Issue | #14 |
Published | 1999 |
Cover Price | 6.95 USD |
Pages | 52 |
Editing | Bill Black |
Characters | Minute Man; Commando Yank |
Genre | Superhero |
Pencils | Charles Sultan |
Inks | Charles Sultan |
Characters | Captain Midnight; Spy Smasher |
Genre | Superhero |
Pencils | Don Newton |
Inks | Bill Black |
Characters | Minute Man [Jack Weston]; Jonas Progg; Herr Gerst; Herr Goebbels; General Milton; Jack Weston |
Synopsis | Jonas Progg owned art treausures that were stolen by the Nazis. Minute Man goes to Berlin to steal them back so that Jonas can sell them for War Bonds. |
Genre | Superhero |
Pencils | Phil Bard |
Inks | Phil Bard |
Editing | Rod Reed (original editor) |
Reprinted | from America's Greatest Comics (Fawcett, 1941 series) #7 (Spring 1943) [-pages 14 & 15, original title: "Minute Man in Berlin", originally in color] |
Script | Bill Black ? |
Letters | Typeset |
Notes | Text article with the history of Fawcett Comics and containing information on each character featured in this issue of Men of Mystery, with a short promo for next issue's contents. |
Notes | Information that the newsletter FCA-Fawcett Collectors of America will continue in Alter Ego Volume 3, No. 1 and information on how to subscribe. |
Characters | Commando Yank; Vandermeer; Baron Glutz |
Synopsis | While working with the underground in Holland Commando Yank is given a pipe that has the complete data on Nazi defenses in Holland. Unfortunately, Commando Yank is captured and has to figure out a way to get the pipe back for the United States and stop a dyke from being destroyed. |
Genre | Superhero |
Editing | Rod Reed (original editor) |
Reprinted | from America's Greatest Comics (Fawcett, 1941 series) #7 (Spring 1943) [originally in color] |
Characters | Ibis the Invincible; Taia; Santa Claus's reindeer & sleigh; Nanoki, polar bear god |
Synopsis | When an ongoing story on the legend of the Ghost Ship threatens to break up another date between Ibis and Taia Ibis teleports them both to the ship so that Taia can get her story fast and still make their dinner date. |
Genre | Occult; Superhero |
Editing | Mercedes Shull (original editor) |
Reprinted | from Whiz Comics (Fawcett, 1940 series) #141 (January 1952) [originally in color] |
Characters | Golden Arrow; White Wind; Jeb Cranford (death); Lan Clagg; Joe Brent |
Synopsis | When Golden Arrow finds out that his friends the Muraki Indian tribe are being accused of killing folk in Lone Pine he decides to get to the bottom of what's going on. |
Genre | Western |
Pencils | Dick Giordano (signed) |
Inks | Vince Alascia (signed) |
Editing | Burton N. Levey (original editor) |
Reprinted | from Cowboy Western (Charlton, 1954 series) #49 (May-June 1954) [originally in color] |
Characters | Bulletman [Jim Barr]; Bulletgirl [Susan Kent]; Frank Arby; Bates (death); Carter (death); Denise; Lieutenant Kent; Jim Barr; Susan Kent; Judge Rater |
Synopsis | Three of the four people in a partnership to own a curio shop throw out the fourth person who put up all of the money to buy the shop. Because there was no contract he can't do anything legally but he threatens to kill the other three. When two of them end up dead Bulletman and Bulletgirl must catch the killer before they can escape into Mexico. |
Genre | Superhero |
Pencils | Bill Ward |
Inks | Bill Ward |
Editing | Virginia Provisiero (original editor) |
Reprinted | from Master Comics (Fawcett, 1940 series) #100 (February 1949) [originally in color] |
Genre | Superhero |
Script | Bill Black |
Pencils | Kurt Schaffenberger |
Inks | Kurt Schaffenberger |
Notes | The article begins with a history of Fawcett's comics that revolved around Captain Marvel and his family and some discussion on the lawsuit with DC concerning Captain Marvel. Then there is a synopsis of the stories in The Marvel Family (Fawcett, 1945 series) #89 (January 1954), along with an illustration from the cover, one from an interior story, one from The Marvel Family (Fawcett, 1945 series) #22 (April 1948) and one unidentified one. |
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 #4,6,8,11-13, Golden-Age Men of Mystery #2, 4-8, 10 and 11, Official Golden-Age Hero & Heroine Directory, Senorito Rio TPB, All Hero Retro Annual #1, Best of the West #1, Western Sampler and Roy Rogers Western #1. |
Script | ? (promo copy) |
Pencils | Jack Kirby; ?; Alex Schomburg; Frank Frazetta; ? (photos) |
Inks | Bill Black; ?; Alex Schomburg; Frank Frazetta; ? (photos) |
Notes | Promos for upcoming AC Comics using the front covers of Golden-Age Men of Mystery #15, Golden-Age Men of Mystery #16, Golden Age Greats #14, The Haunted Horseman #1 and Best of the West #4. |