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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 852: THE SUPER-SCIENTIST

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 852: THE SUPER-SCIENTIST

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(Weird Comics 008, 1940) The Sorceress of Zoom is up to her usual tricks: attempting to steal some random guy from his lady friend, getting mad that he won’t fall in love with her, attacking the city he lives in and turning their tank patrol (!) into a series of ornamental trees, and finally abducting people willy-nilly in order to turn them into furniture. Regular stuff. In the city council’s hour of need it is approached by an eccentrically dressed…

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ALIENS AND SO FORTH ROUND-UP 017

ALIENS AND SO FORTH ROUND-UP 017

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A panoply of wonders awaits. Karnak’s Slaves:  This otherwise-unnamed race from an unnamed planet get a pretty raw deal: conquered and mind-controlled into servitude by scientist Karnak, they all seemingly die when he does. It’s a real shame. (Weird Comics 007, 1940)  the Deadly Plants:  It’s hard to say much about the so-called “Deadly Plants” of planet Vegeto, aside from the fact that they work together to capture a handful of prospective human colonists and dump them in a pit,…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 851: MORGANA LE FAY

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 851: MORGANA LE FAY

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(Weird Comics 007, 1940) Here we are again with another Morgan(a) le Fay entry, our third in about a month and a half. Was there something in the water? This is also going to double as a micro Real Folk Round-Up, as all of the Arthurian characters who appear in the story are plot-relevant enough that I might as well detail them here as duplicate my effort. Our Real Folk start off with Sir Gareth, Knight of the Round Table, brother to…

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MAD AND CRIMINAL SCIENTIST ROUND-UP 020

MAD AND CRIMINAL SCIENTIST ROUND-UP 020

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If I’ve learned one thing from comics it’s to never turn your back on a scientist.  Henry Falcon is one of a trio of scientists, along with John Robin and John Sparrow, who have been made the beneficiaries of the whimsical will of millionaire Mortimer Bird. This is of course one of those special murder mystery wills in which the payout increases for any survivors as fellow inheritors are killed off, and Henry Falcon is all about getting that money…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 850: DR MORTAL

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 850: DR MORTAL

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(Weird Comics 001, 1940) Dr Mortal, in contrast to his fellow Weird Comics character the Sorceress of Zoom, is your typical comic-headlining super-villain, in that he is a mad scientist with an obsession with making monsters. Like most of his ilk, Mortal is opposed by a heterosexual couple of upstanding moral character, and in his specific case they are his niece Marlene Mortal and her lover Gary Brent (as Marlene’s surname is never actually given in print, I’m just making an assumption that…

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DEMONIC ROUND-UP 002

DEMONIC ROUND-UP 002

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Look out! Its demons! Lucifer:  Dastardly voodoo man the Voodoo Man has this version of Lucifer possess a young woman for some dang reason. He’s got a pretty good look with the sideburns and all, but is surprisingly easy to chase away with an anemically-presented crucifix. (Weird Comics 006, 1940) the Unholy One:  The Unholy One is an infernal servant of some kind who has been summoned as a sort of demonic search engine by the Green Sorceress. He appears…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 849: KEERO

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 849: KEERO

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(Weird Comics 005, 1940)  Blast Bennett, space adventurer of the year 5940, is just noodling around the galaxy one day and decides to stop off to stretch his legs on a desolate ice planet, at which point he falls in a hole and becomes embroiled in a civil war, because he is a comic book protagonist and his every move draws him closer to the nearest source of adventure.  The Ice Planet is ruled by the presumably-benevolent Empress Ilera –…

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ALIENS AND SO FORTH ROUND-UP 016

ALIENS AND SO FORTH ROUND-UP 016

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Love those aliens. And so forth.  the Sea Demons: The Sea Demons are a hostile underwater race of fish-men who look great but get very little character development as a society. Their main thing seems to be a deeps desire to attack and capture… the Sea Amazons: The Sea Amazons (described as “blonde Sea Amazons” at least twice in the text despite the fact that a pretty noticeable percentage of them – including their queen! – are brunettes) are about…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 848: DR HSIN

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 848: DR HSIN

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(Weird Comics 005, 1940)  There are exactly two reasons why I gave Dr Hsin his own entry rather than sticking him in the next Mad and Criminal Scientist Round-Up, and the first one is his creation/henchman Mako, aka the Perfect Man. I just can’t resist a man with a tube coming out of his head, especially when that man is some sort of cyborg frankenstein. The second reason is that Hsin’s plan – to steal the blood from hundreds of…

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ALIENS AND SO FORTH ROUND-UP 015

ALIENS AND SO FORTH ROUND-UP 015

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A veritable bounty of aliens for your perusal. People of Venus, the Jibbering Giant of Jupiter, Weird Inhabitants of the Strange Planet:  Blast Bennett has lost his little pal Red, and his solution is to just kind of bop around from planet to planet, asking random aliens if they have seen a red-headed guy. I’ve grouped these alien together because they all represent a very boring alien design trend of the 40s and 50s (and beyond!): the alien as just…

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