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Issue Details

Issue #6
Published October 1941
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing Joe Simon
Notes MYSTIC COMICS is published bi-monthly by Timely Comics, Inc. at Meriden, Conn. Application for second class entry is pending at the post office at Meriden, Conn., under Act of March 3, 1879. Contents copyright 1941 by Timely Comics, Inc., 330 W. 42nd St., New York, N. Y. Single copies 10¢; yearly subscription 60¢ in the U. S. A. Printed in the U. S. A. October, 1941 issue.

Cover Details - "Never again would the Nazi whip crack, so long as the mighty Destroyer lived!"

Characters Destroyer [Keen Marlow]
Genre superhero
Pencils Alex Schomburg
Inks Alex Schomburg

1 page Captain America Comics; Captain America's Sentinels of Liberty promo (ad from the publisher) "[A Special Offer for the Readers of Human Torch Comics] (sic)"

Characters Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bucky Barnes; Red Skull
Synopsis Ad for Captain America Comics and for joining Cap's Sentinels of Liberty.
Pencils Joe Simon; Jack Kirby
Inks Joe Simon
Notes Inside front cover. Given that the version of this promo in the interior of the comic lists the special offer as for readers of Mystic Comics, the mention of Human Torch Comics here is probably an error.

15 page Destroyer story "Meet the Destroyer"

Characters Destroyer [Keen Marlow] (introduction; origin); Professor Eric Schmitt (introduction; death)
Synopsis American reporter Keen Marlow is sent to Nazi Germany to report news other than what the government propaganda department releases. While investigating a prison, he is captured and tortured as a spy. Professor Eric Schmitt is thrown into the same cell with him for refusing to divulge his secret invention, a serum which he gives to Marlow before dying. With his strength enhanced by the serum, Marlow breaks out and creates the identity of the Destroyer, sabotaging Nazi activities and helping innocent Germans.
Genre superhero
Script Stan Lee (signed)
Pencils Jack Binder (signed)
Inks Jack Binder (signed)
Notes Signed with "by Jack Binder" and "story by Stan Lee". In most later issues, the Destroyer's last name is spelled "Marlowe", but it is "Marlow" here.

1 page Captain America Comics; Captain America's Sentinels of Liberty promo (ad from the publisher) "Special Offer to the Readers of Mystic Comics"

Characters Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bucky Barnes; Red Skull
Synopsis Ad for Captain America Comics and for joining Cap's Sentinels of Liberty.
Pencils Joe Simon; Jack Kirby
Inks Joe Simon

15 page Destroyer story "The Scar"

Characters Destroyer [Keen Marlow]; Florence von Banger (introduction; origin)
Synopsis The Scar, a Nazi scientist, uses his death ray on Germans protesting food rations. A young woman named Florence von Banger runs up afterward to find her father among the dying, and swears that she will fight the Nazis to avenge him. The Destroyer hears her as he arrives on the scene, and offers to help her, revealing his identity to her. When they hear the Scar is about to use the ray again, the Destroyer goes to stop him even though they suspect it is a trap.
Genre superhero
Pencils Jack Binder ?

8 page Black Marvel story "Identity Unknown"

Characters Black Marvel [Dan Lyons]
Synopsis The Black Marvel's efforts to discover who killed a German scientist who had fled to the U.S. are complicated when one of his main suspects develops amnesia.
Genre superhero
Pencils Mort Leav ?

2 page text article "The Mystic Line-Up"

Characters Destroyer [Keen Marlow]; Black Marvel [Dan Lyons] (origin retold); The Terror (origin retold); Challenger [Bill Waring] (origin retold); Blazing Skull [Mark Todd]
Script Stan Lee
Letters typeset
Notes Stan Lee explains why certain features were chosen for the comic; first 'Bullpen Bulletin' ?

7 page Terror, The story "Dolls of Death"

Characters The Terror
Synopsis When the miniaturized dead body of a general is delivered to the President as a doll, the Terror investigates the "Life-Like Doll Company" to prevent any more such bizarre murders.

8 page Challenger story "Choose Your Weapons!"

Characters Challenger [Bill Waring]
Synopsis The Challenger issues a challenge to a serial strangler to strangle him while he walks unprotected through the city on the night of the next full moon.
Genre superhero
Pencils Al Bare (signed)
Inks Al Bare (signed)

8 page Blazing Skull story "Dark Streets of London"

Characters Blazing Skull [Mark Todd]; Winston Churchill
Synopsis The Blazing Skull is too late to stop German spies from informing their superiors of the Prime Minister's secret flight over their country, so he must go to Germany himself to stage a rescue.
Genre superhero
Script Bob Davis
Pencils Bob Davis
Inks Bob Davis
Notes Credits from Who's Who (which lists Davis as writer as well as artist) and comparison with signed work by Davis elsewhere.

1 page Johnson Smith & Company advertisement "9000 Novelties!"

Letters typeset
Notes Inside back cover.

1 page Young Allies Comics #1 promo (ad from the publisher) "Young Allies Comics"

Characters Young Allies [Bucky Barnes; Toro; Tubby Tinkle; "Knuckles" Percy Bartwell; Washington Vanderbilt Jefferson; Whitewash Jones]; Red Skull
Notes Includes a reproduction of the cover to Young Allies Comics #1.