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MINOR SUPER-HERO ROUND-UP 004

MINOR SUPER-HERO ROUND-UP 004

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the Lone Warrior (and Dicky):  The Lone Warrior and Dicky are Stan and Dicky Carter, son of the now-deceased “world’s greatest scientist” and recipients of his Power Elixir injections, leaving them generically physically enhanced and well-equipped to battle pseudo-Nazi forces seeking to wreck America’s military. Plus he made them a land/ air/ sea plane/tank called the Wonder Ship which is very useful. There is of course a knee-jerk impulse to snidely point out that a guy called the Lone Warrior…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 480: PORKY HOGG

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 480: PORKY HOGG

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(Big 3 002, 1940) Obviously the most remarkable thing about Porky Hogg is that he looks like a pig-man but more than that he is a pig-man who has a real gift for motivation and teambuilding. These gangsters are worked into a dang frenzy over the prospect of killing the Blue Beetle – I’m pretty sure they killed that guy in the third panel! – if Porky Hogg had the real Beetle on hand during this little rally they might…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 479: DR BLOOD

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 479: DR BLOOD

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(Big 3 001, 1940) There are a couple of interesting things about Dr Blood but I’ll be honest: it’s mostly the name. Great, over the top villain moniker, Dr Blood. Furthermore, Dr Blood runs a costumed gang called the Inner Crime Ring, which is not nearly as good a name as Dr Blood but still better than an unnamed collection of gangsters. What Dr Blood is a doctor of is hard to say. The Inner Crime Ring has access to…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 478: BORGO

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 478: BORGO

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(Big 3 001, 1940) Here’s the thing about Borgo: they call him the Mirror Murderer in the opening blurb and then never do so again, even though he kills several people using mirrors. It’s a good name and I’m sad that I can’t justify using it so I’ll keep this short. Borgo’s got one goal in life and that’s to kill the five scientific James Brothers, seemingly because one of them fired him for stealing radium. Is it rational to…

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FASCIST GOON CLEARING HOUSE 006

FASCIST GOON CLEARING HOUSE 006

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Who will rid me of these fascist goons? The Nordland Bund is another German-American Bund analog but operates as more of a traditional spy operation on behalf of Nazi Germany stand-in Prussland. Their moderately complicated plan to get explosive coal onto US ships leaving Bermuda is foiled by Secret Agent D-13 and his Canadian counterpart/ love interest Lorraine MacAlinn (Mystery Men Comics 019, 1941) Like the man’s feet say, the Hoops are a bunch of Nazis (proper Nazis – Fox…

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MINOR SUPER-HERO ROUND-UP 001

MINOR SUPER-HERO ROUND-UP 001

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Some minor super-heroes I only have a small amount to say about: the Wraith: The Wraith is a very similar concept to the Spectre: a murdered cop comes back to mete out justice. They even have the same white/ green colour scheme, only reversed. A few things about the Wraith that sets him apart: though he does have some general ghost powers his main trick is possession, he is limited to the hours between midnight and dawn, and he has…

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GENERIC COSTUMED VILLAIN ROUND-UP 009

GENERIC COSTUMED VILLAIN ROUND-UP 009

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GENERIC! COSTUMED! VILLAINS! It’s not much of a costume but this dude named Marmi does manage to use a trained cobra to steal a huge ruby before the Radio Squad gets him, which is a feat. (More Fun Comics 072, 1941) It’s possible that this fellow was meant to have a name but he never managed to say it over the Green Mask’s relentless mocking of his costume. He’s munitions magnate August Mincer, who has no obvious ties to Nazism…

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HONOURS: THE FLAME BADGE OF MERIT

HONOURS: THE FLAME BADGE OF MERIT

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(Big 3 004, 1941)  In a change of pace from the usual heaping of honours on the various costumed do-gooders of comics we have here the Flame giving out an award called the “Flame Badge of Merit” to someone who helped out on a case. A fun twist!

MAD AND CRIMINAL SCIENTIST ROUND-UP 004

MAD AND CRIMINAL SCIENTIST ROUND-UP 004

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More mad science than criminal science or vice versa? You be the judge!  This guy, who seems to be neither bald nor ironically hairy enough for his name of Baldy Fluger to make sense, has a hypnotic ray and a plan: to use that hypnotic ray for crime. The Green Mask and Domino the Miracle Boy have something to say about that. (Mystery Men Comics 021, 1941) If there was any more to these three (respectively named Boris, Oscar and…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 452: THE DEATH MASTER

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 452: THE DEATH MASTER

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(Mystery Men Comics 029, 1941) Really very strong showing from the Death Master in the splash panel, with artist Louis Cazenueve (as Lester Raye) doing some great Kirby-esque monster-man work on the man himself. And the story version of the character almost measures up! The Death Master is head of a counterfeiting gang who completely buys into his own hype – he’s a sneering, gloating villain of the type I love. But why is the Death Master called that? Why,…

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