Issue | #11 |
Published | 1998 |
Cover Price | 6.95 USD |
Pages | 52 |
Editing | Bill Black |
Characters | Catman; Kitten |
Genre | Superhero |
Pencils | Bob Fujitani (signed) |
Inks | Bob Fujitani (signed) |
Reprinted | from Cat-Man Comics (Holyoke, 1941 series) #27 (April 1945) [first page only with Golden-Age Men of Mystery logo replacing Catman and the Kitten logo] |
Characters | Spitfire Sanders |
Genre | Superhero |
Script | Bill Black |
Pencils | Sam Cooper ? |
Inks | Sam Cooper ? |
Notes | Text article containing information on each character (and their story) featured in this issue of Men of Mystery, some additional information on the previous issue and information on the next issue, including a panel from the Phantom Lady story showing how it looked before it was reworked for her story. |
Characters | Catman [Lieut. Dave Merryweather] (origin); Katie Rose [Rosetta, Kitten] (origin); Deacon; Mickey; Lieut. Dave Merryweather; Dave Merryweather (flashback); Antoinette Burotte (Dave's mother) (flashback, death); Tamara; Zeealia; Antoinette's murderer (death) |
Synopsis | The origin of the Catman and Kitten and the story of how his mother's killer was brought to justice. |
Genre | Superhero |
Pencils | Bob Fujitani (signed) |
Inks | Bob Fujitani (signed) |
Reprinted | from Cat-Man Comics (Holyoke, 1941 series) #27 (April 1945) [originally in color] |
Characters | Catman |
Genre | Superhero |
Script | Bill Black ? |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | A small amount of additional information on the Catman series that was not in the Men of Mystery No. 11 article. |
Characters | The Black Terror [Bob Benton]; Tim; Sam Simmons; Audrey Vane; Bob Benton; Monk Malone (death); Marty (death) |
Synopsis | Monk Malone is crazy about Audrey Vane so he tells her that he'll get her a mink coat so that she'll stay with him rather than Sam Simmons. When Bob Benton hears that Monk is getting her the coat that night he knows that Fabulous Furs is closed so he must be stealing it. The Black Terror and Tim go to the store to stop the robbery but things don't go as planned. |
Genre | Superhero |
Pencils | Jerry Robinson (signed) |
Inks | Mort Meskin (signed) |
Editing | Ned Pines (original editor) |
Reprinted | from Exciting Comics (Standard, 1940 series) #64 (November 1948) [originally in color] |
Characters | Phantom Lady [Sandra Knight]; Comrade X; Sandra Knight; "The Whip"; King Eduardo of Travania; Prime Minister Kantroff |
Synopsis | Phantom Lady is told that King Eduardo of Travania is being duped by his Prime Minister Kantroff into declaring war on the Allies so she flys to Travania to make sure that King Eduardo is brought to his senses. |
Genre | Superhero |
Script | Ruth Roche ? |
Pencils | Sam Cooper |
Inks | Sam Cooper |
Editing | Ruth Roche (original editor) |
Notes | This story is an edited version of a 10 page Spitfire Sanders story from Spitfire Comics (Elliott, 1944 series) #132 (August 1944). |
Reprinted | from Phantom Lady (Ajax; Farrell, 1954 series) #5 [1] (December 1954-January 1955) [original title: "Cold War At a Boiling Point", originally in color] |
Characters | Blackhawk; Vampira; Hitla [Comrade Olga]; Comrade Communa |
Genre | Adventure; War |
Script | Bill Black |
Pencils | Dick Dillin |
Inks | Chuck Cuidera |
Notes | Bill Black states that comic books are sometimes incorrectly priced higher for first issues even though later issues usually have better stories. He says that the purpose of this column is to focus on comics that have good stories and art that fall out of the higher price range. He decides to begin with Blackhawk because of the interview with Chuck Cuidera in the next two issues. He then gives a synopsis of three of the Blackhawk stories in Blackhawk (Quality Comics, 1944 series) #97 (February 1956). Included in the article is a reprint of the cover and three panels from the stories that he covers. |
Characters | Catman; Kit; Terry West; Joseph Maletchek; Brutus; Doctor Ivan Claux |
Synopsis | When Dr. Ivan Claus creates a miniaturized mechanical brain the UN fears that it may be stolen by a country that would use it to threaten the world. The editor of the United Nations Press sends in Terry West to make sure that he has not been approached by a country that would use it to attack others. While talking to who she thinks is the Doctor she finds out that he has already been taken prisoner. When she and the doctor are being kidnapped she presses a button on her bracelet that alerts Catman that she is in danger. Catman and Kit rush to rescue her, the doctor and the mechanical brain. |
Genre | Superhero |
Pencils | John Dixon |
Inks | John Dixon |
Reprinted | from Catman Comics (Frew Publications, 1958 series) #21 ? |
Script | ? (promo copy) |
Pencils | Various |
Inks | Various |
Notes | House ad for Golden Age Greats and Golden Age Men of Mystery comics (and others) detailing the contents of each issue, with reprints of the covers to Golden Age Greats #4,6,8,11,12, Golden-Age Men of Mystery #2, 4-8, Official Golden-Age Hero & Heroine Directory, Senorito Rio TPB, All Hero Retro Annual #1 and Best of the West #1. |
Characters | Black Terror; Tim |
Genre | Superhero |
Script | ? (promo copy) |
Pencils | Jerry Robinson (signed) |
Inks | Mort Meskin (signed) |
Notes | Advertisement for Black Terror stories in Golden-Age Greats #13 and Golden-Age Men of Mystery #11 using a reprint of a panel from an unknown (to me) story. |