The Curse of Skeleton Munroe

Category: Green Mask

  • MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 449: DR LEECH

    (Mystery Men Comics 028, 1941)

    In addition to being a member in good standing of the Name Sounds Like It’s a Thematic Choice But Isn’t Club, Dr Leech is a charter member of the The Protagonist Just Wandered into My Place of Work Instead of Having to Do Any Detective Work to Find Me Society. When the Green Mask intercepts a clearly mind controlled bank robber he hauls him into the nearest doctor’s office, which turns out to be Dr Leech’s (possibly helped out by the fact that Leech seems to order his thralls to run directly to him with the loot).

    Mind control is insidious enough, but it turns out that Leech is using a drug called Hystodine with an unfortunate side effect – it causes his victims to become suicidal as it wears off. Talk about a jerk, am I right? Don’t worry though: he gets his.

  • MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 449: DR LEECH

    (Mystery Men Comics 028, 1941)

    In addition to being a member in good standing of the Name Sounds Like It’s a Thematic Choice But Isn’t Club, Dr Leech is a charter member of the The Protagonist Just Wandered into My Place of Work Instead of Having to Do Any Detective Work to Find Me Society. When the Green Mask intercepts a clearly mind controlled bank robber he hauls him into the nearest doctor’s office, which turns out to be Dr Leech’s (possibly helped out by the fact that Leech seems to order his thralls to run directly to him with the loot).

    Mind control is insidious enough, but it turns out that Leech is using a drug called Hystodine with an unfortunate side effect – it causes his victims to become suicidal as it wears off. Talk about a jerk, am I right? Don’t worry though: he gets his.

  • MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 448: THE GHOST

    (Mystery Men Comics 027, 1941)

    As is so frequently the case, this here ghost is in fact an elaborate hoax carried out to keep people away from a particular location. This time it’s a gang of smugglers operating out of an old abandoned inn evocatively named “the Tombstones” by the locals. The Green Mask makes short work of these rascals despite the extra effort they put in, including wholesale grave robbing in order to keep themselves stocked up with enough spooky skeletons to scare off the rubes.

  • MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 448: THE GHOST

    (Mystery Men Comics 027, 1941)

    As is so frequently the case, this here ghost is in fact an elaborate hoax carried out to keep people away from a particular location. This time it’s a gang of smugglers operating out of an old abandoned inn evocatively named “the Tombstones” by the locals. The Green Mask makes short work of these rascals despite the extra effort they put in, including wholesale grave robbing in order to keep themselves stocked up with enough spooky skeletons to scare off the rubes.

  • MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 447: THE MANX

    (Mystery Men Comics 026, 1941)

    It’s the Manx! Our second catsuit-clad cat-themed villain after the Cat’s Paw! This fella doesn’t share too much about himself but seems to be a bit of a criminal opportunist – here he’s attempting to steal a pistol used in a 25 year-old murder so that he can blackmail the murderer, now a wealthy and successful man. Given his sneaky climbing style of getting about I’d wager that he’s usually some sort of burglar. A cat burglar, natch.

    Mustn’t forget to note his themed weapon: a cat’s claw mounted on his wrist that he uses to slash up his foes in a surprisingly gory fashion. Also: no tail, just like a real manx!

    Ultimately, the Manx seems to have the wrong ratio of sneaking around vs committing horrific violence going on, particularly once he’s aware that he’s facing a super-powered foe in the Green Mask. With a little more creeping and a little less clawing he might have gotten away with some swag rather than being caught by an oaf.

  • NOTES – JANUARY 2024

    Police Attempted Murder:

    The Green Mask broke an accused murderer (innocent, framed) out of jail so the NYPD attempt to murder him and Domino the Miracle Boy (Mystery Men Comics 020, 1941) 

    The police (behind the green car) attempt to gun down the Blue Beetle with no regard for the innocent witness standing next to him (Mystery Men 027, 1941)

    Future History:

    A stark vision of the state of the mortuary industry in the far-off year 2000, courtesy of Rex Dexter (though as is the nature of many sci-fi comics the setting seems to have drifted into at least  the late 2500s according to some of the headstones in the Moon graveyard) (Mystery Men Comics 021, 1941)

    COMMIES:

    Not too many Communist antagonists show up in the window between the advent of comics and Russia joining up with the Allies, but here we have some attempting to steal a new bomb prototype for their leader “Nilats” (and I guess to be completely accurate there are a lot of  spies with Russian-sounding names etc but almost all of them are clearly meant as crypto-fascist pseudo-Germans more than anything. These fellows being capital-c Communists is a rarity) (Mystery Men Comics 022, 1941)

  • NOTES – JANUARY 2024

    Police Attempted Murder:

    The Green Mask broke an accused murderer (innocent, framed) out of jail so the NYPD attempt to murder him and Domino the Miracle Boy (Mystery Men Comics 020, 1941) 

    The police (behind the green car) attempt to gun down the Blue Beetle with no regard for the innocent witness standing next to him (Mystery Men 027, 1941)

    Future History:

    A stark vision of the state of the mortuary industry in the far-off year 2000, courtesy of Rex Dexter (though as is the nature of many sci-fi comics the setting seems to have drifted into at least  the late 2500s according to some of the headstones in the Moon graveyard) (Mystery Men Comics 021, 1941)

    COMMIES:

    Not too many Communist antagonists show up in the window between the advent of comics and Russia joining up with the Allies, but here we have some attempting to steal a new bomb prototype for their leader “Nilats” (and I guess to be completely accurate there are a lot of  spies with Russian-sounding names etc but almost all of them are clearly meant as crypto-fascist pseudo-Germans more than anything. These fellows being capital-c Communists is a rarity) (Mystery Men Comics 022, 1941)