| Additional Information |
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| Publication | August 1940 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
| Notes | Art credits revised from Charles Nicholas? to Ashe by Craig Delich 2010-3-14. |
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| Content | Genre: Superhero |
| Notes | Art credits revised from Charles Nicholas? to Ashe by Craig Delich 2010-3-14. |
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| Publisher advertisement | Because You Demanded It! (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Advertisement for Blue Beetle (Fox, 1940 series) #1 ([Winter 1940]). Assures readers that Blue Beetle will continue to appear in Mystery Men Comics. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero |
| Notes | On inside front cover. |
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| Synopsis | A gang of thieves rob a pawn shop, nearly knocking out Policeman Hannigan, who whistles an SOS, which the Blue Beetle overhears and heads out to capture the crooks. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Mike Hannigan (policeman); unnamed pawn shop worker; Spike (villain, introduction); Spike's gang [Joe; Red (death); unnamed members] (villains, introduction) |
| Notes | First mention of Blue Beetle being given super-powers by Vitamin 2X.
Art credits from Shaun Clancy in the Comics History Exchange list on Facebook based on Larry Antonette's personal papers, which included pages of this story torn from the original comic book and kept as reference by Antonette (21 February 2015). |
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| Comic Story | The Joe Pennelli Case, Part 1 (3 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Wing Turner; Joe Pennelli (villain, introduction) |
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| Comic Story | The Destruction of Tarsis (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Rex and Cynde are on their way back to Mars, but before getting there they respond to an urgent call for help to save all living beings from the doomed planet Tarsis. They accept, but Cynde is put in charge of a separate ship from Rex and is captured by Rof and Zard. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Science Fiction | Characters: Rex Dexter; Cynde; unnamed ruler of Tarsis (introduction); Rof (villain, introduction); Zard (villain, introduction) |
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| Comic Story | The Butcher's Maniacal Murders (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Green Mask must track down and stop a maniac murderer who is targeting debutantes, whose tenth and eleventh victims were Janet Royce and Elizabeth Blankett. |
| Credits | Script:? [as Walter Frame (byline)] (credited) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Mary Morgan; unnamed mayor; unnamed police chief; The Butcher (villain, introduction); the Butcher's gang (villains, introduction) |
| Notes | Arat credits from AC Comics' Mark Heike. |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Billy Bounce |
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| Comic Story | The Devil's Vendetta (6 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Chen Chang (villain); Hip Sing (villain, introduction) |
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| Synopsis | Advertisement for the Blue Beetle radio program listing stations airing the program. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Superhero |
| Notes | The drawing of Blue Beetle is an obvious tracing of Lou Fine's Samson from the cover of Fantastic Comics (Fox, 1939 series) #1 (December 1939). |
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| Comic Story | The Spies in the Lighthouse (5 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Crime | Characters: Lt. Drake; Ivan (villain, introduction, death); other spies (villain, introduction, death); Miss Kayne (introduction) |
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| Text Story | Death from the Boxing Ring (1.67 pages) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Sports |
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| Comic Story | The Lady Saboteur (8 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: D-13 [Richard Anthony]; Henrietta Gorin (introduction, villain) |
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| Comic Story | Ching the Pirate (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | Pirates led by Ching attack the yacht Zanzibar is on. Zanzibar turns Ching into a rat. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Zanzibar; Ching (villain, introduction) |
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| Comic Story | The Coming of the Lynx (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Lynx and Blackie, the Wonder Boy, must battle the Flood Makers Association in order to prevent them from flooding a town and looting the empty homes. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Lynx [Jim] (introduction); Blackie [Phil] (introduction, origin); Professor Bigsby; Red Crowley (introduction, villain); Dutch (villain) |
| Notes | Artist credit revision from ? to Jim Mooney, some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 9-26-08. |
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| Comic Story | Lt. Wolff Attacks (3 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Captain Savage; Lt. Wolff (villain, introduction); Nazis (villains) |
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