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Issue: Men of Mystery Comics #29
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Publisher: FlagAC
Brand: AC ComicsView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: AC Comics
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Volume: none
Pages: 52
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UPC/EAN: none
Price: $6.95 USD
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Content Items: 12 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Bill Black
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color cover; black and white interior
Dimensions: standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; white interior
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Publishing Format: ongoing series
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
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Adult Image
Title Page
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
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Subject Matter
superhero
Wildfire; Lash Lightning
Wildfire [Carol Vance]; Lash Lightning
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An Old Favorite Returns!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Bill Black
Bill Black
typeset
Subject Matter
Good Girl Art Quarterly
Sheena
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Inside front cover. Promo for Good Girl Art Quarterly #19, with cover depicted.
About This Issue

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Mark G. Heike (signed)
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Comments on the stories in the issue, with two panel reprints
The Fire Cult

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Robert Turner [as Robt. Turner]
Jim Mooney
Jim Mooney
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Subject Matter
superhero
Wildfire
Wildfire [Carol Vance]; The Fire-Devil
The Fire-Devil spreads terror in Pleasantville with his armored flame-thrower.
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FlagSmash Comics #27 published October 1941
was The Fire Cult [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Note printed in this issue says the story is reprinted from Smash Comics #31, but it is wrong.
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Jim Mooney (signed)
Jim Mooney (signed)
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Subject Matter
superhero
Flash Lightning
Flash Lightning [Lash Lightning]; Mastermind; The Mummy [Professor Vatz] (death); Amy Lane; Old Man of the Pyramids
On a lonely country road in the mountains...
The Mastermind invents a machine to give him lightning powers. He allies himself with the Mummy to try to learn the secret of his radium-coated bandages, but kills him in a fit of anger. Later Mastermind helps foreign agents sabotage defense plants.
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FlagLightning Comics v2 #1 published June 1941
was [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Title character is just referred to as "Lightning" in the story, with "Flash" apparently a late addition to the logo. Story signed by Mooney in panel seven of page seven.
Interview With Jim Mooney

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Mark G. Heike
Jim Mooney
Jim Mooney
typeset
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Miscellaneous
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Interview with comics artist Jim Mooney, with covers, panels, and other illustrations
Wildfire 2001

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Mark G. Heike
Jim Mooney
Mark G. Heike
typeset
Subject Matter
superhero
Wildfire
Wildfire [Carol Vance]
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An updated version of the Golden Age Wildfire.
The Stolen Battleship Plans

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Alex Blum
Alex Blum
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Subject Matter
superhero
Samson and David
Samson; David
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FlagFantastic Comics #20 published July 1941
was The Stolen Battleship Plans [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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From the Moth to the Lynx

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Pierce Rice ?
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typeset
Subject Matter
The Moth; The Lynx
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Miscellaneous
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Theories on how Jim Mooney's "The Moth" story ended up being published as "The Lynx."
The Coming of the Lynx

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Jim Mooney
Jim Mooney
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Subject Matter
superhero
The Lynx with Blackie the Mystery Boy
The Lynx; Blackie
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FlagMystery Men Comics #13 published August 1940
was The Coming of the Lynx [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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AC Back Issue

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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typeset
Subject Matter
AC Comics
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Miscellaneous
1
Inside back cover. Listing of back issues available from AC Comics, Longwood, Fla.
Coming from AC Comics!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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(various)
(various)
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typeset
Subject Matter
AC Comics
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Miscellaneous
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Back cover. Promo for Good Girl Art Quarterly #19, Femforce Uncut, and Best of the West #20, with covers depicted.

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