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Issue: Mystery Men Comics #10 Public Domain
Publication Date: May 1940
 
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Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagFox
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Fox Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 03/15/1940
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 14 (13 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On sale date from the publication date and the volume number found at the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 35, 1940, Number 2. Class B periodical. Copyright number B 449437.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: 7 1/2" x 10 1/4"
Paper Stock: Glossy Covers; Newsprint Interior
Binding: Saddle-Stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Format Notes:  
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
?
Subject Matter
superhero
The Blue Beetle [Dan Garret]
Suddenly the Blue Beetle appeared... Was he too late?
Reprinting
FlagThe Complete Jack Kirby #1 published January 1997
as Mystery Men Comics #10 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Joe Simon signed this cover in small letters. To find the signature, start at the woman's head and scan to the right past the smoke. The signature is just above the brown triangle.
The Beetle and the Bombers

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Charles Nicholas (signed)
Charles Nicholas
?
?
Subject Matter
superhero
Blue Beetle [Dan Garrett]; The Yellow Gang (introduction, villain)
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
8
The Prince Otembi Affair: Part 1

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Subject Matter
war
Wing Turner; Prince Otembi (introduction); V: Mahruf-Ali (villain, introduction)
Reprinting
FlagThe Complete Jack Kirby #1 published January 1997
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
3
Invasion of Fire

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
science fiction
Rex Dexter; Flame-Men (from Emalf, introduction, villain)
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
8
The Professor's Blackmail Band

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
?
Subject Matter
superhero
The Green Mask [Michael Shelby]; News Doakes; F. B. Hendrix; Hendrix's daughter; The Professor (villain, introduction, death)
The Professor has tricked four big business men into a phony trust that has led several of them to commit suicide rather than pay up. When a Herman Bates commits suicide, the Green Mask looks into the matter and ferrets out the rats responsible.
Reprinting
FlagThe Green Mask #2 published January 1940
as The Professor's Blackmail Band [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagMen of Mystery Comics #88 published January 2013
as The Professor's Blackmail Band [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
8
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Billy Bounce
Yip-pee-eee!
Reprinting
FlagRex Dexter of Mars #1 published January 1940
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
2
Slaves for Slaughter

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Charles Nicholas ?
?
?
Subject Matter
adventure
Chen Chang
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
6
Death by Electrocution

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Joe Simon ? [as Martin A. Brusten]
typeset
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
2
The Dope Smuggling Gamblers

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
?
Subject Matter
adventure
Lt. Drake
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
5
The Weather Kings

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? [as Norton Kingsley (byline)] (credited)
Greg Chapian
Greg Chapian
?
?
Subject Matter
superhero
The Moth; The Weather Kings (villains, all die)
Arriving in Florida, the Moth runs into a terrible storm and discovers a resident who informs him that a group called the Weather Kings are responsible, and they plan to use the weather to control the nation. Discovering the group's weather plant, the Moth destroys the control board and plant.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
5
Credits suggested by Jerry Bails' Who's Who.
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Hemlock Shomes
I hope I can escape jury duty...
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
2
The Transport Saboteurs

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
? (S. R. Powell byline but after Powell left Fox)
?
?
?
Subject Matter
espionage
D-13 [Richard Anthony]
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
8
Showdown with Sin Lee

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
?
Subject Matter
adventure
Captain Savage; Sin Lee (villain, death)
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
3
The Vanishing Beauties of Ankara

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
? [as George Tuska] (byline only)
?
?
?
Subject Matter
superhero
Zanzibar; Achmed Pasha (villain, introduction)
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
4

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