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Publisher: Marvel

Title: Mystic Comics
Issue: 8
Page Count: 68
Publish Date: March 1942
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Contributors: Editor: Stan Lee ?

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Mystic Comics #8
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Story Title: [ no title ] - cover
Features:Destroyer
Pages:1
Pencils:Al Gabriele (signed)
Inks:Al Gabriele (signed)
Genre:superhero
Characters:Destroyer [Keen Marlowe]


Story Title: Still on top! - promo (ad from the publisher)
Features:Captain America Comics #11
Pages:1
Pencils:Al Avison
Inks:Syd Shores
Genre:superhero


Story Title: The Largest Diamond in the World - comic story
Features:Black Marvel
Pages:12
Pencils:George Klein (signed)
Inks:Howard James (signed)
Genre:superhero
Characters:Black Marvel [Dan Lyons]
Synopsis:The Black Marvel solves a case where a giant diamond in a mine in South Africa kills all who try to remove it.


Story Title: No One Is Safe - comic story
Features:Davey and the Demon
Pages:5
Pencils:Howard James (signed)
Inks:Howard James (signed)
Genre:adventure; fantasy
Characters:Davey Drew; Demon
Synopsis:Davey finds that the Demon has wrecked another town, and tries again to stop him. But he is captured, and the story ends in a cliffhanger with the Demon about to drop Davey in boiling water...


Story Title: The Surprise Success of the Century! - promo (ad from the publisher)
Features:Young Allies Comics #2
Pages:1
Pencils:Syd Shores
Inks:Syd Shores
Genre:superhero


Story Title: Hitler Meets the Destroyer - comic story
Features:Destroyer
Pages:15
Genre:superhero
Characters:Destroyer [Keen Marlowe]; Adolf Hitler; von Maus
Synopsis:The Destroyer takes a job as a waiter at a large hotel in Berlin in order to taunt the Nazis staying there. He frees a British spy being tortured there, which causes a Nazi manhunter named von Maus to be sent to find him. The Destroyer defeats von Maus and uses his coat and hat as a disguise to get to Hitler, whom he humiliates before escaping.


Story Title: The Gems of Doom - comic story
Features:Witness
Pages:7
Pencils:Mike Suchorsky ?
Inks:Mike Suchorsky ?
Characters:The Witness; the Imp
Synopsis:The Witness sees a jewelry store robbery and traces it back to the Imp, a criminal masquerading as a law-abiding pawn shop owner.


Story Title: Death Drews - comic story
Features:The Terror
Pages:7
Characters:The Terror
Synopsis:The Terror discovers that ships supposedly taking refugees from Europe to America are actually abducting them to Africa to build railroads for the Nazis as slave labor.


Story Title: Ghost Story - text story
Pages:1.75
Letters:typeset


Story Title: Statement of Ownership, Management, Circulation, Etc. required by the Acts of Congress of August 24th, 1912 and March 3, 1933 - statement of ownership
Pages:0.25
Letters:typeset
Synopsis:Statement of ownership for Marvel Mystery Comics published monthly at Meriden, Conn. for October 1, 1941. Publisher: Timely Comics, Inc. 330 W. 42nd St. N Y C. Same address given for the Managing Editor and Business Manager. No bondholders.


Story Title: The Thing - comic story
Features:Blazing Skull
Pages:7
Pencils:Syd Shores
Inks:Syd Shores
Genre:superhero
Characters:Blazing Skull [Mark Todd]; Dr. Fear
Synopsis:A hideous man named Dr. Fear is literally scaring citizens to death with his appearance and then robbing them. Mark Todd (in this issue described as an "amateur criminologist") tracks him down as the Blazing Skull and exposes his ruse.


Story Title: League of Crime - comic story
Features:Challenger
Pages:8
Genre:superhero
Characters:Challenger [Bill Waring]
Synopsis:The police ask the Challenger to defeat four master criminals who have banded together as a League of Crime. The Challenger beats the gunman, strong man and fencer at their own specialties, and punches the hypnotist out during the final fight after resisting his commands.


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


Story Title: Get a Daisy Air Rifle With Your Christmas Cash! - advertisement
Features:Daisy Air Rifle
Pages:1
Letters:typeset


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