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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 925: THE IRON-JAW

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 925: THE IRON-JAW

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(Silver Streak Comics 009, 1941) The US is being rocked by a series of explosions targeting munitions factories and other facilities contributing to national defense, and not even the speed of the Silver Streak is enough to combat the organizational skills and coordination of the mysterious mastermind behind them. It is only by sheer coincidence that he happens upon an imperilled security guard from a plant in Georgia and learns from him that the men who blew up his workplace…

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ALIENS AND SO FORTH ROUND-UP 028

ALIENS AND SO FORTH ROUND-UP 028

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Dudes come in all kinds of shapes nowadays. Walrus Men: We first encounter the Walrus Men in Champ Comics 013 when the newly-reformed Neptina goes to them to ask for help in reclaiming the throne of Amloza from her sister Mhersa, only to discover that the friendly Prince Eon has been overthrown and that the Walrus Men are now ruled by the expansionist tyrant King Walro. Not that Walro is unopposed in his rule, as there are still Eon loyalists willing…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 924: MOLO

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 924: MOLO

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(Silver Streak Comics 008, 1941) A killer stalks the entertainment industry! Prominent  people are being murdered, including Academy Award winner Kay Kaye, opera singer Lily Donela and Dick Bradley, recent recipient of the Nobel Prize for “the best play of the year” which I suppose would be for literature? And also very impressive because the Nobel Prize was suspended in 1941 due to the war? In total, nine luminaries of the stage and screen have been killed as the story…

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MINOR SUPER-HERO ROUND-UP 078

MINOR SUPER-HERO ROUND-UP 078

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Lev Gleason characters for EVERYONE! Daredevil **UPDATE**: Daredevil had but one appearance in 1940, so it’s no surprise that the character still had some changes and revisions to go once 1941 rolled around. Firstly, his costume gets an update, with yellow swapped out for red and the complicated “DD” design on the abdomen dropped entirely. The most dramatic change, however, is that the Daredevil can now talk. Just how Bart Hill’s traumatic muteness was alleviated is unaddressed – I’m sure that the real…

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CATALOGUE OF WOUNDS 004

CATALOGUE OF WOUNDS 004

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More wounds for the wound god! American Ace: Minor Marvel adventure hero Parry Wade, aka the American Ace, is riddled through the torso and crashes his plane after a dogfight. He gets better. (Marvel Mystery Comics v1 003, 1940) Black X: Shot in the left shoulder by agents of Vlamir Koran, then nearly dies of exposure while seeking aid. (Smash Comics 001, 1939) Black X’s aide Batu gets shot in the left shoulder on his next mission, while Black X…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 923: PROFESSOR SKINN

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 923: PROFESSOR SKINN

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(Silver Streak Comics 007, 1941) The Skinn family is being killed off – at least seven of them have been murdered on their birthdays, leaving only the odius Mortimer Skinn, and he soon follows, despite police protection.  Boy Inventor Dickie Dean hasn’t been idle while this campaign of murder has been going on: thanks to a surveillance balloon he raised over the town for the purpose, he and his pal Zip Todd are able to track the culprit to his…

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MINOR SUPER-HERO ROUND-UP 077

MINOR SUPER-HERO ROUND-UP 077

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Please enjoy about half of the Great Comics stable of characters.   Kangaroo Man: The Kangaroo Man is Jack Brian, who gets his name thanks to his animal companion: Bingo, an astonishingly well-trained kangaroo.  Jack might be a pretty standard comic book adventurer, but Bingo, though his vocabulary is limited to a “rsp, rsp” sound, is of seemingly near-human intelligence and able to act essentially as another human character in the strip. Here’s Bingo parachuting out of an airplane, for example….

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 922: GENGHIS KHAN

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 922: GENGHIS KHAN

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(Champ Comics 015, 1941) Okay, Genghis Khan. A lot of guys in comics like to call themselves Genghis Khan or claim to be his successor etc, and importantly they all seem to be into all the old Genghis Khan stuff like horse archers. Absolutely 100% stuff that Genghis was into at the time he was around of course, but I personally think that he would enjoy a machine gun if he had the chance.  Duke “the Human Meteor” O’Dowd is…

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GENERIC COSTUMED VILLAIN ROUND-UP 037

GENERIC COSTUMED VILLAIN ROUND-UP 037

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For the first time in a very long time: the generic costumed villains all have costumes!  Unnamed Costumed Gang:  This unnamed gang has gone to a heckuva lot of trouble to steal the Kalaka Emerald from millionaire Byron Nelson: they’ve dug out a secret lair under his weird mesa-top home, murdered several of his guests in order to create terror and of course dressed up like the background characters in a costume party scene, presumably also in order to create…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 921: THE SCALY DRAGON

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 921: THE SCALY DRAGON

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(Champ Comics 014, 1941) The Scaly Dragon is what I would consider to be a very by-the-book fascist saboteur with a better-than-average name. He does have a couple of noteworthy things about him though, including 1. the fact that he is a pseudo-Imperial Japanese spy rather than the much more common pseudo-Nazis that we usually see. 2. Though the Scaly Dragon’s first couple of efforts were aimed at sabotaging the water supply of New York City (which is where the Human…

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