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Series
Mystic Comics 6
Atlas Tales
Title Profile
Curated Atlas tales, timelines, and cover art notes.
Issue Information
- Cover Date
- October 1941
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- Indicia Publisher
- Timely Comics, Inc.
- Starring
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The Destroyer starring
- Cover Credits
- Can you identify the creators? Let us know
Issue Overview
Mystic Comics #6 was published by Timely Comics, Inc. in October 1941. It is part of the Mystic Comics series, which ran from March 1940 to August 1942. This issue features The Destroyer.
Atlas Tales indexes 10 stories for this issue, including "Back Comes The Dreaded Red Skull." Indexed story credits include Stan Lee and Jack Binder, among others.
Stories
Back Comes The Dreaded Red Skull
Credits
Credits not yet documented
Notes: Inside front cover. Black and white ad for Captain America Comics and the Sentinels of Liberty,
Untitled
Credits
Stan Lee script signed
Jack Binder pencils signed
The Destroyer
starring
Contributors:
Ger Apeldoorn: Creator Credit
Ger Apeldoorn: Creator Credit
Notes: The Destroyer was an early character supposedly created by Stan Lee, about a superhero
working from within Nazi Germany. With art by Jack Binder, I guess the hero could have
originated at a shop as well? I am not sure if Lee wrote all the Destroyer stories, but he did
like to do phoney German accents, even in some of his text stories. - Ger Apeldoorn
Back Comes The Dreaded Red Skull
Credits
Credits not yet documented
Notes: Color version of the inside front cover ad for Captain America Comics and the Sentinels of Liberty,
Untitled
Credits
Jack Binder pencils guess
The Destroyer
starring
Contributors:
Ger Apeldoorn: Creator Credit
Ger Apeldoorn: Creator Credit
Identity Unknown
Credits
Mort Leav pencils guess
Black Marvel
starring
Contributors:
Ger Apeldoorn: Creator Credit
Ger Apeldoorn: Creator Credit
Notes: Great text story. The narrator introduces the editor of the book, who tells the reader why
he has chosen these heroes for this book. As Stan Lee later would do in his stroies, he
pretends that the heroes actually exist in the same universe as the editor. He also ends
with a typical 'and there you have it, pals'. Some people have said Stan Lee's bantering with
the readers was something he picked up from Lev Gleason, but here he's at it twenty years
before the Fantastic Four came along. - Ger Apeldoorn.
Untitled
Credits
Al Bare pencils signed
The Challenger
starring
Contributors:
Ger Apeldoorn: Creator Credit
Ger Apeldoorn: Creator Credit
Untitled
Credits
Credits not yet documented
Notes: Ad for The Young Allies 1.
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