Please consider these more observations than a review. I am enjoying my personal time-travelling by means of Mystery Men Comics.
In #3, I had to chuckle regarding the story line about orphan thieves under a man named "Fakin." Read Oliver Twist much, Mr. Fagin?
The second feature involved our Martian-born hero in a situation reminiscent of a Frankenstein riff, complete with a riotous mob (which we are told in Young Frankenstein is a bad, bad thing).
The notorious Cheng, previously compared with Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu, displays a significant difference with the super villain of the novels. Cheng actually goes out on raids with his gang. This adventure features a marvelous rail chase and ends with a cliffhanger frame worthy of the old movie serials.
I had trouble suspending my disbelief in the Wing Turner story. I just have trouble believing that military resources would be used to guard a jewel.
Our fearless naval intelligence officer disguises himself to expose a game of card sharps/sharks at sea.
The Waco Kid story wasn't anything special, but it was interesting to see the missing leg of the horse in panel 5 of one of the pages.
Inspector Bancroft deals with an Indian conspiracy that would be very appropriate to the time period in which this comic was published. But, alas, the D-13 secret agent story was far-fetched enough to block my suspended disbelief.
What truly amazes me is the amount of variety in each issue with some of the stories being top notch and others simply being clever.
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