The Curse of Skeleton Munroe

Category: Super Ann

  • CATALOGUE OF WOUNDS 009

    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 clutching his head but the gun is aimed at his torso as it fires. Guess we’ll file this under “shot, unspecified.” (Exciting Comics 012, 1941)

    the Black Fury:

    Shot in the left shoulder and tossed out of a moving car. (Fantastic Comics 020, 1941)

    Chuck:

    The Black Fury’s sidekick Chuck is shot in the ever-popular left shoulder and knocked clean off of a building by one of the Fang’s henchmen, but makes out okay nonetheless. (Fantastic Comics 019, 1941)

    Dr Hypno: 

    I never expected a fellow whose whole shtick is putting his mind into animal bodies to get mixed up in the action enough to take a wound, but here he is: poor ol’ Dr Hypno getting branded on the chest by a crook. (Amazing-Man Comics 018, 1940)

    the Mask:

    The Mask, in his civilian identity of District Attorney Tony Colby, joins the “skull creased by a bullet” club. EDIT: I wrote this without checking and it turns out that this is the second time that the Mask’s skull has been creased, so he was already a member of the club. My apologies. (Exciting Comics 011, 1941)

    Mighty Man:

    Mighty Man gets shot through the left shoulder. Considering his size at the time (enormous) he’s lucky that the guy didn’t score a headshot. (Amazing-Man Comics 014, 1940)

    the Shark:

    The Shark (temporarily weakened by the loss of his magic knife) gets whipped with belts by a bunch of jerk Nazis. (Amazing-Man Comics 011, 1940)

    A couple of issue later, the Shark gets stabbed in the gut by his own dang knife. Yes, the stab wound is swiftly turned back on his attacker by the weapon’s magic, but you can’t tell me that the Shark doesn’t get stabbed first. (Amazing-Man Comics 013, 1940)

    Super Ann:

    In one of Super Ann’s handful of adventures she gets a real one-two: a bullet-creased scalp followed by a near-drowning. (Amazing-Man Comics 025, 1941)

  • MINOR SUPER-HERO ROUND-UP 002

    Still lotsa super-heroes to add.

    the Marksman: 

    Single appearance hero trained by his father to be completely accurate with thrown or projectile weapons. Uses the alias John Courage. Throws a spear through a guy’s head one time. (Amazing-Man Comics 023, 1941)

    Miraco the Great:

    Circus magician with real powers. His one adventure involved running a sex pest gorilla trainer out of the circus. (Amazing-Man Comics 023, 1941)

    Super Ann:

    A young woman who was given super strength by a weird old cave-dwelling alien man as a child. She’s very charming! I particularly like how straightforward her crimefighting is – most of the time she just walks up and punches a fool, as someone who grew up with super strength might. This does leave her vulnerable to sneaky attacks, but lucky for her her fellow hero Mighty Man has decided to follow her around and keep her out of trouble. (Amazing-Man Comics 024, 1941)

    And speaking of Mighty Man…

    Mighty Man Update:

    When Mighty Man debuted he was just a 12 foot tall guy, then in Amazing-Man Comics 012 a scientist performed an operation on him that allowed him to change his size at will (and then promptly got himself murdered, natch). At first he could merely grow and shrink but pretty quickly he developed more refined shapechanging abilities, including changing his appearance and, most upsettingly, changing the size of individual parts of his body. By the time he began shadowing Super Ann, Mighty Man was just as likely to be a weird little gremlin with one huge arm, or, as in the panel above, a big ear in order to freak out a goon or Nazi. Unpleasant!