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GENERIC COSTUMED VILLAIN ROUND-UP 032

GENERIC COSTUMED VILLAIN ROUND-UP 032

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A more fantastical bunch of genericos than usual! How fun! Benjie Frazier:  This mysterious cloaked figure hires femme fatale Sonia, aka Princess Cleo, to help him drive all of the inhabitants out of “center of New York society” Formal Park (99% certain that this is a substitution for former real-life society hub Tuxedo Park). To that end, the pair deploy such tools as squads of hooded goons, a mysteriously appearing brand to indicate that their victims have suffered “the Pharaoh’s Curse”, and…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 044 UPDATE: THE MASK 1941

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 044 UPDATE: THE MASK 1941

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Some highlights of the Mask‘s career c. 1941. The Mask starts off 1941 with a bag, quite literally, as he attempts to blow up a munitions factory with FDR inside of it. (Whiz Comics 012, 1941) He’s at it again in the next issue, with another plot to kill FDR – this time by dropping a time bomb on the roof of the White House. He’s an ambitious guy, the Mask. Fortunately for the President, he is also a guy…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 902: MAGNIFICUS SIVANA

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 902: MAGNIFICUS SIVANA

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(Whiz Comics 015, 1941) After Captain Marvel foils a scheme to be described further in the next Dr Sivana update, he finds himself battling a beefcake named Magnificus. Though Magnificus is ultimately not a match for Captain Marvel, he is powerful enough to duke it out with him for several minutes, which is frankly just as impressive. Since they are doing so on the side of a mountain, however, this starts a landslide that seem like it might just spell the end…

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ALIENS AND SO FORTH ROUND-UP 025

ALIENS AND SO FORTH ROUND-UP 025

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We’re going heavy on the ape-man content this time.  Ape-Men:  These Ape-Men, like most ape men, are some sort of human offshoot population or remnant of another species of homo living in the isolated depths of, in this case, the Amazon jungle. They come into conflict with Doctor Voodoo after breaking their long-held peace treaty with his allies the Blancas and abducting many of them for human sacrifice. Also they use silver arrows for some unexplained reason. (Whiz Comics 013, 1941) Ape-Men: …

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 901: XYZ

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 901: XYZ

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(Whiz Comics 014, 1941)  Dan Dare exists in a world rife with crime in which he is seemingly the only person capable of solving an moderate-to-difficult mystery. Thus, he and his assistant/lover Carol Clews constantly fly from city to city capturing crooks, while Carol fruitlessly attempts to steal Dan away for a much-needed vacation. In this particular installment, Dan and Carol have been summoned to Chicago by TL Thornton, Publisher of the Daily Clarion and subject of a terror campaign…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 900: TRUG

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 900: TRUG

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(Whiz Comics 013, 1941)  Trug is a student of magic and of Ibis the Invincible specifically who creeps out of the shadows after Ibis and Taia’s ward Tommy has defeated his school’s boxing champion and tempts the despondent youth into stealing the Ibistick for him (the sad boy is then turned into a tree and then never mentioned again – very sad). Trug’s Ibis scholarship extends beyond kind of dressing like him and knowing where his extended family hang out…

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REAL PERSON ROUND-UP 020

REAL PERSON ROUND-UP 020

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Where would comic books be without real people, after all? Easter Island:  Lance O’Casey and his pal Dan’l Doom fight some wreckers on Easter island, and while I can’t tell if the place saw enough ship traffic in the 1940s to make shipwrecking a profitable enterprise, I will say that the concept of Lance and Dan’l just casually passing by one of the most isolated islands in the Pacific Ocean while travelling from place to place is an eyebrow raiser. The whole…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 899: THE BIG SHOT

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 899: THE BIG SHOT

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(Whiz Comics 012, 1941) The city of Watertown is under the thumb of a mysterious crime lord known only as the Big Shot, and Edward Lucas, the Special Prosecutor in charge of tracking the Big Shot down, has been shot and killed just before a meeting with Watertown District Attorney Harper. Enter super sleuth Dan Dare and his associate Carol Clews to pick up the trail and finish Lucas’ last case. The most obvious suspect is of course DA Harper,…

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FASCIST GOON CLEARING HOUSE 011

FASCIST GOON CLEARING HOUSE 011

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The fools! The fascist fools. the Steel Guard:  The Steel Guard are a home-grown fascist group in the Balkan country of Murania, who plot to sell out their country and its oil wells to the Nazis. They fail to recognize the threat inherent in leaving a camera in the hands of crack magazine photographer Fran Frazer and she ruins their entire setup with a few evidence-heavy snaps. (Top-Notch Comics 010, 1940) the Redshirts:  The Redshirts are a homegrown US fascist…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 898: THE DEATH BATTALION

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 898: THE DEATH BATTALION

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(America’s Greatest Comics 001, 1941) Like Mr Skeleton before them (and possibly because I first encountered them both in the same comic), the Death Battalion is one of those super-villain concepts that really lodged itself in my brain and which I am glad to have finally appear here. Unfortunately, unlike Mr Skeleton, the Death Battalion isn’t quite as great as I’d remembered. For one thing, I’d long thought that they were a Mr Scarlet revenge squad, but despite the fact that he…

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