Issue | #6 |
Published | October 1941 |
Frequency | bi-monthly |
Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
Pages | 68 |
Editing | Joe Simon |
Notes | MYSTIC COMICS is published bi-monthly by Timely Comics, Inc. at Meriden, Conn. Application for second class entry is pending at the post office at Meriden, Conn., under Act of March 3, 1879. Contents copyright 1941 by Timely Comics, Inc., 330 W. 42nd St., New York, N. Y. Single copies 10¢; yearly subscription 60¢ in the U. S. A. Printed in the U. S. A. October, 1941 issue. |
Characters | Destroyer [Keen Marlow] |
Genre | superhero |
Pencils | Alex Schomburg |
Inks | Alex Schomburg |
Characters | Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bucky Barnes; Red Skull |
Synopsis | Ad for Captain America Comics and for joining Cap's Sentinels of Liberty. |
Pencils | Joe Simon; Jack Kirby |
Inks | Joe Simon |
Notes | Inside front cover. Given that the version of this promo in the interior of the comic lists the special offer as for readers of Mystic Comics, the mention of Human Torch Comics here is probably an error. |
Characters | Destroyer [Keen Marlow] (introduction; origin); Professor Eric Schmitt (introduction; death) |
Synopsis | American reporter Keen Marlow is sent to Nazi Germany to report news other than what the government propaganda department releases. While investigating a prison, he is captured and tortured as a spy. Professor Eric Schmitt is thrown into the same cell with him for refusing to divulge his secret invention, a serum which he gives to Marlow before dying. With his strength enhanced by the serum, Marlow breaks out and creates the identity of the Destroyer, sabotaging Nazi activities and helping innocent Germans. |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Stan Lee (signed) |
Pencils | Jack Binder (signed) |
Inks | Jack Binder (signed) |
Notes | Signed with "by Jack Binder" and "story by Stan Lee". In most later issues, the Destroyer's last name is spelled "Marlowe", but it is "Marlow" here. |
Characters | Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bucky Barnes; Red Skull |
Synopsis | Ad for Captain America Comics and for joining Cap's Sentinels of Liberty. |
Pencils | Joe Simon; Jack Kirby |
Inks | Joe Simon |
Characters | Destroyer [Keen Marlow]; Florence von Banger (introduction; origin) |
Synopsis | The Scar, a Nazi scientist, uses his death ray on Germans protesting food rations. A young woman named Florence von Banger runs up afterward to find her father among the dying, and swears that she will fight the Nazis to avenge him. The Destroyer hears her as he arrives on the scene, and offers to help her, revealing his identity to her. When they hear the Scar is about to use the ray again, the Destroyer goes to stop him even though they suspect it is a trap. |
Genre | superhero |
Pencils | Jack Binder ? |
Characters | Black Marvel [Dan Lyons] |
Synopsis | The Black Marvel's efforts to discover who killed a German scientist who had fled to the U.S. are complicated when one of his main suspects develops amnesia. |
Genre | superhero |
Pencils | Mort Leav ? |
Characters | Destroyer [Keen Marlow]; Black Marvel [Dan Lyons] (origin retold); The Terror (origin retold); Challenger [Bill Waring] (origin retold); Blazing Skull [Mark Todd] |
Script | Stan Lee |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Stan Lee explains why certain features were chosen for the comic; first 'Bullpen Bulletin' ? |
Characters | The Terror |
Synopsis | When the miniaturized dead body of a general is delivered to the President as a doll, the Terror investigates the "Life-Like Doll Company" to prevent any more such bizarre murders. |
Characters | Challenger [Bill Waring] |
Synopsis | The Challenger issues a challenge to a serial strangler to strangle him while he walks unprotected through the city on the night of the next full moon. |
Genre | superhero |
Pencils | Al Bare (signed) |
Inks | Al Bare (signed) |
Characters | Blazing Skull [Mark Todd]; Winston Churchill |
Synopsis | The Blazing Skull is too late to stop German spies from informing their superiors of the Prime Minister's secret flight over their country, so he must go to Germany himself to stage a rescue. |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Bob Davis |
Pencils | Bob Davis |
Inks | Bob Davis |
Notes | Credits from Who's Who (which lists Davis as writer as well as artist) and comparison with signed work by Davis elsewhere. |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Inside back cover. |
Characters | Young Allies [Bucky Barnes; Toro; Tubby Tinkle; "Knuckles" Percy Bartwell; Washington Vanderbilt Jefferson; Whitewash Jones]; Red Skull |
Notes | Includes a reproduction of the cover to Young Allies Comics #1. |