Mr. Mystic

Mr. Mystic in action.

Mr. Mystic is a comics series featuring a magician crime-fighter, created by Will Eisner and initially drawn by Bob Powell. The strip featured in four-page backup feature a Sunday-newspaper comic-book insert, known colloquially as "The Spirit Section". It first appeared in 1940, distributed by the Register and Tribune Syndicate.[1]

Mr. Mystic, whose alter ego was an American diplomat named Ken, gained his superpowers in Tibet, where he was chosen by the mysterious Council of Seven Lamas to fight against evil.[2] The council gives him a tattoo of an arcane symbol on his forehead, and he dresses in stage magician clothing: a business suit, with a cape and turban.[1] Among his abilities were the power to transform into animals and to grow to giant or minute sizes.[3] After receiving these gifts, he returns to the United States to fight crime.

  1. ^ a b Mr. Mystic at Don Markstein's Toonopedia Archived from the original on March 10, 2016.
  2. ^ Mitchell, Kurt; Thomas, Roy (2019). American Comic Book Chronicles: 1940-1944. TwoMorrows Publishing. p. 35. ISBN 978-1605490892.
  3. ^ Mr. Mystic Archived 2010-11-15 at the Wayback Machine at Wildwood Cemetery: The Spirit Database. WebCitation archive.