Daring Mystery Comics
Daring Mystery Comics | |
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Silver Scorpion. Cover art by Jack Kirby & Joe Simon. | |
Publication information | |
Publisher | Timely Comics |
Schedule | Varied (nominally monthly or bimonthly) |
Format | Ongoing series |
Publication date | January 1940 – January 1942 |
No. of issues | 8 |
Creative team | |
Written by | Joe Simon, Bill Everett, Jack Kirby |
Artist(s) | Carl Burgos, Bill Everett, Alex Schomburg, Joe Simon, Jack Kirby |
Editor(s) | Martin Goodman, Joe Simon |
Daring Mystery Comics is an American
Daring Mystery Comics #8 (Jan. 1942) features the first appearance of the Golden Age superhero Citizen V, who decades later appears in flashback in the Marvel series Thunderbolts, where his family and the Citizen V identity play a major part. A small handful of other Daring Mystery superheroes have been revived or have made guest appearances in modern-day titles, such as the World War II-set flashback series The Invaders and the feature "Liberty Legion" in Marvel Premiere.
Publication history
Daring Mystery Comics came from publisher
Following Daring Mystery Comics #1-8 (Jan. 1940 - Jan. 1942) and a publishing hiatus, the series' numbering continued under different titles.
Characters
An anthology with no regular star, the series included a number of obscure, mostly single-appearance features. Due to Golden Age comics work often going unsigned, comprehensive credits are difficult if not impossible to ascertain, and in many early cases, a feature's artist is also the uncredited writer.
The best known superheroes to debut in its pages were the
In the 1970s, the Blue Diamond resurfaced in period stories in
Other heroes included the
The final three issues contained work by the commercially popular team of writer-
Non-superhero features included "G-Man, Don Gorman", a single-issue cover character by unknown creators, though inked by future notable
The comic's first five covers were by artist Alex Schomburg.[2]
Complete List of Features
- The Fiery Mask (January 1940; June 1940; September 1940)
- John Steele, Soldier of Fortune (January 1940) [final]
- The Texas Kid (January 1940) [final]
- Monako, Prince of Magic (January 1940; May 1940-September 1940) [final]
- Flash Foster at Midwestern (January 1940) [final]
- Doyl Denton, Phantom of the Underworld (January 1940) [final]
- Barney Mullen – Sea Rover (January 1940) [final]
- Zephyr Jones and His Rocket Ship (February 1940)
- The Phantom Bullet, Scourge of the Underworld (February 1940) [final]
- Trojak, the Tiger-Man (February 1940-June 1940) [final]
- K-4 and His Sky Devils (February 1940-June 1940) [final]
- Mr. E. (February 1940) [final]
- The Laughing Mask/The Purple Mask (February 1940-May 1940) [final]
- Dale of the FBI (April 1940) [final]
- Breeze Barton (April 1940-June 1940) [final]
- The Phantom Reporter (April 1940) [final]
- Marvex the Super Robot (April 1940-June 1940) [final]
- Captain Strong of the Foreign Legion (April 1940) [final]
- Whirlwind Carter of the Interplanetary Secret Service (May 1940-June 1940) [final]
- G-Man Don Gorman (May 1940) [final]
- Little Hercules (June 1940) [final]
- The Falcon (June 1940-September 1940) [final]
- Marvel Boy (September 1940) [final]
- Stuporman (September 1940)
- The Flying Flame (September 1940)
- Dynaman (September 1940) [final]
- Tigerman (September 1940) [final]
- The Thunderer (April 1941; January 1942) [final; revamped as Black Avenger]
- The Fin (April 1941; January 1942)
- Blue Diamond (April 1941; January 1942) [final]
- Officer O’Krime (April 1941; January 1942)
- The Silver Scorpion (April 1941; January 1942)
- The Challenger (April 1941)
- Mr. Million (April 1941) [final]
- Captain Daring (April 1941; January 1942) [final; revamped as Captain Dash]
- Citizen V (January 1942)
- The Li’l Professor and the Robot (January 1942)
- Tubby an’ Tack (January 1942)
Collected editions
- Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Daring Mystery Vol. 1 (collects Daring Mystery Comics #1-4)
- Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Daring Mystery Vol. 2 (collects Daring Mystery Comics #5-8)
In other media
The Thunderer appeared in the "Six Forgotten Warriors" episode of one of the
References
- ^ Murray, Will (2010). "Introduction". In Cory Sedlmeier (ed.). Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Daring Mystery Comics, Vol. 2. New York: Marvel Publishing, Inc. pp. vi–xi.
- ^ a b c d Daring Mystery Comics at the Grand Comics Database
- ^ Daring Comics at AtlasTales.com
- ^ Daring Comics (1944-1945) Archived 2006-01-06 at the Wayback Machine at The Unofficial Handbook of Marvel Comics Creators
- ^ Comedy Comics at AtlasTales.com
- ^ Comedy Comics at The Unofficial Handbook of Marvel Comics Creators
- ISBN 0-87833-808-X. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
- ^ All-Winners Squad: Band of Heroes at the Grand Comics Database.
- ^ "Enter the Laughing Mask", Daring Mystery Comics #2 at the Grand Comics Database
- ^ "Mystery of the Swabert Mansion," starring the Purple Mask, Daring Mystery Comics #2 at the Grand Comics Database
- ^ "Meet the Challenger", Daring Mystery Comics #7 at the Grand Comics Database
- ^ "The Origin of Dynaman", Daring Mystery Comics #7 at the Grand Comics Database
- ^ "The Silver Scorpion", Daring Mystery Comics #7 at the Grand Comics Database
- ^ "Scourge of Fear", Comedy Comics #9 at the Grand Comics Database.
- ^ "The Man After the Man of Tomorrow", Daring Mystery Comics #6 at the Grand Comics Database
- ^ Daring Mystery Comics #1 at the Grand Comics Database
- ^ Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Daring Mystery Vol. 2 credits Jack Alderman, but historian Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. disputes this at the Grand Comics Database entry for "Introducing K-4", Daring Mystery Comics #2, which lists the creative personnel as unknown for reasons given there.
- ^ "Mars Attacks", Daring Mystery Comics #4 at the Grand Comics Database
- ^ "King of the Jungle, Daring Mystery Comics #2 at the Grand Comics Database
- ^ Untitled story, Daring Mystery Comics #1 at the Grand Comics Database
- ^ "The Football Fixing Scheme", Daring Mystery Comics #1 at the Grand Comics Database
Further reading
- ISBN 0-517-50188-0)
External links
- Daring Mystery Comics at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)