Minute Man #1

Dates

Cover date

[May 14] 1941

On sale

May 14, 1941

Pages

68

Editions and covers

• Original edition

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Creators

Stories

• The Redemption of Major Von Hartz · 16 pages

  Major Hart wants to put his past of spying for Nazi Germany behind him, but foreign agents try to persuade him otherwise by kidnapping his father and forcing him to do anything he can to embarrass America's army. His first assignment is to betray Fort Stonewall. Minute Man tells the major to go along with their plans while he attempts to rescue the soldier's father.

• No Rest for Minute Man · 14 pages

  Minute Man saves a young lad from Nazi agents while aboard a train and hears from the lad that a crooked political boss named Shuker is involved with those same agents who plan to use devious means for him to be elected first, governor of the state, then dictator. What Shuker doesn't know is that those same agents plan to control the government themselves and use Shuker only as a figure head.

• Triumph of Time · 2 pages

  Following Public Enemy Number Three, Red Kozlik, to Ekstrom Laboratories, New York rookie policeman O'Grady comes face to face with Ekstrom, who is being held at gun point by the nefarious criminal. Kozlik insists that the professor use his newly invented time machine to send Kozlik back to August 18, 1921. The professor does, but Kozlik discovers that fate has a way of settling old scores.

• Illyria, Queen of Spies · 15 pages

  Jack Weston is sent to Barracoon, an island in the Gulf of Mexico that the U.S. government has just purchased for use as a naval base. However, Minute Man must contend with Illyria and her agents who plan to stop the building of the base by stirring up the ancient voodoo deviltry that the island is noted for.

• The Servants of Korozan · 15 pages

  Jack Weston is arrested following the disappearance of Senator Barr's daughter, who was actually kidnapped by Japanese foreign agents, hoping to induce her famous father to quit his insistence that America build up stronger defenses.

Reprinted in

Men of Mystery Comics (1999)