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Issue Details

Issue #7
Published December 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. No similarity between any of the names, characters, persons and/or institutions appearing in this magazine with those of any living or dead person or institution is intended, and that any such similarity which may exist is purely coincidental. Printed in the U. S. A. December, 1941 issue.

Cover Details - "As the deadly monsters from Hitler's trunk of terror were freed, the Destroyer plunged down!"

Characters Destroyer [Keen Marlow]; Adolf Hitler
Genre superhero
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Syd Shores ?

1 page Marvel Mystery Comics #26 promo (ad from the publisher) "As New and Exciting as Today's News!"

Characters Sub-Mariner [Namor]
Notes Inside front cover. Issue referred to just as "Marvel Comics No. 26" in the large headline (no "Mystery").

15 page Destroyer story "The Machine of Death"

Characters Destroyer [Keen Marlowe]; Florence von Banger; Adolf Hitler
Synopsis After finding food for a starving German couple, Keen and Florence stumble across a scientist trying out his new death machine. Keen sabotages it, but that gets Florence and him sent to a concentration camp. He escapes, becomes the Destroyer, and shuts down the machine and its creator once and for all.
Genre superhero
Script Stan Lee (signed)
Pencils Al Avison (signed)
Inks Al Avison ?
Notes The Destroyer's last name is Marlowe in this issue, but was Marlow when he was introduced in #6.

7 page Witness story "The League of Blood"

Characters The Witness (introduction)
Synopsis The evil Natas directs his League of Blood to commit murders for hire, but a mysterious man known as the Witness sees them and hunts them down, killing them in retaliation and tracing the orders back to Natas.
Genre superhero
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Mike Suchorsky ?
Inks Mike Suchorsky ?
Notes Art credits from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo

5 page Black Widow story "Lewis & Sykes"

Characters Black Widow [Claire Voyant]; Satan
Synopsis Satan sends the Black Widow to claim the souls of Lewis and Sykes, America weapons manufacturers who are selling their weapons to the Axis as well as the Allies.
Genre superhero
Script Stan Lee ?
Pencils Stan Drake
Inks Stan Drake

2 page Destroyer text story "Heritage of Destruction"

Characters Destroyer [Keen Marlowe]
Synopsis While the Destroyer hides out with a man he has rescued from Nazis, he tells the man of when he had to knowingly walk into a trap to prevent innocent German civilians from being executed.
Genre superhero
Script Stan Lee
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with illustrations.

8 page Challenger story "A Fight to the Death"

Characters Challenger [Bill Waring]
Synopsis The Challenger faces a large ape-like man who has changed his career from boxing to crime in hand-to-hand combat.
Genre superhero
Pencils George Klein (signed)
Inks Mike Sekowsky (signed)
Notes Ger Apeldoorn notes at atlastales.com that Sekowsky usually penciled but the art does not look like his. Klein's signature comes first.

7 page Terror, The story "Looters"

Characters The Terror
Synopsis The Terror hunts down a gang of looters who have decided to hit only small businesses that are less likely to have the sort of security and defenses that banks have.
Genre superhero

1 page text story "Ghost-Brought Justice"

Letters typeset

5 page Davey and the Demon story "The Dweller in the Haunted Cave"

Characters Davey Drew (introduction; origin); Demon (introduction)
Synopsis Young orphan Davey Drew inadvertently frees the Demon, embodiment of mankind's evil, from his prison in a cave. The Demon swears to destroy humanity, but in return for freeing him he swears not to harm Davey and gives him a cloak that will protect him. Horrified, Davey brings the military to stop the Demon, but succeeds only in driving him off temporarily.
Genre occult

8 page Black Marvel story "The Grinner"

Characters Black Marvel [Dan Lyons]
Synopsis Dr. Weems drinks a concoction that he thinks might be a cure for pneumonia, but it instead transforms him into a Mr. Hyde-like monster who becomes known as The Grinner by the local criminals. The Black Marvel must stop him as he tries by intimidation and murder to gain control of prize oil-producing land.
Genre superhero
Pencils Al Gabriele (signed)
Inks Al Gabriele (signed)

7 page Blazing Skull story "Museum Robberies"

Characters Blazing Skull [Mark Todd]
Synopsis Mark Todd (in this story said to be a district attorney) hears of mysterious thefts at an art museum that happen without anyone breaking in to the building. He decides to tackle the case as the Blazing Skull, and realizes that the thief has been hiding out in the museum disguised as a statue during the day.
Genre superhero

1 page Captain America Comics #9 promo (ad from the publisher) "Smashing Through Again!"

Notes Inside back cover.

1 page Sub-Mariner Comics #3 promo (ad from the publisher) "Coming Events"

Notes Back cover.