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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 410: THE BRAIN OF THE ROBOT

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 410: THE BRAIN OF THE ROBOT

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(Amazing Mystery Funnies v2 011, 1939)  I’ve started reading Mystery Men Comics, as seen at the top of the Sphinx entry, and the thing about Mystery Men Comics is that although it features the Blue Beetle, who by a circuitous chain of publication rights changing hands is now a DC Comics character, it also has a lot of other characters that aren’t currently owned by a media conglomerate! And although I mostly write about DC and Marvel characters because I…

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NOTES – DECEMBER 2023

NOTES – DECEMBER 2023

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Weaknesses:  A very specific weakness for the Spectre: a once-in-a-hundred-million-year alignment of constellations that surely will never happen again. (More Fun Comics 071, 1941) Misc: This is my first encounter with Golden Age Johnny Quick so I’m not sure if the slow-down formula that he uses in the third panel above is a regular thing or a one-off but it sure has been left by the wayside. (More Fun Comics 071, 1941) EDIT: He does it again in More Fun…

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MINOR SUPER-HERO 019: THE CLOCK

MINOR SUPER-HERO 019: THE CLOCK

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(Funny Picture Stories/ Funny Pages/ Feature Comics/ Crack Comics, 1936-1944) The Clock has the distinction of probably being the earliest masked crimefighter and definitely that of being the earliest one to stick around, which would make him the earliest super-hero if Dr Occult hadn’t made his debut in 1935. A lot of the details about him are fairly cliché, both because they were cribbed from existing pulp clichés and because the Clock helped define the clichés of the genre. So:…

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MINOR SUPER-HEROES 007-014: AMAZING-MAN COMICS ROUNDUP 1939

MINOR SUPER-HEROES 007-014: AMAZING-MAN COMICS ROUNDUP 1939

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(Amazing-Man Comics 005-026, 1939-1942) All the ephemeral Golden Age heroes who stalked the pages of Amazing-Man Comics: The Iron Skull! I love him. His origin and so forth is doled out after a few issues so initially you don’t know that he is a cyborg war casualty in the far future world of 1970. The most important things are there from the start, though: his huge anime eyes and the fact that every bullet or attack made against him unerringly…

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MINOR SUPER-HERO 006 AMAZING-MAN

MINOR SUPER-HERO 006 AMAZING-MAN

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(Amazing-Man Comics 005-026, 1939-1942, plus various other Centaur books) Amazing-Man is not particularly obscure: he was supposedly the inspiration for both Iron Fist and Peter Cannon, Thunderbolt and eventually ended up dropped whole cloth into both one of the Malibu universes and the Marvel Universe (which, yes, means he’s technically in the Marvel Universe twice but if Malibu comics ever comes back in any substantial way I will make and consume an edible hat). The thing I always focused on…

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