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Issue: Men of Mystery Comics #89

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Publication Date: May 2013

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Issues: #89 of 100 Issues (101 Printings)

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Publisher: Flag

Brand: AC Comics

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On Sale Date: 05/08/2013

Volume:

Pages: 144

ISBN:

UPC/EAN: 64924192603008911

Price: $29.95 USD

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Content Items: 18 (17 stories, 1 cover)

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Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color cover; black and white interior

Dimensions: standard Modern Age US

Paper Stock: glossy cover; white interior

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Publishing Format: ongoing series

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16 Content Items from other Issues reprinted as/in this Issue:

Green Giant Comics #1 published January 1940 was [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]

The Funnies #46 published August 1940 was [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)] (in black and white)

Hit Comics #2 published August 1940 was A Town's Ransom [Story on Interior Page(s)]

Hit Comics #2 published August 1940 was The Hospital Grafters [Story on Interior Page(s)]

Hit Comics #2 published August 1940 was The Defeat of Radolf [Story on Interior Page(s)]

Whiz Comics #12 published January 1941 was The Mask's Fifth Column [Story on Interior Page(s)]

Whiz Comics #12 published January 1941 was [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]

Speed Comics #14 published September 1941 was The Sinister Saboteurs [Story on Interior Page(s)]

The Green Mask #9 published February 1942 was Horror Sings a Lullaby [Story on Interior Page(s)]

Cat-Man Comics v2 #10 (23) published March 1944 was Firebrand of Disaster! [Story on Interior Page(s)]

Speed Comics #42 published March 1946 was Vanquish the Vicious V!!! [Story on Interior Page(s)]

Speed Comics #42 published March 1946 was Chins Up, China [Story on Interior Page(s)]

Wow Comics #50 published December 1946 was The Curiosa Club [Story on Interior Page(s)]

Airboy Comics v6 #1 [60] published February 1949 was The Crabmen of Paris [Story on Interior Page(s)] in black & white

Charles Starrett as the Durango Kid #4 published April 1950 was Tracks Across the Trail! [Story on Interior Page(s)]

Doll Man #34 published June 1951 was Treacherous Whirlpool?? [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Content Items (18 total)

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Genres: superhero, war

Character(s): Pat Parker

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Captain Freedom [Don Wright]; the Young Defenders [Lefty; Joanie; Slim; Whitey] (introduction for all); a spy ring [Herr Shnaps; Scarface Malone; others un-named] (villains, introduction for all)

First Line: Wealthy Don Wright, fearless publisher, interests himself in the welfare of his country…

Synopsis: While selling papers, Lefty discovers a nest of spies who have loaded a truck full of TNT to use to blow up a vital war-time factory.

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Tom Darrow (District Attorney); Captain Dooley; Michael (the Red Bee's bee); Al Snead (villain, introduction)

First Line: An influenza epidemic ravages the city!

Synopsis: The Red Bee must combat an influenza plague that infects the city since the hospitals can't afford to give treatment because city coffers have been bled dry by grafting politicians led by Al Snead.

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Pages: 6

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Genres: espionage, superhero

Character(s): Spy Smasher [Alan Armstrong]; Admiral Corby; Eve Corby; The Mask (villain); Reltih (villain, death); Inilossom (villain, pilot); 10-Q (villain)

First Line: While enemy Fifth Columnists seek to destroy…

Synopsis: Spy Smasher, Eve and Admiral Corby are all in on the battle against the Mask's Fifth Columnists, many of whom are hiding in a mountain stronghold, awaiting orders from their leader to attack Washington. However, Spy Smasher has a plan to make the Mask think we have 10,000 robots manning planes that can shoot machine guns and drop bombs!

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Phantasmo [as Phil Anson]; Whizzer McGee; Uncle Ben; Aunt Martha; Whizzer's unnamed sister; Mrs. McGee (Whizzer's mother)

First Line: Possessed of superhuman powers, Phantasmo, Master of Space, returns...

Synopsis: Because of serious flooding occuring in the area of Whizzer's Aunt and Uncle's farm, and the fact his mother and sister are visiting the farm, the lad enlists Phantasmo to go with him to the farm to make sure all is right. Saving all from the flood waters, Phantasmo is then drawn to an explosion at a dam by a crime ring which is determined to take over New York City.

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Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Master Mystic

Character(s): The Master Mystic (introduction); Rango (villain, scientist from Slavonia, death)

First Line: Into a world beset by war, crime, and disease...

Synopsis: Master Mystic must battle a demented scientist who has invented a new drug which transforms him into a giant so that he can exact revenge and lay waste to those countries which thwarted his dream of world domination.

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Pages: 6

Vanquish the Vicious V!!!

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Shock Gibson [Robert Charles Gibson]; Colonel Martin; Dr. Benjamin Bright (scientist-wizard); Ike (Bright's assistant); General Haki (villain, death?); Dr. Kanokai (villain, scientist, death?)

Synopsis: A Japanese scientist discovers a way he believes can neutralize Shock Gibson's amazing powers through the use of mysterious and electronic rays the Allies call a new "V" weapon.

