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MINOR SUPER-HERO ROUND-UP 061

MINOR SUPER-HERO ROUND-UP 061

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Superfolk galore!  the Buzzard:  In an unnamed New-York-alike city, the gadgeteering mayor equips a young man with a suite of devices to help him engage in a vigilante crusade against crime. Chief among these gadgets is a gas that makes whomever it touches resemble a balding, big-nosed man in thick glasses and a tailcoat – the perfect disguise! Armed with this gas, plus some clawed gloves and a heat ray, the Buzzard begins tearing his way through the city’s underworld. …

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DIVINE ROUND-UP 012

DIVINE ROUND-UP 012

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Craig Carter’s whole deal is summoning ancient gods out of his ring, and since he only had two issues in which to do so I am able to offer you a complete list of them here. With pictures! Zeus:  Zeus acts as the spokesgod of Craig Carter’s magic ring, and seems to be the one in charge of summoning forth the other deities. He’s called the “god of wisdom” here. I dig his little crown. (Wham Comics 001, 1940) Pegasus:…

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REAL PERSON ROUND-UP 018

REAL PERSON ROUND-UP 018

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World leaders and others.  Adolf Hitler:  I’m pretty sure that the “Navy Jones” strip is set in an undefined near-future time, which makes the Dictator of Europe here a future analog of Adolf Hitler rather than a stand-in for him. I’m almost certain that that’s the case. Anyway, he tries to invade the US with a fleet of amphibious tanks and gets his ass handed to him by Navy Jones and his fish men. (Weird Comics 008, 1940) Chiang Kai-shek and Soong…

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GENERIC COSTUMED VILLAIN ROUND-UP 026

GENERIC COSTUMED VILLAIN ROUND-UP 026

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A wretched and motley crew for ye this day.  Mikal, leader of the undersea pirates, is an evocative figure who exists only to pad out the Typhon story that he appears in by a couple of pages. In an attempt to aid his ally, the king of the Sea Demons, he gets off one good hydro-jet blast at Typhon’s submarine before he and his entire undersea fortress are annihilated by the sub’s hydro-ray. (Weird Comics 005, 1940) Friends, I am…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 858: THE FROST

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 858: THE FROST

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(Wham Comics 002, 1940) Just after Blue Fire gets his powers and vows to use them to beat up “criminals, racketeers and foreign spies” he is served a chance to do so on a silver platter when his local newspaper carries an account of a ship at sea being sabotaged by a very cold man who just stood around in the engine room until everything broke.  Making his way to the ship in question, Blue Fire uses his intangibility power…

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MINOR SUPER-HERO ROUND-UP 060

MINOR SUPER-HERO ROUND-UP 060

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Some of those reeeeal obscure guys today.  Craig Carter: Archaeologist Craig Carter wants to give up all the stuffy academia and become a crime fighter, and since he lives in a comic book universe, the very day he tells his girlfriend about this objectively bad decision he receives a magical ring in the mail from an old colleague whose life he had saved. This ring grants its wearer the ability to summon the gods of antiquity to aid them –…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 857: THE KING

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 857: THE KING

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(Wham Comics 001, 1940) In what is sadly the final appearance of Speed Centaur, he and his pal “Reel” McCoy travel to the Arctic ruins of the City of Centaurs to explore Speed’s birthplace. Almost immediately upon setting foot inside, they are ambushed and captured by wild-eyed men who escort them to their leader, a man called the King, who unusually has gone with an eccentric hair choice in every available part of his face but the mustache zone, and…

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ALIENS AND SO FORTH ROUND-UP 012

ALIENS AND SO FORTH ROUND-UP 012

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You won’t believe these guys.  the Mermen:  Some undersea jerks who capture explorer Typhon and his crew. Their leader is a real creep named Neptune who has a nigh-fetishistic plan to freeze the crew – and particularly sole female crewmember Cecelia – into blocks of ice and then breathe fire on them. Luckily for all who might venture beneath the waves, he drowns (?) during Typhon’s escape. (Weird Comics 002, 1940) the Beaked Men: The Beaked Men of Mercury’s mountains…

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ALIENS AND SO FORTH ROUND-UP 011

ALIENS AND SO FORTH ROUND-UP 011

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What ho! Aliens! Martians:  These Martians attack Earth for reasons that will remain unclear forever, because the story they appear in never actually gets an ending. In fact, they never even show their faces, instead attacking from their very cool-looking ships and sending their very cool-looking robots to act as ground troops. The initial invasion is driven off by superhuman scientist Greg Gilday and his associate Joan and then the Martians just never bother to return for another shot. (War…

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ALIENS AND SO FORTH ROUND-UP 010

ALIENS AND SO FORTH ROUND-UP 010

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Oh those rascally aliens. the Grey Hordes from the Center of the Earth:  The Grey Hordes from the Center of the Earth, aka the Grey Men, have been bombing London for unclear reasons using hard-to-see transparent planes. War correspondent Danny Dash and his associate Shamrock “Mac” McGlynn (!) stumble upon a group of them in the English countryside after their car is wrecked by a mysterious bomb-throwing glowing limousine, but since the “Danny Dash” feature never concluded we never really…

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