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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 728: THE GREAT BRAIN

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 728: THE GREAT BRAIN

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(Science Comics 007, 1940) Perisphere Payne, futureman of the year 2000, has his work cut out for him when six Earth battle rockets go missing and then subsequently attack their home planet! And upon defeating their seemingly traitorous crews, Payne discovers that they are being remotely mind controlled via a chunky black box stuck to each of their backs in a place that looks like it would be pretty annoying to live with. Good thing they’re mind controlled and presumably…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 727: VOLTON

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 727: VOLTON

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(Science Comics 006, 1940) In the Science Comics 005, Dynamo develops his Brain-Wave Trap helmet which allows him to read the minds of everyone on Earth. Now, only one issue later, we discover that the range of this device is in fact interstellar, and furthermore that Dynamo can travel to other stars, as he receives a call for help from King Berin of Betelguese (sic) and gets himself there almost instantly – that’s somewhere between four and six hundred light…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 726: PROFESSOR MEIER

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 726: PROFESSOR MEIER

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(Science Comics 005, 1940) Professor Meier, a scientist, seeks to conquer the world by unleashing an ever-growing horde of mutated life forms from his jungle HQ. This is all pretty regular stuff and he probably would have been tossed into the regular science round-up, only there are a couple of fun things that Meier brings to the table that I would like to highlight. First off, the mutated beasts themselves are a pretty fun design, a sort of lion/monkey/caveman/eagle chimera,…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 725: THE SEA-WITCH

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 725: THE SEA-WITCH

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(Science Comics 005, 1940) En route to the court of King Neptune to deliver a new invention to him, Navy Jones and Princess Coral find themselves the prisoner of a heinous-looking clarinet-playing mermaid who looks a lot like something out of a 19th Century political cartoon. I’ll be honest here: while the Sea-Witch is a notable-enough villain to cover here, the real attraction of this comic is that it all looks like an outsider art fever dream. The Grand Comics…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 724: BONTO OF DUOTANIA

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 724: BONTO OF DUOTANIA

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(Science Comics 004, 1940)  Perisphere Payne, a kind of outer space troubleshooter (whose name, by the way, was meant to sound cool and futuristic but because the Perisphere was one of the cool and futuristic building-mascots of the 1939 World’s Fair is in fact equivalent to someone today calling themselves Crystal Palace Collins, Parthenon Pete, or indeed Perisphere Payne) gets a wild alert on his televizo one day: the entire city of Freeton has been levitated off the surface of…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 723: IAKO

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 723: IAKO

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(Science Comics 004, 1940) Cosmic Carson is a fairly generic space hero whose main distinction up to this point was that each issue he fought a different kind of alien with a cool species name (from Science Comics 001 and going forward: the Fang-Men of Jupiter, the Skull-Men and the Hoof-Men), but other than that he wasn’t really of interest to us on this here blog. Until now, that is, because Science Comics 004 features a Cosmic Carson adventure illustrated…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 722: DR DOOM

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 722: DR DOOM

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(Science Comics 003, 1940) Flashback to my times in the Fiction House content-recycling mines of Planet Comics! What we have here is a Dr Doom story nestled snugly into an issue of Science Comics just where Dr Doom stories always go, but it’s not the right Dr Doom! Was this a story about a different science villain that was renamed to fit the space, or did “Richard Crater” (Dick Briefer, possibly) just kind of freestyle a fill-in gig and go…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 721: THE GENIUS

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 721: THE GENIUS

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(Science Comics 003, 1940) Dynamo has been stirring up trouble in the Unspecified City underworld. He’s captured Rats Rako and a significant portion of his gang and now Rats’ lieutenant Gun Ramey must figure out just how to deal with a superhuman do-gooder. It’s lucky for him that Unspecified City has a resident criminal scientist, the Genius (ignore the fact that they’re calling him Electro, this is from his first adventure before he changes it). I’ll be honest, my first…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 720: DR DOOM

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 720: DR DOOM

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(Science Comics 001, 1940) Dr Doom, another super-villain with his own series (I swear that they’re rare over all but 1940 sure is a fertile year for them), lives in an unspecified future and is your classic mad science polymath, as demonstrated by his various schemes: In his very first outing, Dr Doom decides to do some extreme testing of his latest formula and uses it to shrink Jan and Wanda, two otherwise-nondescript youths who just happen to also be…

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GENERIC COSTUMED VILLAIN ROUND-UP 018

GENERIC COSTUMED VILLAIN ROUND-UP 018

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The hits flops just keep coming. This gang doesn’t bother to give themself a proper name even though their scheme is extremely big and loud: they have access to a magnetic ray device and have employed it to pull down multiple large buildings in scenic Midtown City, thus killing between one and four thousand people (a printing error obscures the exact number), all so that their demands for protection money from the owners of other buildings will be paid without…

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