Master Mystic Mix Master

Pelican Publications was a strange enough company name with their singular release of Green Giant Comics in 1940 starring a size-shifting superhero, but even stranger was its shorter feature of Master Mystic. Similar to Stardust the Space Wizard, Master Mystic is someone mysteriously given cosmic powers that let him do whatever the plot has room for with no limit on his power, although this hooded hero somehow got his godlike status simply by utilizing "mind over matter". If Mr. M got his abilities from dropping LSD or sheer will, the story doesn't tell us. The story opens with him flying around downtown and spooking supposed evil doers by using his super-yelling power shouting at them to shape up when they are just walking around in broad daylight. Cut to Slavonia where the mad scientist Rango was still fuming over losing a recent attempt to take over Europe, an act they comb over quickly to get on with this 6-page story, even though you would think that a criminal genius trying to conquer an entire continent on his own would be worth going into a little more detail. Rango creates a formula to turn himself into a Godzilla-sized menace as he wrecks his hometown and just walks all the way across the Atlantic to invade America. Master Mystic is chilling in his tower which is said to be on the top of the world, so probably somewhere in the Arctic Circle, and then uses his power of concentration to become immune to the forces of nature, which is just a long-winded way of saying that he telepathically picked up on Rango's rampage. Mystic's loudmouth power allows him to lure out the mutated monster man to a fight where Rango grabs him like an action figure, even though Mystic turns himself into vapor and then conjures up a missile out of thin air which Rango swats down. The Slavonian giant then does like most brawny villains and starts chucking rocks at his enemy who uses the Jedi powers to lift the rocks back. The almighty Master Mystic utilizes his special power of liquidating rays which he shoots at Rango straight between the eyes who starts melting like an ice cream in July. Our hero then leaps back home to catch up on some Flintstones. If you can somehow achieve the Dr. Manhattan levels of power simply by figuring out "mind over matter", then you essentially can become a messiah if you listen to enough Pink Floyd.