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Issue: Mystery Men Comics #9 Public Domain
Publication Date: April 1940
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Issues: #9 of 31 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagFox
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Fox Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 02/16/1940
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 12 (11 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Victor Fox
Disclose Notes: On sale date from the publication date and the volume number found at the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 35, 1940, Number 2. Class B periodical. Copyright number B 447095.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: 7 1/2" x 10 1/4"
Paper Stock: Glossy Covers; Newsprint Interior
Binding: Saddle-Stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Format Notes:  
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reprinted 2 times as Content Items in other Issues.
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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Red Dexter
First Line: Rex Dexter spoke with his gun and stopped the ferocious monsters
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Blue Beetle -- Kidnapper?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Charles Nicholas
Inker(s): Charles Nicholas
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Blue Beetle [Dan Garret]; Jack Bendon (villain, introduction)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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Girl Flyer Missing

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (Floyd Kelly)
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Joan Farrel (first appearance)
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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The Planet That Feared Earth

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Rex Dexter; Ecaepians (first appearance); Leonardo Da Vinci; Napoleon; Alexander the Great
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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Steel Mill Explosion

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Walter Frame
Inker(s): Walter Frame
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): The Green Mask [Michael Shelby]; Von Shlameal (first appearance; villain); Josef (first appearance; villain)
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe Green Mask #2 published January 1940
as Steel Mill Explosion [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagGolden-Age Greats Spotlight #3 published May 2008
as Steel Mill Explosion [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Billy Bounce
First Line: Gee--nobody knows the hours I suffer...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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River Lily and the Feted Guests

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Chen Chang (villain); River Lily (villain)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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The Milk Bottle Bombs

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Lt. Drake
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
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The Secret of Wan

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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The Disintegrator

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: espionage
Character(s): D-13 [Captain Richard Anthony]; Robert [Bob] Simms; Susan Florenz (villain); Rico (villain, introduction); Diego (villain, introduction); Hans (villain, introduction)
Synopsis: Agents Bob and D-13 are captured and placed aboard a pocket battleship of the enemy which is stopping Allied ships at sea, taking the crew off and then sinking the vessel in question.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7.5
Disclose Notes: Script credit suggested by the Who's Who.

The last half of page 8 is a house advertisement, making available the first 50 issues of Mystery Men Comics at the cost of 10 issues for 25 cents!
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The Phantom of Cadel

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): The Phantom (first appearance; villain; death)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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Enter: The Moth

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Moth (introduction)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7

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