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8March 1942
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Mystic Comics #8

Marvel · March 1942 · on sale 1941-12-28

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Series
Mystic Comics (Marvel, 1940 series)
Issue
#8
Publication date
March 1942
Key date
1942-03-00
On-sale date
1941-12-28
Indicia publisher
Timely Comics Inc.
Price
$0.10
Pages
68

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Contents

SeqStoryTypePagesCreditsCharacters
0-cover1pencils: Al Gabriele; inks: Al GabrieleDestroyer [Keen Marlowe]
1Still on top!promo (ad from the publisher)1pencils: Al Avison; inks: Syd Shores
2The Largest Diamond in the Worldcomic story12pencils: George Klein; inks: Howard JamesBlack Marvel [Dan Lyons]
3No One Is Safecomic story5pencils: Howard James; inks: Howard JamesDavey Drew; Demon
4The Surprise Success of the Century!promo (ad from the publisher)1pencils: Syd Shores; inks: Syd Shores
5Hitler Meets the Destroyercomic story15script: Stan LeeDestroyer [Keen Marlowe]; Adolf Hitler; von Maus
6The Gems of Doomcomic story7script: Stan Lee; pencils: Mike Suchorsky; inks: Mike SuchorskyThe Witness; the Imp
7Death Drewscomic story7script: Otto BinderThe Terror
8Ghost Storytext story1.75letters: typeset
9Statement of Ownership, Management, Circulation, Etc. required by the Acts of Congress of August 24th, 1912 and March 3, 1933statement of ownership0.25script: Abraham Goodman, Bernard Arbital; editing: Martin Goodman, Abraham Goodman
10The Thingcomic story7pencils: Syd Shores; inks: Syd ShoresBlazing Skull [Mark Todd]; Dr. Fear
11League of Crimecomic story8script: Stan LeeChallenger [Bill Waring]

Plus 2 pages of advertisements and other matter across 2 sequences, as published.

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