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Issue: Mystery Men Comics #12 Public Domain
Publication Date: July 1940
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Issues: #12 of 31 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagFox
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Fox Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 05/15/1940
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 14 (13 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Victor Fox
Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1940, New Series, Vol. 35, No. 3.
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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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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: superhero
Character(s): The Blue Beetle [Dan Garret]
First Line: The Blue Beetle grasped the whip and stopped the villain
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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[untitled]

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]; The Sylvanian Consul Secretary (villain, introduction)
First Line: Bomb Kills Hundreds in Midtown!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Though Blue Beetle is not explained as having superpowers until next issue, he may display them here for the first time when he defeats 20 mobsters in one fistfight, when previously he could take two or three mobsters at a time.
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The Giant Airplane Blimp

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, aviation
Character(s): Wing Turner; the Nazis (villains)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
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The Crow from Space

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Rex Dexter; Jan (introduction); Yna (introduction); The Hunter (villain, introduction, death)
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In Content Item: FlagThe Eagle #1 published July 1941
as The Crow From Space [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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The Federal Reserve Robbery

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Walter Frehm
Inker(s): Walter Frehm
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Green Mask [Michael Shelby]; Voss (villain, introduction); Lovensky (villain, introduction); Boris (villain, introduction); Hans (villain, introduction); un-named spies (villains, introduction)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Billy Bounce
First Line: Calling all cars!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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Demons of Doom

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, occult
Character(s): Chen Chang (villain); River Lily (villain)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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Twentieth Century Death Ray

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): B. A. Martin (signed)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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The Stuffed Fish Smugglers

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Character(s): Lt. Drake; Inspector Stevens (cameo); gang of smugglers (villains)
Synopsis: Lt. Drake is assigned the task of capturing the men responsible for smuggling orientals into the United States.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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The Strange Case of the Terror Castle Grave Robberies

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Moth; The Doc (villain, introduction, death)
Synopsis: The Doc sends some of his hoodlums into a cemetery looking for a disease-free body into which he plans to transplant a brain, thus allowing him to have the power of God to create life.
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In Content Item: FlagMen of Mystery Comics #81 published January 2010
as The Strange Case of the Terror Castle Grave Robberies [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: This is the last appearance for this character, who is called "Moth Man" on the cover. The plot of this story just had to have been taken from Mary Shelley's novel, "Frankenstein." NOTE: The strip carries the by-line of "Norman Kingsley", which may have been an editorial alteration of the by-line "Norton Kingsley", which was the pen-name of Chuck A. Winter, who drew The Lynx for Fox in 1941. The editors may have just stuck this by-line on the strip [not unusual in those days]. The Men of Mystery reprint ID's Pierce Rice with the art, but Rice only penciled the strip circa 1941, while Mooney did full art from 1940 into 1941.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Hemlock Shomes
First Line: Gee! Shomes, do you hear that?
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Pages: 2
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Attack in the South Atlantic

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): D-13 [Richard Anthony]; Susan Florenz (introduction); Rico (introduction); Diego (introduction); the Nazis (villains)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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Six Crates for Singapore

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Captain Savage
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
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Zombies of the Bayou

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, occult, superhero
Character(s): Zanzibar; The Zombie Master (villain, introduction)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4

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