Issue | #2 |
Published | April 1940 |
Frequency | monthly |
Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
Pages | 68 |
Editing | Joe Simon |
Notes | MYSTIC COMICS published monthly by Timely Publications at 330 W. 42nd St. N. Y. Entered as second class matter December 22, 1939, at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the Act of March 3, 1879. Yearly subscription in U.S. $1.00. Vol. 1, No. 2, April 1940. Entire contents copyright by Timely Publications. Printed in the U.S.A. |
Characters | Dynamic Man [Curt Cowan] |
Genre | superhero |
Pencils | Alex Schomburg |
Inks | Alex Schomburg |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Inside front cover. |
Characters | Master Mind Excello [Earl Everett] (introduction) |
Synopsis | Excello's powers cause him to discover a plot against America while he's returning from Europe on a neutral country's ship. |
Genre | superhero |
Pencils | Arnold Hicks |
Inks | Arnold Hicks |
Notes | Art credits from Jerry Bails's Who's Who. |
Characters | Flexo; Joel Williams; Joshua Williams |
Synopsis | Joel takes the brother's latest invention to Washington but is intercepted by spies, requiring Josh and Flexo to rescue him and retrieve the invention. |
Genre | superhero |
Pencils | Jack Binder (signed) |
Inks | Jack Binder (signed) |
Characters | Dynamic Man [Curt Cowan]; Chief Hopkins |
Synopsis | Dynamic Man thwarts the plans of Dr. Vee, a spy leader sabotaging American infrastructure. |
Genre | superhero |
Pencils | Daniel Peters |
Inks | Daniel Peters |
Characters | Space Rangers [Bob Raleigh; Nibbs] (introduction); Alyse (introduction) |
Synopsis | The Rangers go up against the bandit known as Black Hawk and defeat and kill him with the help of his daughter Alyse. |
Genre | science fiction |
Pencils | Arnold Hicks |
Inks | Arnold Hicks |
Notes | Art credits from Jerry Bails's Who's Who. The teaser for the next story implies that Alyse will appear again but she does not. |
Characters | Blue Blaze [Spencer Keen] |
Synopsis | The Blue Blaze thwarts a scientist who is bombing mines in order to get the mining company to buy his mine safety device. |
Genre | superhero |
Notes | Unlike the Blue Blaze stories in #1 and #4, this is not signed. The Blue Blaze now has a diamond-shaped mark on the forehead of his cowl. |
Script | Ed Herron [as Eddie Herron] (signed) |
Notes | Text with illustrations. |
Characters | Jim "Taxi" Taylor |
Synopsis | After the government laughs off his attempt to donate his wonder car to them, Jim Taylor uses it to disrupt a plan to get America to abandon its neutrality in the war. |
Genre | adventure |
Notes | The foreign nationals in this story are called "Swastikians". |
Characters | Invisible Man [Dr. Gade] (introduction; origin) |
Synopsis | A hit man shoves Dr. Gade into the furnace he's using to try to create new powers to help humankind. He is not killed, but gains the power of invisibility and seeks vengeance on the criminals who tried to kill him. |
Genre | superhero |
Pencils | Newt Alfred |
Inks | Newt Alfred |
Notes | Art credits from Jerry Bails's Who's Who, as the art is very different from the art in the story in issue #4 which is credited to George Harrison. |
Characters | Zara (introduction; origin); Jeff Graves (introduction) |
Synopsis | The colonial commissioner of the jungle territory goes into the jungle to try to stop a war between the native tribes. He encounters Zara, who rescues him gets the tribes to stop fighting and listen. |
Genre | jungle |
Pencils | Newt Alfred |
Inks | Newt Alfred |
Notes | Art credits from Jerry Bails's Who's Who. |
Characters | Dakor; Williams |
Synopsis | Dakor rescues a British consul from Chinese bandits on Borneo. |
Genre | occult |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Inside back cover. |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Back cover. |