| Issue | #8 |
| Published | March 1942 |
| Frequency | bi-monthly |
| Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
| Pages | 68 |
| Editing | Stan Lee ? |
| 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 of 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. March, 1942 issue. |
| Characters | Destroyer [Keen Marlowe] |
| Genre | superhero |
| Pencils | Al Gabriele |
| Inks | Al Gabriele |
| Genre | superhero |
| Pencils | Al Avison |
| Inks | Syd Shores |
| Notes | Inside front cover. Includes reproduction of the cover of the issue. |
| 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. |
| Genre | superhero |
| Pencils | George Klein (signed) |
| Inks | Howard James (signed) |
| 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... |
| Genre | occult |
| Pencils | Howard James (signed) |
| Inks | Howard James (signed) |
| Notes | Continued next issue. |
| Genre | superhero |
| Pencils | Syd Shores |
| Inks | Syd Shores |
| Notes | Includes a reproduction of the cover to the issue. |
| 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. |
| Genre | superhero |
| Script | Stan Lee (signed) |
| 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. |
| Script | Stan Lee [as S.T. Anley] (signed) |
| Pencils | Mike Suchorsky ? |
| Inks | Mike Suchorsky ? |
| Notes | Tentative art credits from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo. Jerry Bails's Who's Who also lists Bob Powell as a possible artist for this feature and associates him with the pen name S.T. Anley (Powell's birth name was Stanislav), but Dr. Vassallo disputes both the art credit and the pen name association. Powell is not beleived to have started working for Timely until later in the decade. |
| 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. |
| Notes | The intro blurb on the splash page says that the Terror "[threw] off the cloak of respectability" to fight the Nazis, which is not consistent with his origin three issues ago as an amnesiac used in a science experiment. |
| 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. |
| Script | Abraham Goodman (signed); Bernard Arbital (notary public) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Editing | Martin Goodman (owner; managing editor); Abraham Goodman (business manager) |
| Notes | Statement is *NOT* for Mystic Comics but for Marvel Mystery Comics, at least according to its text. |
| 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. |
| Genre | superhero |
| Pencils | Syd Shores |
| Inks | Syd Shores |
| 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. |
| Genre | superhero |
| Script | Stan Lee [as Neel Nats] (signed) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Inside back cover. |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Back cover. |