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Issue Details

Issue #11
Published 1998
Cover Price 6.95 USD
Pages 52
Editing Bill Black

Cover Details

Characters Catman; Kitten
Genre Superhero
Pencils Bob Fujitani (signed)
Inks Bob Fujitani (signed)
Reprinted from Cat-Man Comics (Holyoke, 1941 series) #27 (April 1945) [first page only with Golden-Age Men of Mystery logo replacing Catman and the Kitten logo]

1 page text article "Men of Mystery No. 11"

Characters Spitfire Sanders
Genre Superhero
Script Bill Black
Pencils Sam Cooper ?
Inks Sam Cooper ?
Notes Text article containing information on each character (and their story) featured in this issue of Men of Mystery, some additional information on the previous issue and information on the next issue, including a panel from the Phantom Lady story showing how it looked before it was reworked for her story.

9 page Catman and the Kitten story "The Story of Rosetta!"

Characters Catman [Lieut. Dave Merryweather] (origin); Katie Rose [Rosetta, Kitten] (origin); Deacon; Mickey; Lieut. Dave Merryweather; Dave Merryweather (flashback); Antoinette Burotte (Dave's mother) (flashback, death); Tamara; Zeealia; Antoinette's murderer (death)
Synopsis The origin of the Catman and Kitten and the story of how his mother's killer was brought to justice.
Genre Superhero
Pencils Bob Fujitani (signed)
Inks Bob Fujitani (signed)
Reprinted from Cat-Man Comics (Holyoke, 1941 series) #27 (April 1945) [originally in color]

Half page Catman and the Kitten text article "Editor's Note"

Characters Catman
Genre Superhero
Script Bill Black ?
Letters typeset
Notes A small amount of additional information on the Catman series that was not in the Men of Mystery No. 11 article.

8 page Black Terror story "The Model Crimes!"

Characters The Black Terror [Bob Benton]; Tim; Sam Simmons; Audrey Vane; Bob Benton; Monk Malone (death); Marty (death)
Synopsis Monk Malone is crazy about Audrey Vane so he tells her that he'll get her a mink coat so that she'll stay with him rather than Sam Simmons. When Bob Benton hears that Monk is getting her the coat that night he knows that Fabulous Furs is closed so he must be stealing it. The Black Terror and Tim go to the store to stop the robbery but things don't go as planned.
Genre Superhero
Pencils Jerry Robinson (signed)
Inks Mort Meskin (signed)
Editing Ned Pines (original editor)
Reprinted from Exciting Comics (Standard, 1940 series) #64 (November 1948) [originally in color]

7 page Phantom Lady story "Satan's Seal"

Characters Phantom Lady [Sandra Knight]; Comrade X; Sandra Knight; "The Whip"; King Eduardo of Travania; Prime Minister Kantroff
Synopsis Phantom Lady is told that King Eduardo of Travania is being duped by his Prime Minister Kantroff into declaring war on the Allies so she flys to Travania to make sure that King Eduardo is brought to his senses.
Genre Superhero
Script Ruth Roche ?
Pencils Sam Cooper
Inks Sam Cooper
Editing Ruth Roche (original editor)
Notes This story is an edited version of a 10 page Spitfire Sanders story from Spitfire Comics (Elliott, 1944 series) #132 (August 1944).
Reprinted from Phantom Lady (Ajax; Farrell, 1954 series) #5 [1] (December 1954-January 1955) [original title: "Cold War At a Boiling Point", originally in color]

2 page Blackhawk text article "Collector's Corner"

Characters Blackhawk; Vampira; Hitla [Comrade Olga]; Comrade Communa
Genre Adventure; War
Script Bill Black
Pencils Dick Dillin
Inks Chuck Cuidera
Notes Bill Black states that comic books are sometimes incorrectly priced higher for first issues even though later issues usually have better stories. He says that the purpose of this column is to focus on comics that have good stories and art that fall out of the higher price range. He decides to begin with Blackhawk because of the interview with Chuck Cuidera in the next two issues. He then gives a synopsis of three of the Blackhawk stories in Blackhawk (Quality Comics, 1944 series) #97 (February 1956). Included in the article is a reprint of the cover and three panels from the stories that he covers.

21 page Catman and Kit story "The Electronic Monster!"

Characters Catman; Kit; Terry West; Joseph Maletchek; Brutus; Doctor Ivan Claux
Synopsis When Dr. Ivan Claus creates a miniaturized mechanical brain the UN fears that it may be stolen by a country that would use it to threaten the world. The editor of the United Nations Press sends in Terry West to make sure that he has not been approached by a country that would use it to attack others. While talking to who she thinks is the Doctor she finds out that he has already been taken prisoner. When she and the doctor are being kidnapped she presses a button on her bracelet that alerts Catman that she is in danger. Catman and Kit rush to rescue her, the doctor and the mechanical brain.
Genre Superhero
Pencils John Dixon
Inks John Dixon
Reprinted from Catman Comics (Frew Publications, 1958 series) #21 ?

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "Golden Age Greats / Golden Age Men of Mystery"

Script ? (promo copy)
Pencils Various
Inks Various
Notes House ad for Golden Age Greats and Golden Age Men of Mystery comics (and others) detailing the contents of each issue, with reprints of the covers to Golden Age Greats #4,6,8,11,12, Golden-Age Men of Mystery #2, 4-8, Official Golden-Age Hero & Heroine Directory, Senorito Rio TPB, All Hero Retro Annual #1 and Best of the West #1.

1 page Black Terror promo (ad from the publisher) "Warning! You are entering Terror Territory!"

Characters Black Terror; Tim
Genre Superhero
Script ? (promo copy)
Pencils Jerry Robinson (signed)
Inks Mort Meskin (signed)
Notes Advertisement for Black Terror stories in Golden-Age Greats #13 and Golden-Age Men of Mystery #11 using a reprint of a panel from an unknown (to me) story.