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MONSTER, CREATURE AND CRITTER ROUND-UP 009

MONSTER, CREATURE AND CRITTER ROUND-UP 009

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What’s the difference between a monster, a creature and a critter? Never you mind. Devil Flower: These carnivorous plants are cultivated by the spy Mister K for use in assassinations and in a classic payoff the carnivorous plant grower eventually becomes carnivorous plant food. (More Fun Comics 068, 1941) Giant Octopus: Not only is this giant cephalopod a great example of the octopus giant humanoid head but its attack on Navy Jones and Princess Coral serves as a meet cute…

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MONSTER, CRITTER AND CREATURE ROUND-UP 008

MONSTER, CRITTER AND CREATURE ROUND-UP 008

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Monster of Space: This very fun monster menaces the Spectre and gangster Knife Groggins during a trip to the astral plane intended to frighten Groggins into talking. One visit to the depths of the beast’s very fun oubliette tummy and the job is done. I really appreciate how weirdly proportioned this fellow is – it’s a good way to convey its unearthly nature. (More Fun Comics 065, 1941) On an unplanned trip to the occult realms in More Fun Comics…

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SUPER-HERO FILE 012: DOCTOR OCCULT

SUPER-HERO FILE 012: DOCTOR OCCULT

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(New Fun Comics 006, 1935)  Doctor Occult debuts in the final two issues of New Fun Comics and then appears in More Fun Comics through to issue 033 in 1938. Much of his deal is summed up in this single page that is the entirety of that first appearance: a trenchcoat-clad supernatural detective with a mystic symbol that kind of looks like a hypno-coin and an assistant named Rose Psychic*, Doctor Occult is the very first DC Comics character who…

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ALIENS AND SO FORTH ROUND-UP 063

ALIENS AND SO FORTH ROUND-UP 063

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They may not all be actual aliens, but they are all aliens and so forth. M’Bujies: We only really hear about the M’Bujies from the mouth of soldier/Blue Tracer sidekick Boomerang Jones, which makes me want to take his words with a pinch of salt, given, you know, the history of the world and whatnot. On the other hand, he is one of the protagonists of a fairly uncomplicated adventure comic so we can probably take most of the information…

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ALIENS AND SO FORTH ROUND-UP 060

ALIENS AND SO FORTH ROUND-UP 060

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 We all love aliens here. And so forth. Antons: The Antons are the inhabitants of the wandering planet Torsa, which spins out of space one day and takes up an orbit around the Earth. Soon the Antons are raining down on our planet in a full-fledged invasion, though it is never made clear if this has all been a series of cosmic coincidences leading to these two inhabited spheres being in such close proximity or if the Antons have employed…

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ALIENS AND SO FORTH ROUND-UP 059

ALIENS AND SO FORTH ROUND-UP 059

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Have you seen any of these aliens (and so forth)? Onees: The Onees are a light-sensitive underground-dwelling race that, this being the Marvel Universe, have probably been retroactively declared some type of Deviant subspecies. Whatever they are, they have a plan: to pull all the iron on the surface of the Earth underground with their suction-ray and use it to throw the planet into an orbit further from the sun, thus allowing them to conquer the newly-dim planet. Their unnamed…

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MONSTER, CRITTER AND CREATURE ROUND-UP 005

MONSTER, CRITTER AND CREATURE ROUND-UP 005

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You won’t catch me not having a whole lot of monsters to show you. the Elipticoon: True to his name, the wicked Sophus, the Mad Philosopher engages in a slightly more abstract version of villainy in which he traps people in a pan-dimensional maze and delights in their despair (okay, this is pretty standard villainy, I’ll admit it. I just like the name). A major feature of this maze is the Hall of the Elipticoon, which houses its namesake, a…

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MONSTER, CRITTER AND CREATURE ROUND-UP 004

MONSTER, CRITTER AND CREATURE ROUND-UP 004

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Everyone likes a good monster now and then. Horned Cat: With every one of these round-ups I accrue more evidence that the Slightly Different Big Cat is one of the classic monster types, as seen here when Congo Jack is confronted with this horned green feline in the mystical Valley of Vango in the Congolese jungle. As a bonus, a few steps later he has to deal with another classic: the carnivorous plant, or in this case flesh-eating bush. (Lightning…

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MONSTER, CRITTER AND CREATURE ROUND-UP 003

MONSTER, CRITTER AND CREATURE ROUND-UP 003

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I hope everyone likes monsters as much as I do because there are a whole lot of them to cover. Beaked Tyros: When polar explorer Anthony Conrad gets lost in an Arctic storm and falls through a hole in the pack ice, he reasonably expects to meet his demise. Instead, he falls into the subterranean kingdom of Artica and is chosen by the elderly Artican king – also a stranded former surface explorer – as his successor.  As part of…

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ALIENS AND SO FORTH ROUND-UP 053

ALIENS AND SO FORTH ROUND-UP 053

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Aliens.  Molemen: These green-skinned humanoids live in an underground kingdom somewhere beneath what was then known as the Belgian Congo. They have been sent to the surface to find some white men – and just why they subscribe to the racial categories of surface humanity is left unexplored – and woe betide any non-white guys who they encounter first. The Molemen expedition eventually captures jungle adventurer Congo Jack and returns to the underground with him. Alas, we never quite learn…

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