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Issue: Mystery Men Comics #9 Public Domain
Publication Date: April 1940
 
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Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagFox
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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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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Lou Fine
Lou Fine
?
?
Subject Matter
science fiction
Rex Dexter
Red Dexter
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Miscellaneous
1
The Blue Beetle -- Kidnapper?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Charles Nicholas
Charles Nicholas
?
?
Subject Matter
superhero
The Blue Beetle
The Blue Beetle [Dan Garret]; Jack Bendon (villain, introduction)
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
8
Girl Flyer Missing

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
? (Floyd Kelly)
?
?
?
Subject Matter
Wing Turner
Joan Farrel (first appearance)
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
5
The Planet That Feared Earth

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Dick Briefer
Dick Briefer
Dick Briefer
?
?
Subject Matter
Rex Dexter
Rex Dexter; Ecaepians (first appearance); Leonardo Da Vinci; Napoleon; Alexander the Great
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
8
Steel Mill Explosion

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Walter Frame
Walter Frame
?
?
Subject Matter
Green Mask
The Green Mask [Michael Shelby]; Von Shlameal (first appearance; villain); Josef (first appearance; villain)
Reprinting
FlagThe Green Mask #2 published January 1940
as Steel Mill Explosion [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagGolden-Age Greats Spotlight #3 published May 2008
as Steel Mill Explosion [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
8
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Fred Schwab
Fred Schwab
Fred Schwab
?
Fred Schwab
Subject Matter
Billy Bounce
Billy Bounce
Gee--nobody knows the hours I suffer...
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Miscellaneous
2
River Lily and the Feted Guests

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Munson Paddock [as Cecilia Munson]
Munson Paddock
?
?
Subject Matter
Chen Chang
Chen Chang (villain); River Lily (villain)
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Miscellaneous
6
The Milk Bottle Bombs

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Klaus Nordling
Klaus Nordling
?
?
Subject Matter
Lt. Drake
Lt. Drake
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
4
The Secret of Wan

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
typeset
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
2
The Disintegrator

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Bob Powell [as S. R. Powell] (signed)
Bob Powell [as S. R. Powell] (signed)
Bob Powell [as S. R. Powell] (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
espionage
D-13, Secret Agent
D-13 [Captain Richard Anthony]; Robert [Bob] Simms; Susan Florenz (villain); Rico (villain, introduction); Diego (villain, introduction); Hans (villain, introduction)
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
7.5
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!
The Phantom of Cadel

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
George Tuska
George Tuska
?
?
Subject Matter
Zanzibar
The Phantom (first appearance; villain; death)
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Miscellaneous
6
Enter: the Moth

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Jim Mooney
Jim Mooney
?
?
Subject Matter
superhero
Moth
The Moth (introduction)
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
7

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