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Pages: 8

The Curiosa Club

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Commando Yank [Chase Yale]; Elmer Hawkins (District Attorney, death); Judge Sanders (death); The Curiosa Club [Snake Larsen; Spade; other member un-named] (villains, introduction for all)

Synopsis: The District Attorney receives a letter from a Judge friend of his, asking him to join him on his vacation. There's only one problem: the Judge has been dead for three days!

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Treacherous Whirlpool??

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; Pinky; Willie

Synopsis: Darrel comes upon a group of boys swimming in a pond, but they refuse to let a youngster join them. When they get caught up in a whirlpool, the youngster dives in to rescue them, and is joined by the Doll Man.

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Pages: 6

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Genres: adventure, aviation

Character(s): Airboy [David Nelson II]; Jacques DeGrasse (French diplomat); Monsieur Reynard (lawyer); Mrs. Reynard; Monsieur Duval (Chief of Police); Alphonse; the Crabmen of Paris [Louis; the Count; the King; Madame Guillotine; others un-named] (villains, all die)

First Line: In response to a frantic wire from his old friend…

Synopsis: Young Jacques tells Airboy secretly that 35 men have disappeared in a span on 10 days, some of them being prominent government officials. Airboy discovers that each of the men were related directly to someone who was a leader of the people in the French Revolution...and Jacques is one as well. And all disappeared in the area of large sewer openings, which could be the hideout of the legendary Crabmen.

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Pages: 14.67

A Town's Ransom

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Writer(s): ? (signed as Gregg Powers)

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Hercules [Joe Hercules]; Mr. Portle (introduction, science teacher); un-named town Mayor; Crinch (villain, introduction, town Board member)

Synopsis: Hercules battles saboteurs who blow up a school and a dam.

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Pages: 7

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Radolf (villain, introduction)

Synopsis: Neon heads for Dunland to free the inhabitants of a concentration camp in Dunland from the evil and tyranical rule of a dictator.

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Pages: 5

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Genres: jungle

Character(s): Dr. Voodoo [Hal Carey]; Nikko (Chief of the White Blanca Indians); Walter Webb (American mining engineer); Maxinya (Webb's daughter); Jappa (Maxinya's pey jaguar); Okoro (villain, medicine man of the Blancas)

First Line: Hal Carey, young American doctor, known to the Blanca Indians as Doctor Voodoo...

Synopsis: Hal and Nikko, while on a hunting trip, discover a diamond mine and diamonds that can be sold and the money used to build a jungle hospital.

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Firebrand of Disaster!

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Genres: aviation

Feature(s): Blackout

Character(s): Blackout [Jack Wayne]; Hans (Blackout's assistant); Captain Green (British POW); Adolf Hitler (villain); Reichsmarshall Herman Göring (villain); Firemaster [Von Flamm] (villain, death); Baroness Brunhilde (villain, mention only)

Synopsis: Göring convinces Hitler to give a man in an insane asylum a chance to build a secret weapon to be used against the Allies, especially since the war is not going well for the Nazis. The weapon is the Liquid Fire Stream, which can be used to envelop enemy aircraft and destroy them. Although Blackout is told about this, to his horror he discovers that the weapon will be tested on an unsuspecting British POW who is allowed to escape.

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Pages: 7

Horror Sings a Lullaby

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): The Green Mask [Michael Shelby]; Domino the Miracle Boy [Don, Shelby's ward]; Olivia Tracy (Shelby's girlfriend); Joseph (Olivia's nephew); Peters (Olivia's chauffeur); John Nemo (villain, introduction); Hawkins (villain, Nemo's servant)

Synopsis: Oliva tells Michael that the court order, awarding her the custody of her nephew, has gone through and she wants him to drive her to the Nemo home to pick him up. When they arrive, Nemo refuses to turn to boy over to her, so the Green Mask and Domino go into action to discover the whereabouts of the boy.

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Character(s): Col. Ilya Diabelov; Josef Stalin; Marshall Timoshenko; The Nazis (villain)

First Line: Synopsis - Cadet Gary Blakely and Cadet Tubby Reynolds are assigned to deliver…

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Chins Up, China!

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Genres: adventure, war

Character(s): Girl Commandos [Tanya; Mei-Ling; Penelope Kirk; Ellen Billings; Pat Parker]; Chang (Mei-Ling's brother); Tsiang; Kwang (villain, torturer); the Japanese (villains, some die)

Synopsis: The Girl Commandos are on the trail of Mei-Ling's brother, being held by the Japanese and soon to be shot.

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Pages: 8

Tracks Across the Trail!

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Genres: western

Character(s): Durango Kid [Steve Brand]; Raider (the Kid's horse); Muley Pike; Pete Lawson (villain)

Synopsis: The Kid and Muley come across a railroad holdup by criminals who are wrecking the engine. As he investigates, the Kid discovers the reason behind these destructive episodes: the cattle ranchers are afraid that the railroads will break up grazing lands and bring in competitors.

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