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off white pgs; Windy City Copy
1st appearance of Fiery Mask, w/ origin; 1st app. Monako, John Steele and Doc Doyle; Alex Schomburg bondage cover (1/40)
John Wise Collection


Daring Mystery Comics #1 defines the tenuous bridge between the pulp fiction of the 1930s and the hero boom of the 1940s — starting with the characteristically hyperactive bondage cover from the great Alex Schomburg. The wild sci-fi imagery may be straight out of Buck Rogers, but Timely's reliably nightmarish villains invited readers to pursue a bold new direction.

The company was still bringing in outside stories from the Chesler and Jacquet Studios, with writer/artist Joe Simon inspiring Schomburg with the debut of the Fiery Mask in "The Fantastic Thriller of the Walking Corpses" (featuring both giant birds and zombie hordes). Monako the Magician also makes his first appearance, as well as two-fisted football star (and future superhero) Flash Foster. These early issues crackle with the fearless creativity that would lead to the Marvel Age, as publishers tried pretty much anything in pursuit of a constantly growing readership.
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Hailing from the Windy City pedigree, this stunning copy is the second-highest-graded known to exist, and blazes with color and energy as though it were just printed yesterday. As with so many of John Wise's books, this is a cornerstone of comics history, guaranteed to delight and excite Marvel fans and comics historians. A genuine rarity.



Overstreet Guide 2013 NM- (9.2) value = $40,000.



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Artists Information

Known for his dizzying, bustling war covers, bondage covers and airbrush Sci-Fi covers! Truly one of the most highly collected artists of the Golden Age. Alex Schomburg was born on May 10, 1905, in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, Schomburg freelanced primarily for Timely Comics, the 1940s forerunner of Marvel, displaying his talent for action tableaux in covers featuring Captain America, the Sub-Mariner, the Human Torch, and other superheroes. He also provided covers for Pines Publications, for titles including Exciting Comics and America's Best Comics, featuring such superheroes as the Black Terror and the Fighting Yank, as well as for Harvey Comics. Stan Lee said the following about Schomburg "I've always felt that Alex Schomburg was to comic books what Norman Rockwell was to The Saturday Evening Post. He was totally unique, with an amazing distinctive style. You could never mistake a Schomburg cover for any other artist's. ... I remember hearing Timely Comics publisher Martin Goodman tell me time and again how great a cover illustrator Alex was, and how he wished we had more like him. Despite the quantity of work we gave him, despite the care and effort that went into every Schomburg cover, I cannot remember Alex ever being late with any illustration."

Joseph Henry Simon was an American comic book writer, artist, editor, and publisher. Simon created or co-created many important characters in the 1930s–1940s Golden Age of Comic Books, such as Captain America, and served as the first editor of Timely Comics, the company that would evolve into Marvel Comics.