First Line: As New and Exciting as Today's News!
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover. Issue referred to just as "Marvel Comics No. 26" in the large headline (no "Mystery").
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The Machine of Death

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Destroyer [Keen Marlowe]; Florence von Banger; Adolf Hitler
Synopsis: After finding food for a starving German couple, Keen and Florence stumble across a scientist trying out his new death machine. Keen sabotages it, but that gets Florence and him sent to a concentration camp. He escapes, becomes the Destroyer, and shuts down the machine and its creator once and for all.
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Pages: 15
Disclose Notes: The Destroyer's last name is Marlowe in this issue, but was Marlow when he was introduced in #6. Florence was also introduced in #6. Her full name was revealed as Florence von Ward in the next story in All-Winners Comics #2. And now she introduces herself as Florence von Banger, which will be used in the following stories.
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Judge, Juror and Avenger of Evil

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Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Witness
Character(s): The Witness (introduction); Sid Stern (football player, introduction, cameo, death); Mr. Rollins (trucking company owner, introduction); Natas (villain, introduction, death); The League of Blood (villains, introduction for all, some die); Nick, the Gambler (villain, introduction, cameo, death)
Synopsis: The evil Natas directs his League of Blood to commit murders for hire, but a mysterious man known as the Witness sees them and hunts them down, killing them in retaliation and tracing the orders back to Natas.
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Lewis & Sykes

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Black Widow [Claire Voyant]; Satan
Synopsis: Satan sends the Black Widow to claim the souls of Lewis and Sykes, America weapons manufacturers who are selling their weapons to the Axis as well as the Allies.
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Heritage of Destruction

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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Destroyer
Character(s): Destroyer [Keen Marlowe]
Synopsis: While the Destroyer hides out with a man he has rescued from Nazis, he tells the man of when he had to knowingly walk into a trap to prevent innocent German civilians from being executed.
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Disclose Notes: Text story with illustrations.
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A Fight to the Death

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Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Challenger
Character(s): Challenger [Bill Waring]
Synopsis: The Challenger faces a large ape-like man who has changed his career from boxing to crime in hand-to-hand combat.
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Pages: 8
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Looters

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Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Terror
Character(s): The Terror
Synopsis: The Terror hunts down a gang of looters who have decided to hit only small businesses that are less likely to have the sort of security and defenses that banks have.
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Pages: 7
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Ghost-Brought Justice

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Letterer(s): typeset
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The Dweller in the Haunted Cave

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Genres: adventure, fantasy, occult
Feature(s): Davey and the Demon
Character(s): Davey Drew (introduction; origin); Demon (introduction)
Synopsis: Young orphan Davey Drew inadvertently frees the Demon, embodiment of mankind's evil, from his prison in a cave. The Demon swears to destroy humanity, but in return for freeing him he swears not to harm Davey and gives him a cloak that will protect him. Horrified, Davey brings the military to stop the Demon, but succeeds only in driving him off temporarily.
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The Grinner

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Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Black Marvel
Character(s): Black Marvel [Dan Lyons]
Synopsis: Dr. Weems drinks a concoction that he thinks might be a cure for pneumonia, but it instead transforms him into a Mr. Hyde-like monster who becomes known as The Grinner by the local criminals. The Black Marvel must stop him as he tries by intimidation and murder to gain control of prize oil-producing land.
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Museum Robberies

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Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Blazing Skull
Character(s): Blazing Skull [Mark Todd]
Synopsis: Mark Todd (in this story said to be a district attorney) hears of mysterious thefts at an art museum that happen without anyone breaking in to the building. He decides to tackle the case as the Blazing Skull, and realizes that the thief has been hiding out in the museum disguised as a statue during the day.
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Feature(s): Captain America Comics #9
First Line: Smashing Through Again!
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Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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Coming Events

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Feature(s): Sub-Mariner Comics #3
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Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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