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ALIENS AND SO FORTH ROUND-UP 039

ALIENS AND SO FORTH ROUND-UP 039

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Today we present some of the many aliens of Jupiter. Ganymede Pirates:  After facing the upsetting menace of Orro, Ted Hunt and Jane Martin, the Star Rovers, are captured by space pirates and taken to their home base on Ganymede. Whether they are native to Ganymede is hard to say, as the Space Rover Solar System is one that is populated mostly by aliens that look like white guys. This could be a completely heterogeneous group of Ceresians, Martians, Venusians, Jovians and…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 959: THE INVISIBLE MENACE

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 959: THE INVISIBLE MENACE

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(Dynamic Comics 002, 1941) It’s a story as old as comics and then some: an inventor has come up with a cool superscientific gizmo – in this case an invisibility serum – and no sooner are they done than some gangsters come stiffing around looking to exploit it. This particular gang is headed by an unnamed and trigger-happy fellow who guns down the scientist and then his own men in order to get his mitts on the single available dose…

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CATALOGUE OF WOUNDS 008

CATALOGUE OF WOUNDS 008

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Everybody gets shot now and then. the Bronze Terror:  The Bronze Terror is shot in the left arm during his first adventure by the wicked Scar Thornton, which gives him an excuse to show off his penchant for knocking out crooks’ teeth. (Daredevil Comics 002, 1941) Whiz, King of Falcons:  Whiz is shot through the left wing by a Lord Haw-Haw analog, and since this is the one issue in which he has the power of speech, he gets to…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 958: THE YELLOW HOOD

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 958: THE YELLOW HOOD

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(Dynamic Comics 002, 1941) In probably the cheekiest campaign of terror ever, American defense officials are being murdered and then their shrunken skulls are being sent along to places where people are waiting for them with notes reading “Don’t wait for me any longer, here I am.” You may have noticed that all of the skull deliveries involved a man named Professor Curran, and being seasoned comics readers you rightly would have suspected that he was involved in the scheme somehow. It…

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MINOR SUPER-HERO ROUND-UP 090

MINOR SUPER-HERO ROUND-UP 090

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We’re simply up to our eyeballs in minor super-heroes! K-9: K-9, an injured German Shepherd (they call him a police dog but I think that that’s as an alternate breed name due to the war, like how the British call them Alsatians) nursed back to health and given a terrible name by scrappy teen Tip Starr, is given ample opportunity to fight crime thanks to his association with Tip’s brother, Police Detective Dick Starr. (Dynamic Comics 001, 1941) Categorized in:…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 957: THE PROFESSOR

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 957: THE PROFESSOR

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(Dynamic Comics v1 001, 1941) Unlike most Professors in comics, this fellow is seemingly not named that because he is a scientist but rather because he is a clever criminal. He and his powerful companion Hugo are hired by the evocatively-named Hell Gang to intercept and destroy some key evidence while it is en route from the District Attorney’s office to the courthouse where Hell Gang leadership is on trial. It’s not fair to blame the Professor for this because there’s no…

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GENERIC COSTUMED VILLAIN ROUND-UP 039

GENERIC COSTUMED VILLAIN ROUND-UP 039

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Those who also ran, we salute you.  Karl the Hermit: Karl, as his name implies, is a mean ol’ hermit who lives atop a mountain. He has has got himself a critter called the Thing that Walks Like a Man that he uses to act out his misanthropic impulses, such as when he sends it to kill his cousin Rushman. What is his motivation for doing all this? Don’t worry about it – he’s a crazy old hermit! Karl’s actions…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 956: THE EVIL EYE

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 956: THE EVIL EYE

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(Dynamic Comics 001, 1941) Lucky Coyne, private detective and man with the most complicated publishing history in comics* is hired by heiress Helen Jordan to solve a ghost problem in the mansion she has just inherited. The ghost in question, called the Evil Eye, obligingly makes an appearance just as she mentions him, with his signature “Weeeee… ha ha ha!” laugh. *Lucky Coyne appeared in comics by half a dozen publishers over the years, and operated as a police sergeant,…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 955: THE YELLOW SPOT

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 955: THE YELLOW SPOT

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(Dynamic Comics 001, 1941) Scientists across the US are going missing, kidnapped by  the magical madman known as the Yellow Spot! This brain-draining crime spree inspires the magical scholar Professor Moore to create the super-hero Dynamic Man, which in turn inspires the Yellow Spot to murder Professor Moore. He is just a wee bit too late, however, and instead of preventing the creation of Dynamic Man he merely provides him with a bit of extra motivation in the form of…

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MINOR SUPER-HERO ROUND-UP 089

MINOR SUPER-HERO ROUND-UP 089

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Just when you think that there couldn’t be any more super-heroes, another batch appears. Major Victory: After an unnamed soldier stationed at US Army Camp Courage dies in an attempt to prevent the camp’s arsenal from being bombed, his body is hauled away by angelic figures and ushered into the presence of a star-spangled old man. This, it turns out, is Father Patriot, a new and legally distinct anthropomorphic personification of the spirit of the United States. Were the folks…

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