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MAD AND CRIMINAL SCIENTIST ROUND-UP 021

MAD AND CRIMINAL SCIENTIST ROUND-UP 021

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None of this science is mad or criminal peer reviewed.  This fellow attempts to blackmail Dynamo’s unnamed home city by various methods, including Causing and then threatening further widespread destruction with his “liquid air” freeze cannon and kidnapping city council members and then subjecting some of them to a frankly horrific bone liquefying ray.  The main problem with him is honestly the fact that he has no established name. He does go by “Miss Monda” while he is posing as…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 863: KARNO THE CHESS MAN

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 863: KARNO THE CHESS MAN

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(Wonderworld Comics 009, 1940) Detective Dr Fung’s pal Dan Barrister racks up one of the swifter “this information is impossible/ the impossible thing is right behind me” turnarounds in comics history when he and Dr Fung are kidnapped by a Moth Man about 1.5 seconds after he expresses disbelief in the existence of Moth Men who kidnap people. It turns out that the Moth Men in question work for a super-villainous type named Karno the Chess Man (sometimes Chessman) who…

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REAL PERSON ROUND-UP 018

REAL PERSON ROUND-UP 018

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World leaders and others.  Adolf Hitler:  I’m pretty sure that the “Navy Jones” strip is set in an undefined near-future time, which makes the Dictator of Europe here a future analog of Adolf Hitler rather than a stand-in for him. I’m almost certain that that’s the case. Anyway, he tries to invade the US with a fleet of amphibious tanks and gets his ass handed to him by Navy Jones and his fish men. (Weird Comics 008, 1940) Chiang Kai-shek and Soong…

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GENERIC COSTUMED VILLAIN ROUND-UP 026

GENERIC COSTUMED VILLAIN ROUND-UP 026

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A wretched and motley crew for ye this day.  Mikal, leader of the undersea pirates, is an evocative figure who exists only to pad out the Typhon story that he appears in by a couple of pages. In an attempt to aid his ally, the king of the Sea Demons, he gets off one good hydro-jet blast at Typhon’s submarine before he and his entire undersea fortress are annihilated by the sub’s hydro-ray. (Weird Comics 005, 1940) Friends, I am…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 855: GORE

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 855: GORE

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(Weird Comics 009, 1940) Gore, a mad scientist, has just escaped from an unspecified facility in an unnamed city in whatever part of Africa that Marga the Panther Woman hangs out, and while I appreciate how he looks like a little scamp while he’s stealing an airplane from Marga’s pal Ted, this young fellow would be heading straight to the next Mad and Criminal Scientist Round-Up if not for two fun things that he does and that I want to…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 854: THE BEAST

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 854: THE BEAST

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(Weird Comics 009, 1940) The Beast is the Eagle’s first and perhaps only recurring foe, and it’s unfortunate that he makes his first appearance at the very end of the 1940 run of Weird Comics because I really want to highlight the similarities between the Beast and his fellow Luis Cazaneuve creation the Rook, but danged if I have enough material for a real compare-and contrast on them yet. For now, we’ll just hit the obvious, such as the fact that they look…

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MINOR SUPER-HERO ROUND-UP 059

MINOR SUPER-HERO ROUND-UP 059

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You thought that I couldn’t keep doing it but I can. MORE SUPER-HEROES  the Dart:  On the one hand, the Dart is just another guy with cape and a mask who fights crime alongside his kid sidekick, but on the other, he has a few interesting twists on what is already a tried-and-true formula: In the first place, the Dart was originally an Ancient Roman named Caius Martius who was magically sealed in a block of stone by his enemies, only…

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ALIENS AND SO FORTH ROUND-UP 018

ALIENS AND SO FORTH ROUND-UP 018

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It’s time to return to spaaaaaace!  Urolians and Urians:  The “Blast Bennett” feature is set far enough in the future (5940 CE, according to the caption on a single panel that I’m taking as gospel until contradicted) that I generally assume that all of the human-looking aliens that Blast and his pal Red encounter are representative of far-flung Earth colonies rather than of lack of alien design imagination, but I just had to point out the fact that the two…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 853: GOBI, SUPER-WIZARD OF THE DESERT

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 853: GOBI, SUPER-WIZARD OF THE DESERT

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(Weird Comics 009, 1940) The Sorceress of Zoom is enjoying herself by tormenting people in the desert one day when she is suddenly confronted and challenged for possession of her victims by Gobi, Super-Wizard of the Desert! Is he some sort of heroic magic-user looking to free the people from their torturous servitude? Of course not! He’s looking for food for his pet vultures!  (aside: the Sorceress of Zoom is never the good guy in these situations, but this might…

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DEMONIC ROUND-UP 003

DEMONIC ROUND-UP 003

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Two shorts and two longs. Bajah: Minor Golden Age Marvel magician Dakor has to travel all the way to the fictional Indian kingdom of Nordu to rescue his friend’s daughter from one of those cults where they worship a random blonde white lady (one of the more embarrassing stupid pulp fiction concepts to make the jump to comics, in my opinion). All that is to set up the fact that the devil figure in this cult is the oft-invoked, never-seen…

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