Mystic Comics #7 Values

Publisher: Marvel, 1941

About Mystic Comics #7

An Overstreet "classic" cover featuring Hitler, opening his trunk of terrors, by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. Contains the origin and first appearance of The Witness. Al Avison and Al Gabriele art.

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COVER DETAILS

Characters: Destroyer [Keen Marlow]; Adolf Hitler

Pencils: Jack Kirby

Inks: Joe Simon ?

Notes: Possible Simon inks per atlastales.com. Previous indexer credited Syd Shores.

STORY DETAILS

(10 Stories)

Title: The Machine of Death

Characters: Destroyer [Keen Marlowe]; Florence von Banger; Adolf Hitler

Synopsis: After finding food for a starving German couple, Keen and Florence stumble across a scientist trying out his new death machine. Keen sabotages it, but that gets Florence and him sent to a concentration camp. He escapes, becomes the Destroyer, and shuts down the machine and its creator once and for all.

Pages: 15.000

Script: Stan Lee (signed)

Pencils: Al Avison (signed)

Inks: Al Avison ?

Notes: The Destroyer's last name is Marlowe in this issue, but was Marlow when he was introduced in #6.

Title: The League of Blood

Characters: The Witness (introduction); Sid Stern (football player, introduction, cameo, death); Mr. Rollins (trucking company owner, introduction); Natas (villain, introduction); The League of Blood (villains, introduction for all, some die); Nick, the Gambler (villain, introduction, cameo, death)

Synopsis: The evil Natas directs his League of Blood to commit murders for hire, but a mysterious man known as the Witness sees them and hunts them down, killing them in retaliation and tracing the orders back to Natas.

Pages: 7.000

Script: Stan Lee

Pencils: Mike Suchorsky

Inks: Mike Suchorsky

Notes: Art credits from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo. Script credits suggested by the Who's Who.

Title: Lewis & Sykes

Characters: Black Widow [Claire Voyant]; Satan

Synopsis: Satan sends the Black Widow to claim the souls of Lewis and Sykes, America weapons manufacturers who are selling their weapons to the Axis as well as the Allies.

Pages: 5.000

Script: Stan Lee ?

Pencils: Stan Drake (signed)

Inks: Stan Drake (signed)

Title: Heritage of Destruction

Characters: Destroyer [Keen Marlowe]

Synopsis: While the Destroyer hides out with a man he has rescued from Nazis, he tells the man of when he had to knowingly walk into a trap to prevent innocent German civilians from being executed.

Pages: 2.000

Script: Stan Lee (signed)

Letters: typeset

Notes: Text story with illustrations.

Title: A Fight to the Death

Characters: Challenger [Bill Waring]

Synopsis: The Challenger faces a large ape-like man who has changed his career from boxing to crime in hand-to-hand combat.

Pages: 8.000

Pencils: George Klein (signed)

Inks: Mike Sekowsky [as Michael Sekowsky] (signed)

Notes: Ger Apeldoorn notes at atlastales.com that Sekowsky usually penciled but the art does not look like his. Klein's signature comes first.

Title: The Dweller in the Haunted Cave

Characters: Davey Drew (introduction; origin); Demon (introduction)

Synopsis: Young orphan Davey Drew inadvertently frees the Demon, embodiment of mankind's evil, from his prison in a cave. The Demon swears to destroy humanity, but in return for freeing him he swears not to harm Davey and gives him a cloak that will protect him. Horrified, Davey brings the military to stop the Demon, but succeeds only in driving him off temporarily.

Pages: 5.000

Title: The Grinner

Characters: Black Marvel [Dan Lyons]

Synopsis: Dr. Weems drinks a concoction that he thinks might be a cure for pneumonia, but it instead transforms him into a Mr. Hyde-like monster who becomes known as The Grinner by the local criminals. The Black Marvel must stop him as he tries by intimidation and murder to gain control of prize oil-producing land.

Pages: 8.000

Pencils: Al Gabriele (signed)

Inks: Al Gabriele (signed)

Title: Museum Robberies

Characters: Blazing Skull [Mark Todd]

Synopsis: Mark Todd (in this story said to be a district attorney) hears of mysterious thefts at an art museum that happen without anyone breaking in to the building. He decides to tackle the case as the Blazing Skull, and realizes that the thief has been hiding out in the museum disguised as a statue during the day.

Pages: 7.000

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CGC Census Report*

Grade	NG	PG	CVR	0.5	1.0	1.5	1.8	2.0	2.5	3.0	3.5	4.0	4.5	5.0	5.5	6.0	6.5	7.0	7.5	8.0	8.5	9.0	9.2	9.4	9.6	9.8	9.9	10.0	Total
Universal	2	0	0	0	0	2	2	1	1	1	2	2	3	1	4	1	5	0	2	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	29
Qualified	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3
Signature Series	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
CGCxJSA	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Restored	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	0	1	1	2	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	10
Total	2	0	0	0	0	2	2	1	2	3	4	2	3	2	5	3	5	1	3	0	0	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	42

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