Digital Comic Museum - Mystery Men Comics 010


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Issue: #10
Published: May 1940, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing: Victor Fox
Color: Color Dimensions: 7 1/2" X 10 1/4" Paper Stock: Glossy Covers; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-Stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Notes: On sale date from the publication date and the volume number found at the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 35, 1940, Number 2. Class B periodical. Copyright number B 449437.

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)
Featuring:	The Blue Beetle
Credits:	Pencils: Joe Simon ? \| Inks: Joe Simon ?
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	The Blue Beetle [Dan Garret]

Comic Story (8 pages)	The Beetle and the Bombers
Featuring:	Blue Beetle
Credits:	Pencils: Charles Nicholas (signed) \| Inks: Charles Nicholas
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Blue Beetle [Dan Garrett] The Yellow Gang (introduction, Villain)

Comic Story (3 pages)	The Prince Otembi Affair: Part 1
Featuring:	Wing Turner
Credits:	Script: Jack Kirby ?; Joe Simon ? \| Pencils: Jack Kirby \| Inks: Joe Simon \| Letters: Jack Kirby
Genre:	War
Characters:	Wing Turner Prince Otembi (introduction) V: Mahruf-Ali (villain, Introduction)

Comic Story (8 pages)	Invasion of Fire
Featuring:	Rex Dexter
Credits:	Script: Dick Briefer \| Pencils: Dick Briefer (signed) \| Inks: Dick Briefer
Genre:	Science Fiction
Characters:	Rex Dexter Flame-Men (from Emalf, Introduction, Villain)

Comic Story (8 pages)	The Professor's Blackmail Band
Featuring:	The Green Mask
Synopsis:	The Professor has tricked four big business men into a phony trust that has led several of them to commit suicide rather than pay up. When a Herman Bates commits suicide, the Green Mask looks into the matter and ferrets out the rats responsible.
Credits:	Pencils: L. Bing \| Inks: L. Bing
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	The Green Mask [Michael Shelby] News Doakes F. B. Hendrix Hendrix's Daughter The Professor (villain, Introduction, Death)

Comic Story (2 pages)
Featuring:	Billy Bounce
Credits:	Script: Fred Schwab? \| Pencils: Fred Schwab? \| Inks: Fred Schwab? \| Letters: Fred Schwab?
Genre:	Humor
Characters:	Billy Bounce

Comic Story (6 pages)	Slaves for Slaughter
Featuring:	Chen Chang
Credits:	Pencils: Pierce Rice ? (byline Cecilia Munson) \| Inks: Charles Nicholas ?
Genre:	Adventure
Characters:	Chen Chang

Text Story (2 pages)	Death by Electrocution
Credits:	Script: Joe Simon ? [as Martin A. Brusten] \| Letters: typeset

Comic Story (5 pages)	The Dope Smuggling Gamblers
Featuring:	Lt. Drake
Credits:	Pencils: Klaus Nordling \| Inks: Klaus Nordling
Genre:	Adventure
Characters:	Lt. Drake

Comic Story (5 pages)	The Weather Kings
Featuring:	The Moth
Synopsis:	Arriving in Florida, the Moth runs into a terrible storm and discovers a resident who informs him that a group called the Weather Kings are responsible, and they plan to use the weather to control the nation. Discovering the group's weather plant, the Moth destroys the control board and plant.
Credits:	Script: ? [as Norton Kingsley (byline)] (credited) \| Pencils: Greg Chapian \| Inks: Greg Chapian
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	The Moth The Weather Kings (villains, All Die)

Comic Story (2 pages)
Featuring:	Hemlock Shomes
Credits:	Script: Fred Schwab \| Pencils: Fred Schwab (signed Fred) \| Inks: Fred Schwab \| Letters: Fred Schwab
Genre:	Humor
Characters:	Hemlock Shomes

Comic Story (8 pages)	The Transport Saboteurs
Featuring:	D-13
Credits:	Pencils: ? (S. R. Powell byline but after Powell left Fox)
Genre:	Spy
Characters:	D-13 [Richard Anthony]

Comic Story (3 pages)	Showdown with Sin Lee
Featuring:	Captain Savage
Credits:	Pencils: Arturo Cazeneuve ? \| Inks: Arturo Cazeneuve ?
Genre:	Adventure
Characters:	Captain Savage Sin Lee (villain, Death)

Comic Story (4 pages)	The Vanishing Beauties of Ankara
Featuring:	Zanzibar
Credits:	Pencils: ? [as George Tuska] (byline only)
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Zanzibar Achmed Pasha (villain, Introduction)

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