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Cover: Alex Schomburg & Alex Schomburg

Mystic Comics #5

Mar 1941 · Marvel · 0.10 USD
“The Origin of the Black Marvel”

After witnessing an amazing transformation in his dog, brought on by chemicals, Dr. Storm extracts a serum to grant those powers of fearlessness and a skull-like appearance to a human being. When a man loses control of his car and winds up amnesiac on the doctor's doorstep, Dr. Storm subjects hi to the serum. When gangsters arrive to force Dr. Storm to help them, the stranger wakes up and assumes the ghastly visage of the Terror, killing the thugs. Dr. Storm dies from his wounds, but the Terror vows to continue his fight against crime.

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writer Phil Sturm · artist Syd Shores · artist George Klein · inker George Klein · cover Alex SchomburgAlex Schomburg

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writer Phil Sturm
artist Syd Shores
cover pencils Alex Schomburg
cover inks Alex Schomburg

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After witnessing an amazing transformation in his dog, brought on by chemicals, Dr. Storm extracts a serum to grant those powers of fearlessness and a skull-like appearance to a human being. When a man loses control of his car and winds up amnesiac on the doctor's doorstep, Dr. Storm subjects hi to the serum. When gangsters arrive to force Dr. Storm to help them, the stranger wakes up and assumes the ghastly visage of the Terror, killing the thugs. Dr. Storm dies from his wounds, but the Terror vows to continue his fight against crime.

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