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Issue: Mystic Comics #8
Publication Date: March 1942
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Issues: #8 of 10 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Timely Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 12/28/1941
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 14 (8 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
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 of 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.
March, 1942 issue.

The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1942, New Series, Vol. 37, No. 1. Class B periodical. Copyright registration number B 527541.
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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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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Destroyer
Character(s): Destroyer [Keen Marlowe]
First Line: With doom on all sides the Destroyer plunged into the terror den!
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Pages: 1
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Still on top!

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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Captain America Comics #11
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover. Includes reproduction of the cover of the issue.
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The Largest Diamond in the World

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Black Marvel
Character(s): Black Marvel [Dan Lyons]
Synopsis: The Black Marvel solves a case where a giant diamond in a mine in South Africa kills all who try to remove it.
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Pages: 12
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No One Is Safe

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, fantasy, occult
Feature(s): Davey and the Demon
Character(s): Davey Drew; Demon
Synopsis: Davey finds that the Demon has wrecked another town, and tries again to stop him. But he is captured, and the story ends in a cliffhanger with the Demon about to drop Davey in boiling water...
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Continued next issue.
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The Surprise Success of the Century!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Young Allies Comics #2
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Includes a reproduction of the cover to the issue.
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Hitler Meets the Destroyer

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Destroyer [Keen Marlowe]; Adolf Hitler; von Maus
Synopsis: The Destroyer takes a job as a waiter at a large hotel in Berlin in order to taunt the Nazis staying there. He frees a British spy being tortured there, which causes a Nazi manhunter named von Maus to be sent to find him. The Destroyer defeats von Maus and uses his coat and hat as a disguise to get to Hitler, whom he humiliates before escaping.
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Pages: 15
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The Gems of Doom

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Subject Matter
Feature(s): Witness
Character(s): The Witness; the Imp
Synopsis: The Witness sees a jewelry store robbery and traces it back to the Imp, a criminal masquerading as a law-abiding pawn shop owner.
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Pages: 7
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Death Drews

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Feature(s): The Terror
Character(s): The Terror
Synopsis: The Terror discovers that ships supposedly taking refugees from Europe to America are actually abducting them to Africa to build railroads for the Nazis as slave labor.
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: The intro blurb on the splash page says that the Terror "[threw] off the cloak of respectability" to fight the Nazis, which is not consistent with his origin three issues ago as an amnesiac used in a science experiment.
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Ghost Story

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1.75
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Statement of Ownership, Management, Circulation, Etc. required by the Acts of Congress of August 24th, 1912 and March 3, 1933

Statement of Ownership  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Synopsis: Statement of ownership for Marvel Mystery Comics published monthly at Meriden, Conn. for October 1, 1941. Publisher: Timely Comics, Inc. 330 W. 42nd St. N Y C. Same address given for the Managing Editor and Business Manager. No bondholders.
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Pages: 0.25
Disclose Notes: Statement is *NOT* for Mystic Comics but for Marvel Mystery Comics, at least according to its text.
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The Thing

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Blazing Skull
Character(s): Blazing Skull [Mark Todd]; Dr. Fear
Synopsis: A hideous man named Dr. Fear is literally scaring citizens to death with his appearance and then robbing them. Mark Todd (in this issue described as an "amateur criminologist") tracks him down as the Blazing Skull and exposes his ruse.
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Pages: 7
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League of Crime

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Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Challenger
Character(s): Challenger [Bill Waring]
Synopsis: The police ask the Challenger to defeat four master criminals who have banded together as a League of Crime. The Challenger beats the gunman, strong man and fencer at their own specialties, and punches the hypnotist out during the final fight after resisting his commands.
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Pages: 8
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[untitled]

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Remington Deluxe Noiseless Portable Typewriter
First Line: This Beautiful Desk for Only $1.00
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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Get a Daisy Air Rifle With Your Christmas Cash!

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Daisy Air Rifle
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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