Volume: 1
Price: 0.10 USD
Pages: 68
On-sale Date: 1940-03-15
Editing: Victor Fox (editor)
Cover Thumbnail for Mystery Men Comics (Fox, 1939 series) #10 Edit Cover
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[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents)

Blue Beetle / cover / 1 page

Pencils:
Joe Simon (signed)
Inks:
Joe Simon (signed)
Colors:
?
  • Genre:superhero
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Suddenly the Blue Beetle appeared... Was he too late?
Characters:
The Blue Beetle [Dan Garret]
Reprints (2)

Indexer 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.

Issue Data

Indexer 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.

[The Beetle and the Bombers]
(Table of Contents: 1)

Blue Beetle / comic story / 8 pages

Script:
?
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:superhero
Characters:
Blue Beetle [Dan Garrett]; The Yellow Gang (introduction, villain)

[The Prince Otembi Affair: Part 1]
(Table of Contents: 2)

Wing Turner / comic story / 3 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
  • Genre:war; adventure; aviation
Characters:
Wing Turner; Prince Otembi (introduction); V: Mahruf-Ali (villain, introduction)
Reprints (1)

Indexer Notes

Letters credit identified by Greg Theakston and later Harry Mendryk on the Jack Kirby Museum web page http://kirbymuseum.org/blogs/simonandkirby/archives/2369, 31 October 2008 (retrieved 15 December 2014).

[Invasion of Fire]
(Table of Contents: 3)

Rex Dexter / comic story / 8 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Dick Briefer (signed)
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:science fiction
Characters:
Rex Dexter; Flame-Men (from Emalf, introduction, villain)

[The Professor's Blackmail Band]
(Table of Contents: 4)

The Green Mask / comic story / 8 pages

Script:
?
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:superhero
Characters:
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.
Reprints (2)

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 5)

Billy Bounce / comic story / 2 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
  • Genre:humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Yip-pee-eee!
Characters:
Billy Bounce
Reprints (1)

Slaves for Slaughter
(Table of Contents: 6)

Chen Chang / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
?
Pencils:
Pierce Rice ? (byline Cecilia Munson)
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:adventure; crime
Characters:
Chen Chang

Death by Electrocution
(Table of Contents: 7)

text story / 2 pages

Script:
Joe Simon ? (credited as Martin A. Brusten)
Letters:
typeset

[The Dope Smuggling Gamblers]
(Table of Contents: 8)

Lt. Drake / comic story / 5 pages

Script:
?
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:adventure; military
Characters:
Lt. Drake

[The Weather Kings]
(Table of Contents: 9)

The Moth / comic story / 5 pages

Script:
Norton Kingsley (credited) (house name)
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:superhero
Characters:
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.
Reprints (1)

Indexer Notes

Credits suggested by Jerry Bails' Who's Who.

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 10)

Hemlock Shomes / comic story / 2 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Fred Schwab (signed Fred)
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
  • Genre:humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:I hope I can escape jury duty...
Characters:
Hemlock Shomes

[The Transport Saboteurs]
(Table of Contents: 11)

D-13 / comic story / 8 pages

Script:
?
Pencils:
? (S. R. Powell byline but after Powell left Fox)
Inks:
?
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:spy
Characters:
D-13 [Richard Anthony]

[Showdown with Sin Lee]
(Table of Contents: 12)

Captain Savage, Sea Rover / comic story / 3 pages

Script:
?
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:adventure
Characters:
Captain Savage; Sin Lee (villain, death)

[The Vanishing Beauties of Ankara]
(Table of Contents: 13)

Zanzibar / comic story / 4 pages

Script:
?
Pencils:
? [as George Tuska] (byline only)
Inks:
?
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:superhero; fantasy-supernatural
Characters:
Zanzibar; Achmed Pasha (villain, introduction)
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Table of Contents ToC
    Table of Contents
  1. ["Suddenly the Blue Beetle appeared... Was he too late?"]
    Blue Beetle
  2. [The Beetle and the Bombers]
    Blue Beetle
  3. [The Prince Otembi Affair: Part 1]
    Wing Turner
  4. [Invasion of Fire]
    Rex Dexter
  5. [The Professor's Blackmail Band]
    The Green Mask
  6. ["Yip-pee-eee!"]
    Billy Bounce
  7. Slaves for Slaughter
    Chen Chang
  8. Death by Electrocution
  9. [The Dope Smuggling Gamblers]
    Lt. Drake
  10. [The Weather Kings]
    The Moth
  11. ["I hope I can escape jury duty..."]
    Hemlock Shomes
  12. [The Transport Saboteurs]
    D-13
  13. [Showdown with Sin Lee]
    Captain Savage, Sea Rover
  14. [The Vanishing Beauties of Ankara]
    Zanzibar
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