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Issue Details

Issue #27
Published [December] 2000
Cover Price 6.95
Pages 52
Editing Bill Black (editor); Mark B. Heike (associate editor)

Cover Details - "The Fog Robbers"

Characters The Avenger; Phantom Lady
Genre superhero
Pencils Bill Black (signed)
Inks Bill Black (signed)
Colors Steph Heike

1 page foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Men of Mystery No. 27"

Script Bill Black
Letters typeset

8 page story "Monsieur Gravedigger"

Genre period
Script Jerry DeFuccio
Pencils Reed Crandall
Inks Reed Crandall
Notes originally for EC Comics but never saw print.

4 page Lady Luck story "Bored with New York, debutante Brenda Banks takes a flying trip to the island of Tutuilatai"

Characters Lady Luck [Brenda Banks]; Lord Cyril Pitt; John Crawford
Genre superhero
Script Nick Cardy
Pencils Nick Cardy
Inks Nick Cardy
Reprinted from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series)

10 page Phantom Lady story "A Shroud For The Bride"

Characters Phantom Lady
Genre superhero
Script Ruth Roche ?
Pencils Matt Baker
Inks Matt Baker
Reprinted from Phantom Lady (Fox, 1947 series) #14 (October 1947)

4 page Mr. Mystic story "Arson, Intoxication, Murder and Theft"

Characters Mr. Mystic; Mephistopheles; Arson; Temptation; Intoxication; Murder; Theft
Genre occult
Script ? [ as W. Morgan Thomas]
Pencils S. R. Powell (signed)
Inks S. R. Powell (signed)
Reprinted from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series)

9 page Crimebuster story "The Long Arm of Justice"

Characters Crimebuster; Squeeks
Genre superhero
Script Charles Biro (signed)
Pencils Ralph Mayo ?
Inks Ralph Mayo ?
Reprinted from Boy Comics (Lev Gleason, 1942 series) #101 (May 1954)

5 page Marvelman story "Marvelman and the Electroctopus"

Characters Marvelman
Genre superhero
Pencils Mick Anglo ?
Inks Mick Anglo ?
Reprinted from Marvelman (L. Miller and Son, 1954 series) #304

8 page The Avenger story "The Fog Robbers"

Characters The Avenger [Roger Wright] (Intro); Claire Farrow (his secretary)
Genre superhero
Script Gardner Fox
Pencils Dick Ayers (signed)
Inks Dick Ayers (signed)
Reprinted from The Avenger (Magazine Enterprises, 1955 series) #1 (February 1955)