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Issue: Mystic Comics #7

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Publication Date: December 1941

Issue #7
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Issues: #7 of 10 Issues

Title:

Variant: unnamed

Rating:

Publisher: Flag

Marvel

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

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 14 (10 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s): Joe Simon

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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Format

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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Content Items (14 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Penciller(s): Jack Kirby

Inker(s): Joe Simon ?

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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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Action! Mystery! Thrills! Comic Book Covers of the Golden Age: 1933-45 #[nn] published December 2011

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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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Notes: Inside front cover. Issue referred to just as "Marvel Comics No. 26" in the large headline (no "Mystery").

The Machine of Death

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Stan Lee (signed)

Penciller(s): Al Avison (signed)

Inker(s): Al Avison ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Destroyer

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

Notes: The Destroyer's last name is Marlowe in this issue, but was Marlow when he was introduced in #6.

The League of Blood

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Stan Lee

Penciller(s): Mike Suchorsky

Inker(s): Mike Suchorsky

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): The Witness, Judge, Juror and Avenger of Evil

Character(s): The Witness (introduction); Sid Stern (football player, introduction, cameo, death); Mr. Rollins (trucking company owner, introduction); Natas (villain, introduction); 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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Pages: 7

Lewis & Sykes

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Credits

Writer(s): Stan Lee ?

Penciller(s): Stan Drake (signed)

Inker(s): Stan Drake (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Black Widow

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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Pages: 5

Heritage of Destruction

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Credits

Writer(s): Stan Lee (signed)

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

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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A Fight to the Death

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Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): George Klein (signed)

Inker(s): Mike Sekowsky [as Michael Sekowsky] (signed)

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Subject Matter

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

Looters

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Subject Matter

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

Ghost-Brought Justice

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Writer(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

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The Dweller in the Haunted Cave

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Subject Matter

Genres: 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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Pages: 5

The Grinner

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Al Gabriele (signed)

Inker(s): Al Gabriele (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

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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Pages: 8

Museum Robberies

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Subject Matter

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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Pages: 7

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Feature(s): Captain America Comics #9

First Line: Smashing Through Again!

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Notes: Inside back cover.

Coming Events

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Feature(s): Sub-Mariner Comics #3

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Notes: Back cover.