Mystic Comics #10 Values

Publisher: Marvel, 1942

About Mystic Comics #10

Father Time, World of Wonder, and Red Skeleton appearances. Last Challenger and Terror features. World War II cover.

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COVER DETAILS

Characters: Destroyer [Keen Marlow]

Pencils: Al Gabriele (signed)

Inks: Syd Shores

STORY DETAILS

(13 Stories)

Title: Battling the Underground Factory Fiend

Characters: Destroyer [Keen Marlow]; Flora von Bangor [Florence von Banger]; Adolf Hitler

Synopsis: Flora observes the government's top production official leaving a conference with Hitler, and tells Keen about it. As the Destroyer, Keen follows the official and discovers his new underground production facilities, frees the prisoners laboring there, and destroys the factories.

Pages: 15.000

Pencils: John Forte [as Forte] (signed)

Inks: John Forte [as Forte] (signed)

Title: The World of Wonder

Characters: Jimmie (introduction); Jackie (introduction)

Synopsis: Jackie and Jimmie are two boys who live in the magic city in the center of Wonder Woods. They go into the woods to search for magic items, and find an hourglass that controls time. They are captured by ogres, but Jackie uses the hourglass to speed up time and grow into a man and fight the ogres. Afterwards, reversing the hourglass turns him into a boy again.

Pages: 6.000

Pencils: Louis Golden (signed)

Inks: Louis Golden (signed)

Notes: The last panel promises another story "next month" but this was the last issue and this feature did not appear again.

Title: The Legend of the Headless Executioner

Characters: Father Time [Larry Scott]

Synopsis: Father Time unravels a complicated scheme involving a large and supposedly cursed emerald that is part of a headless idol from India.

Pages: 7.000

Pencils: Jack Alderman (signed)

Inks: Jack Alderman (signed)

Notes: Art credits suggested by the Who's Who. This feature appeared last in Young Allies Comics #3. Last golden age appearance. Next appearance in All-Winners Squad: Band of Heroes (Marvel, 2011 series) #2.

Title: The Demon's Rampage

Characters: Davey Drew; Demon

Synopsis: The Demon breaks out of the pit where the Prince of Good imprisoned him last issue and continues his rampage. Davey hears of this and pursues him to the Grand Canyon and into caverns below, where he traps the Demon and drowns him in an underground stream.

Pages: 5.000

Pencils: Mike Sekowsky [as Howard James] (signed)

Notes: Inks credits originally given to Mike Sekowsky in error (per Tony Isabella, March 30, 2006); Signed by Howard James, but does not look like previous Davey and the Demon stories by him- possibly always a pen name? (Henry Andrews 2008-10-10). There is a teaser wondering if the Demon is indeed dead, and inviting the reader to find out in the next issue, which never appeared. Next appearance in All-Winners Squad: Band of Heroes (Marvel, 2011 series) #3.

Title: Story Conference

Characters: Red Skeleton (introduction); Deena Drayson (introduction); Stanley Dee (editor of Crimely Comics; introduction)

Synopsis: Red's editor isn't impressed with his writing efforts. When Deena, who wants a job as Red's assistant, mentions a fashion show to Red he starts to write a murder mystery about a model. But soon life starts to imitate art too closely, and Red thinks he can solve the crime!

Pages: 8.000

Notes: Red is a comic book writer for Crimely Publications working for editor Stanley Dee. Captain America and The Human Torch are mentioned as Red tries to come up with a story.

Title: The Death List of Mister Z

Characters: The Terror

Synopsis: The Terror thwarts a scheme to collect on insurance policies through murder.

Pages: 8.000

Script: Otto Binder

Pencils: Don Rico

Inks: Don Rico

Notes: Writer credit from Binder records.

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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	0	0	0	0	1	0	3	2	1	0	1	2	3	3	0	4	1	1	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	25
Qualified	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
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	1	2	0	1	0	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	9
Total	0	0	0	1	1	0	3	2	2	0	2	4	3	4	0	6	3	1	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	35

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