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…
(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…
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…
(Weird Comics 008, 1940) The Sorceress of Zoom is up to her usual tricks: attempting to steal some random guy from his lady friend, getting mad that he won’t fall in love with her, attacking the city he lives in and turning their tank patrol (!) into a series of ornamental trees, and finally abducting people willy-nilly in order to turn them into furniture. Regular stuff. In the city council’s hour of need it is approached by an eccentrically dressed…
Honours – Beautia: Beautia Not-Yet-Officially-Sivana wins the Empress of Beauty Contest (Whiz Comics 003b, 1940) Later in the year, Beautia saves the US Pacific fleet from being destroyed by Dr Sivana, and gets an unspecified medal from the Navy for it. (Whiz Comics 009, 1940) Cops Shooting Unarmed Suspects: This California police chief almost blows away Ibis the Invincible for sassing him and is only prevented thanks to ancient Egyptian magic. (Whiz Comics 008, 1940) Skeletons With Jobs: Soldier skeleton….
A panoply of wonders awaits. Karnak’s Slaves: This otherwise-unnamed race from an unnamed planet get a pretty raw deal: conquered and mind-controlled into servitude by scientist Karnak, they all seemingly die when he does. It’s a real shame. (Weird Comics 007, 1940) the Deadly Plants: It’s hard to say much about the so-called “Deadly Plants” of planet Vegeto, aside from the fact that they work together to capture a handful of prospective human colonists and dump them in a pit,…
(Weird Comics 007, 1940) Here we are again with another Morgan(a) le Fay entry, our third in about a month and a half. Was there something in the water? This is also going to double as a micro Real Folk Round-Up, as all of the Arthurian characters who appear in the story are plot-relevant enough that I might as well detail them here as duplicate my effort. Our Real Folk start off with Sir Gareth, Knight of the Round Table, brother to…
If I’ve learned one thing from comics it’s to never turn your back on a scientist. Henry Falcon is one of a trio of scientists, along with John Robin and John Sparrow, who have been made the beneficiaries of the whimsical will of millionaire Mortimer Bird. This is of course one of those special murder mystery wills in which the payout increases for any survivors as fellow inheritors are killed off, and Henry Falcon is all about getting that money…
(Weird Comics 001, 1940) Dr Mortal, in contrast to his fellow Weird Comics character the Sorceress of Zoom, is your typical comic-headlining super-villain, in that he is a mad scientist with an obsession with making monsters. Like most of his ilk, Mortal is opposed by a heterosexual couple of upstanding moral character, and in his specific case they are his niece Marlene Mortal and her lover Gary Brent (as Marlene’s surname is never actually given in print, I’m just making an assumption that…
Look out! Its demons! Lucifer: Dastardly voodoo man the Voodoo Man has this version of Lucifer possess a young woman for some dang reason. He’s got a pretty good look with the sideburns and all, but is surprisingly easy to chase away with an anemically-presented crucifix. (Weird Comics 006, 1940) the Unholy One: The Unholy One is an infernal servant of some kind who has been summoned as a sort of demonic search engine by the Green Sorceress. He appears…