Marvel Mystery Comics #1

In "The Parrot Strikes Back!" from Marvel Mystery Comics #1 (1999), the Torch teams up with the enigmatic Parrot on a high-stakes journey across the country, escorting him to California where a chemist plans to study an inactive volcano for vital sulfur deposits—crucial to replenishing the nation’s dwindling gunpowder supply. The mission brings unexpected challenges and a tense alliance as they navigate the open road, far from the usual battles of the superhero life.

In "The Devil and the Green Plague," Hurricane joins the Holden expedition into the remote Matto Grasso, where a mysterious illness known as the Green Plague is ravaging the population. There, they meet Doctor Clay, a man fighting a relentless battle against a disease that defies explanation—its origins and spread as unsettling as the region itself.

In "The Case of the Armless Tiger Man," a factory worker from Germany—mutilated by machinery and now sent to America by the Nazis—wields a terrifying new purpose: to dismantle the machines that once betrayed him, all in service of the Reich’s twisted vision. Written by an unknown hand and illustrated by an unknown artist, this 1999 tale blends wartime intrigue with a body horror edge, as one man’s tragedy becomes a weapon of war.

In "The Aging Plague," a starlet’s sudden transformation into an elderly woman sets off a terrifying ransom scheme, leaving her beauty—and her life—on the line. Silver Scorpion, shaken by the injustice, steps in to uncover the truth behind the mysterious affliction.

In "The White Death," Cap and Bucky find themselves hunted through the shadowed halls of the late Josiah Harrow’s mansion by a chilling, white-cloaked figure with no face and a hunger for death—now set on claiming them as its next victims.