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CATALOGUE OF WOUNDS 002

CATALOGUE OF WOUNDS 002

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Just which comic book character has taken the most punishment down through the years? join me as we compile the definitive guide to bodily trauma in the super class.  Blackhawk: Blackhawk must set off an explosion from closer-than-optimal range and ends up getting lightly shredded. (Military Comics 003, 1941) Blackhawk’s next two adventures feature him getting whipped badly enough to mark up his torso, by the Black Tigress and the Scavengers, respectively. (Military Comics 004 & 005, 1941) Blackhawks: Blackhawk…

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ALIENS AND SO FORTH ROUND-UP 025

ALIENS AND SO FORTH ROUND-UP 025

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We got Fish-Men, we got Fishmen, we got other kinds of men. Fishmen: Adventurer Lance Rand has acquired a map showing the location of the sunken continent of Atlantis and so naturally he sets out to see if it’s accurate and more importantly to find out if there’s any ancient Atlantean treasure there for him to loot. Making his way to the ocean floor, Lance and his pal Tubby are almost immediately accosted by a Fishman riding on a sea…

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FASCIST GOON CLEARING HOUSE 011

FASCIST GOON CLEARING HOUSE 011

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The fools! The fascist fools. the Steel Guard:  The Steel Guard are a home-grown fascist group in the Balkan country of Murania, who plot to sell out their country and its oil wells to the Nazis. They fail to recognize the threat inherent in leaving a camera in the hands of crack magazine photographer Fran Frazer and she ruins their entire setup with a few evidence-heavy snaps. (Top-Notch Comics 010, 1940) the Redshirts:  The Redshirts are a homegrown US fascist…

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GENERIC COSTUMED VILLAIN ROUND-UP 031

GENERIC COSTUMED VILLAIN ROUND-UP 031

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They’re not good people and they’re not good at what they do and yet they still have a certain charm.  This guy is exclusively called “the Fiend” in narration boxes even though he is introduced as “the Great Master” and “Mako”. He practices voodoo and just sort of generically terrorizes the Haitian countryside until Yarko the Great comes at the behest of the intriguingly named Doctor Medico to settle his hash. And speaking of names, this issue features multiple characters…

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ALIENS AND SO FORTH ROUND-UP 023

ALIENS AND SO FORTH ROUND-UP 023

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A fine batch of aliens for ye this day, sor!  Inferians:  The wandering planet Inferno threatens to destroy the Earth with its heat, and the magician Zambini (plus some lady and the mad astronomer Professor Stargaze) travel to its surface in an attempt to cool it down. There they find the Inferians, charmingly can-shaped aliens made out of heat-resistant glass. We learn more information than usual about this alien culture from a handy text box: the nearby Inferian city is…

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ALIENS AND SO FORTH ROUND-UP 022

ALIENS AND SO FORTH ROUND-UP 022

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Top-quality aliens, fresh-baked!  Unnamed Species: This unnamed species has that most delightful and implausible of features, an organic wheel that they use to locomote around! Other than that they’re your typical underground dwelling species: they live far enough under the surface or have an extensive enough range that one can enter their kingdom in the Himalayas and exit in Iran; they have a captured surface woman named Rina as their queen but the real power lies with “He”, who is…

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REAL PERSON ROUND-UP 019

REAL PERSON ROUND-UP 019

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For various definitions of the word real.  Adolf Hitler:  Just why this nonsense-language-speaking pilot henchman of the Mask is named Reltih is a mystery, but it’s also a fact. BONUS VERY ANNOYING THING: I can decipher the nonsense in that second panel as “I’ll murder the bum” but this makes me think that I should be able to do the same with the rest of his half-dozen or so lines of dialogue but I can’t. Utterly vexing! The Mask also…

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DIVINE ROUND-UP 019

DIVINE ROUND-UP 019

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These pantheons are going to fill up if we’re not careful. Ammon-Ra: Worshipped by a secret sect in the hidden underground city-state of Ruxor in Egypt, Ammon-Ra, contrary to the above image, is probably just an idol that Yarko the Great is making speak so that he doesn’t have to keep magically duelling High Priest Ramma-Tep.  God style: Idol (Wonderworld Comics 018, 1940) Kila: Kila, the supposed Hindu God of Destruction, is represented here by a ruby idol. There’s not…

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MAD AND CRIMINAL SCIENTIST ROUND-UP 022

MAD AND CRIMINAL SCIENTIST ROUND-UP 022

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The Ethic Committee is going to have a field day.   Dr Belos is a single-issue mad scientist: he wants to turn men into birds, and to that end he has set up camp in a place called the Valley of Terror and gotten to work creating surgical chimeras called Vulture Men. His downfall comes about because he kidnaps surgeon Dr D’arne to act as his unwilling assistant, thus causing D’Arne’s daughter to bring in the Flame to help rescue him. …

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GENERIC COSTUMED VILLAIN ROUND-UP 030

GENERIC COSTUMED VILLAIN ROUND-UP 030

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I seal up the cracks but the dang things keep getting in.  Klang is your classic rejected-and-shunned-by-society-due-to-his-appearance villain, who has channelled his bitterness into inventions such as heat rays and the explosive Super X-X Nitro Glycerine, which he secretes in the bottle of christening champagne in order to destroy the Navy’s newest battleship. Just how this is meant to bring him closer to his goal of becoming the dictator of America is left unexplored, as it draws the heroic Navy…

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