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Publisher: Marvel

Title: Mystic Comics
Issue: 5
Page Count: 68
Publish Date: March 1941
Volume: 1
Contributors: Editor: Joe Simon

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Mystic Comics #5
Owner: walclark

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Story Title: [ no title ] - cover
Features:Black Marvel
Pages:1
Pencils:Alex Schomburg
Inks:Alex Schomburg
Genre:superhero
Characters:Black Marvel [Dan Lyons]


Story Title: Captain America - promo (ad from the publisher)
Features:Captain America Comics #1
Pages:1
Pencils:Jack Kirby
Inks:Joe Simon; Al Liederman; Jack Kirby
Genre:superhero
Characters:Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bucky Barnes; Red Skull


Story Title: The Origin of the Black Marvel - comic story
Features:Black Marvel
Pages:12
Pencils:Al Gabriele
Inks:Al Gabriele
Genre:superhero
Characters:Black Marvel [Dan Lyons] (introduction; origin); Chief Man-To (introduction; death); Running Elk; Dan Lyons; Al; Steve; Mickey; Vannie; Jund
Synopsis:The Black Marvel stops a group of criminals who have sabotaged the power plant to provide cover to steal weapons to set themselves up as the local criminal power. In the middle of this story, we see the Black Marvel's origin as a white man who successfully completes the physical trials to take over the position of the dying chief of the Blackfeet tribe after all of the tribe's braves had failed.


Story Title: The Tempest - comic story
Features:Adventures of Super-Slave
Pages:8
Pencils:Paul Gustavson (signed)
Inks:Paul Gustavson (signed)
Letters:Paul Gustavson
Genre:superhero
Characters:Super-Slave (introduction); Cappy (introduction); Jane (introduction)
Synopsis:Cappy (an elderly fisherman) and his daughter Jane are shipwrecked on an island. Cappy scratches an old bracelet he finds on the beach, releasing the Super-Slave who must now do his bidding. Cappy has him rescue Jane, and later needs Super-Slave's services again after they stumble onto a criminal organization.


Story Title: The Discovery in the Volcano - comic story
Features:Sub-Earth Man
Pages:10
Pencils:Harold De Lay
Inks:Harold De Lay
Genre:superhero
Characters:Bob Roland (introduction); Carol (introduction); Sub-Earth Man (villain; introduction; origin); Flame Men (villains)
Synopsis:Geologist Bob Roland and his fiancée Carol encounter the giant Sub-Earth Man and his Flame Men beneath a volcano. The Sub-Earth Man ruled the Earth before its crust cooled, and he seeks to cause such massive eruptions that the Earth's surface will be suitable for his rule again. Bob offers to tell him where a city is for him to attack, but tricks him into causing an eruption under the ocean. Bob and Carol escape, but the Sub-Earth Man is still a threat.


Story Title: Introducing the Terror - comic story
Features:The Terror
Pages:7
Pencils:Syd Shores (signed); George Klein (backgrounds ?)
Inks:George Klein ? (see notes)
Genre:superhero
Characters:The Terror (introduction; origin); Dr. John Storm (introduction; death)
Synopsis:After witnessing an amazing transformation in his dog, brought on by chemicals, Dr. Storm extracts a serum to grant those powers of fearlessness and a skull-like appearance to a human being. When a man loses control of his car and winds up amnesiac on the doctor's doorstep, Dr. Storm subjects hi to the serum. When gangsters arrive to force Dr. Storm to help them, the stranger wakes up and assumes the ghastly visage of the Terror, killing the thugs. Dr. Storm dies from his wounds, but the Terror vows to continue his fight against crime.


Story Title: The Legend of the Blackfeet - text story
Features:Black Marvel
Pages:2
Pencils:Peter Alvarado [as PA] (signed)
Inks:Peter Alvarado [as PA] (signed)
Letters:typeset
Genre:western-frontier
Characters:Black Marvel [Blackfeet Indian] (introduction); Malcolm Lyons (introduction)
Synopsis:An Indian brave of the Blackfeet tribe with black paint on his face drives off a Comanche raiding party, saving a wagon train including Malcolm Lyons and his family. Malcolm dubs him a Black Marvel.


Story Title: Garvey Lang - comic story
Features:Black Widow
Pages:8
Pencils:Harry Sahle [as Sahle] (signed)
Inks:Harry Sahle [as Sahle] (signed)
Genre:superhero
Characters:Black Widow [Claire Voyant]; Satan
Synopsis:Satan asks the Black Widow to collect the soul of train robber Garvey Lang. She stirs up discontent within his gang, causing the deaths of several of them. Finally, the Black Widow delivers her kiss of death to Lang at a costume ball he threw to celebrate his ill-gotten gains.


Story Title: The Poisoned Children - comic story
Features:Moon-Man
Pages:8
Pencils:Fred Guardineer
Inks:Fred Guardineer
Genre:superhero
Characters:Moon-Man
Synopsis:The Moon-Man goes after a racketeer who bought tainted meat for an orphanage so he could pocket most of the money.


Story Title: The Story of Mark Todd - comic story
Features:Blazing Skull
Pages:9
Pencils:Bob Davis [as Mister X] (signed)
Inks:Bob Davis [as Mister X] (signed)
Genre:superhero
Characters:Blazing Skull [Mark Todd] (introduction); The Leader (clearly intended to be Adolf Hitler)
Synopsis:Mark Todd is on a passenger liner in the Atlantic Ocean when it is attacked by a sub firing torpedoes. To the astonishment of his fellow passengers, he leaps into the water and deflects the torpedo, changing into the Blazing Skull once he is out of the ship's sight. Returning to the ship he finds a cable summoning him to Berlin. His contact in Berlin has located the enemy's secret weapon. The Skull destroys the weapon but is captured. The leader orders him executed, but the Blazing Skull escapes.


Story Title: Pick Your Prize - advertisement
Features:Lancaster County Seed Co.
Pages:1
Letters:typeset


Story Title: [ no title ] - advertisement
Features:Remington Noiseless Deluxe Portable Typewriter
Pages:1
Letters:typeset


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