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Issue: Mystery Men Comics #10 Public Domain
Publication Date: May 1940
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Issues: #10 of 31 Issues
Title:
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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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Blue Beetle [Dan Garret]
First Line: Suddenly the Blue Beetle appeared... Was he too late?
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In Content Item: 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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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: 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.
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The Beetle and the Bombers

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

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

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

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Green Mask [Michael Shelby]; News Doakes; F. B. Hendrix; Hendrix's daughter; The Professor (villain, introduction, death)
Synopsis: 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.
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In Content Item: FlagThe Green Mask #2 published January 1940
as The Professor's Blackmail Band [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMen of Mystery Comics #88 published January 2013
as The Professor's Blackmail Band [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Billy Bounce
First Line: Yip-pee-eee!
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In Content Item: FlagRex Dexter of Mars #1 published January 1940
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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Slaves for Slaughter

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Inker(s): Charles Nicholas ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Chen Chang
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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Death by Electrocution

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

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Lt. Drake
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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The Weather Kings

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Norton Kingsley (byline)] (credited)
Penciller(s): Greg Chapian
Inker(s): Greg Chapian
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Moth; The Weather Kings (villains, all die)
Synopsis: 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.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Credits suggested by Jerry Bails' Who's Who.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Hemlock Shomes
First Line: I hope I can escape jury duty...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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The Transport Saboteurs

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (S. R. Powell byline but after Powell left Fox)
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: espionage
Character(s): D-13 [Richard Anthony]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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Showdown with Sin Lee

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Captain Savage; Sin Lee (villain, death)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
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The Vanishing Beauties of Ankara

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? [as George Tuska] (byline only)
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Zanzibar; Achmed Pasha (villain, introduction)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4

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