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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 668: THOTH

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 668: THOTH

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(Jungle Comics 011, 1940) We begin with a very comic book (or monster-of-the-week TV show) setup. Camilla notices and comments on the ancient Magician’s Pool and then is almost immediately compelled to enter that same pool and disappear from the realms of man. Camilla’s aide/paramour Sir Champion turns to local wizard Warlock (not that Warlock the Wizard, but it is wild that there are two of them) for help and learns that the Magician of Magician’s Pool fame is Thoth,…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 667: ANGEL EYES

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 667: ANGEL EYES

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(Jungle Comics 010, 1940) It’s a c-c-c-combo breaker! Ordinarily Fantomah swans around observing the villains of her comic adventures and periodically telling them that they should stop what they’re doing before it’s too lat, ie, before she delivers unto them an ironic punishment. This issue features one of the few foes to catch her completely flat-footed and she is as surprised as anyone when giant flaming hands start tearing through the jungle, indiscriminately murdering both people and animals. Who or…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 666: MARK LORD

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 666: MARK LORD

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(Jungle Comics 009, 1940) Minor Super-Villain 666 is somewhat in line with how underwhelming our milestone numbers in the past have been. Just two entries away from being the Devil his own two-headed self. I suppose I could have shuffled things around to make it work out in a more satisfying way but that would really taint the pure joy we’ll experience when entry 1000 or 1600 or 69420 turn out to be amazingly apropos. Who we have instead is…

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GENERIC COSTUMED VILLAIN ROUND-UP 016

GENERIC COSTUMED VILLAIN ROUND-UP 016

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 Bless ’em, they’re trying. The first few adventures of Hydroman, a character I have an inexplicable affection for, are concerned with what at first seems like some real standard Yellow Peril bullplop (“Oriental invaders” and so forth) but then there are gangsters involved and the two factions variously mention a higher-up named “the Great One” and “the Big Boss”, respectively. Still later, the whole operation seems to be run by this collection of pseudo-Nazis on a yacht in New York…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 659: THE MASKED ARROWS

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 659: THE MASKED ARROWS

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(Jungle Comics 005, 1940) As far as being minor super-villains goes, the Masked Arrows are all right: a group of cloaked bandits who manage to run circles around the local forces of law until they push their luck too far and are wiped out. The far more interesting thing about the Masked Arrows is the fact that they appear in a story that highlights just how literal the title Jungle Comics is, that virtually all of the stories that appear…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 658: THE ANT WOMAN

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 658: THE ANT WOMAN

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(Jungle Comics 005, 1940)  Conceptually, I love the Ant Woman, a ruthless bandit who lives in a giant anthill and sends swarms of venomous ants out to kill and loot for her. I particularly love her little ant tiara – is it the source of her preternatural ability to control the beasts? I cannot say for they did not go into that.  (these pics are a bit more racist than I usually go for but they really front loaded it…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 657: THE SCIENTIST

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 657: THE SCIENTIST

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(Jungle Comics 004, 1940) The Scientist (no other name given) is a man with a very comic book plan: develop a serum capable of giving gorillas superhuman intelligence, do so to a population of the particularly huge Gorgon Gorillas, and use the resulting army to conquer the world, presumably after a period of rapid gorilla breeding. Though the Scientist is a compelling villain in his own right (he is a world-class asshole, for example, like all the best bad guys),…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 655: CAMILLA, QUEEN OF THE LOST EMPIRE

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 655: CAMILLA, QUEEN OF THE LOST EMPIRE

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(Jungle Comics 001, 1940) Camilla, Queen of the Lost Empire! I love a lost ancient kingdom, especially in a jungle comic as it cuts down on the constant flow of racism. This particular ancient lost kingdom was founded by Norsemen, probably some time between 900 and 1100 CE going by the random dates thrown out at various points in the series. We encounter the Lost Empire through the eyes of explorer Jon Dale, who I will tell you now I…

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MAD AND CRIMINAL SCIENTIST ROUND-UP 013

MAD AND CRIMINAL SCIENTIST ROUND-UP 013

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Progress! Science!  It’s blood that this nameless inventor wants, blood to make his super fuel! Too bad for him that he chose to steal it from US Marine Strut Warren because he ends up extremely dead for his efforts (and the world remains dependant on fossil fuels. Thanks, Strut). (Fight Comics 003, 1940) Professor Pierre Villon, refugee from the Paris Medical Academy, has set himself up on a tropical island to further his scientific research into making human/animal hybrids. His…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 654: THE BRAIN

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 654: THE BRAIN

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(Green Mask v1 003, 1940) Despite the fact that when he shows up the Green Mask shouts his name in shocked surprise like they’re old enemies, the Brain is not in fact the main antagonist of the story he appears in, which is concerned with a fellow named Dudley Carstairs who has made some bad business decisions and has decided that his best option going forward is to kill his niece and steal her large diamond. During the course of…

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