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FASCIST GOON CLEARING HOUSE 015

FASCIST GOON CLEARING HOUSE 015

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If there’s one thing I know it’s that the world has a seemingly-inexhaustible supply of odious little fascist worms. the All-American League: The All-American League is nothing so exciting as your Nazi spies trying to poison the reservoir or prevent and/or encourage the US entrance into WWII. Instead, they are the more banal type of fascism that is popular nowadays, in which patriotism is weaponized as a way to enrich and empower a few petty men (yes, yes that’s what…

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NOTES: AUGUST 2026

NOTES: AUGUST 2026

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the Looming Spectre of Death: An impressive Grim Reaper complete with bloody scythe and optional army helmet looms over an Alaskan town in this Liberty Scouts Guards tale. (Man of War Comics 001, 1941) Cops Shooting at Fleeing Suspects: It’s a good thing that these cops don’t quite manage to murder the Raven for aggressively running away from them like this, because they all know his alter ego Danny Dartin and it’s the one time they would actually feel bad…

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NOTES – JULY 2026

NOTES – JULY 2026

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Honours: Pilot Bill Barnes is almost certainly awarded the Victoria Cross for blowing up a Nazi gas stockpile. He also gets a pie. (Bill Barnes, America’s Air Ace Comics 004, 1941) The Liberty Scouts are given nonspecific (but secret) medals for saving NYC from being destroyed. Strut also gets a pie. (Liberty Scouts Comics 002, 1941)

ALIENS AND SO FORTH ROUND-UP 047

ALIENS AND SO FORTH ROUND-UP 047

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It’s more of those dastardly (and not-so-dastardly) aliens! Zutarians: One day while on a trip to visit his magic brother in-law who lives on the sun, the Golden Knight and Alice are thrown off course and crash on planet Zutarn, where they are picked up by some friendly-yet-threatening Zutarians. As is often the case in Golden Age comics, the exact location of Zutarn is not stated – for bookkeeping reasons I’m going to say it’s in an unspecified star system,…

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CATALOGUE OF WOUNDS 009

CATALOGUE OF WOUNDS 009

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How can we have nice things if they keep getting so dinged up? the Black Terror: It might look like the Black Terror (‘s secret identity) is knocked out by falling down a flight of stairs onto his head, but according to him it was actually a bullet creasing the old skull that did the trick. (Exciting Comics 010, 1941) This is a tough one: the Black Terror is shot and nearly killed, and he kind of seems to be…

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ALIENS AND SO FORTH ROUND-UP 046

ALIENS AND SO FORTH ROUND-UP 046

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Good lord! Aliens! Mupha’s Species: Mupha, ruler of the undersea Land of Peril, is the kind of creep who sends his subjects to kidnap women to become his queen. This eventually brings him into conflict with underwater adventurer Sub Saunders -not because Sub is looking for kidnappees but because he happens to pass by the Land of Peril and makes Mupha nervous enough to open fire on his submarine. As Mupha appears to have only two subjects we must assume…

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ALIENS AND SO FORTH ROUND-UP 041

ALIENS AND SO FORTH ROUND-UP 041

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Once again I am inviting you to look at some aliens. Martian Sky-Demons: We only really ever see the space fleet belonging to these Martians, who have thrown in with the Axis forces to lend their “long-range, disintegrating super-bombs” to the invasion of North America. What they look like is left as just as much a mystery as what they are getting out this alliance with the Nazis. The Sky-Demons end up wasting their payload of super-bombs on a replica…

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MEDIA IN COMICS 003

MEDIA IN COMICS 003

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We’ve hit a rich seam of comic book movies this time, by Jove. Movies: Eaglets of America is a film about flying cadets, filmed at the same field that aspiring pilot Lucky Byrd trains at. There is some unpleasantness with a lecherous leading man, alas, but it all gets sorted by the end. (Target Comics v1 002, 1940) The 1933 film the Prizefighter and the Lady, starring boxer Max Baer opposite Myrna Loy, was a real touchstone back during the…

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MEDIA IN COMICS 002

MEDIA IN COMICS 002

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Fictional books, fictional movies, fictional stage shows: it’s media in comics time!  Books: Dexter, a friend of Ellsworth “the Sphinx” Forrester, has written a book titled Who’s Who in Murder which is one of those grand exposes that causes everyone in crimedom to attempt to kill the author before they can publish. That’s gotta be great publicity. (Exciting Comics 010, 1941) While Guns Make Dust is very plot relevant in this Ellery Queen mystery, as a doped-up stamp thief hides his…

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