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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 844: ZOM

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 844: ZOM

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(Weird Comics 002, 1940)  Space adventurers Blast Bennett and his pal Red are tooling around the Solar System one day when they are hailed by and then hauled aboard an enormous space vessel. This vessel is Plane-City, the mobile headquarters of the space pirate Zom. Actually, I don’t know if “space pirate” is quite the right label for Zom, as his main passion seems to be taking and keeping prisoners rather than the more traditional piratical pursuit of taking prisoners…

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DIVINE ROUND-UP 011

DIVINE ROUND-UP 011

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Lookit’m go! Thor:  This particular version of Thor, Norse God of Thunder invests mortal man Grant Farrel with his powers, but while most ancient gods who get up to that sort of thing in comics are looking for an agent to fight against or promote a cause or agenda, Thor seems to just seems to want to see his powers being used in adventures. It’s kind of wholesome! Please also note the weird discs on Thor’s helmet. What the heck…

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GENERIC COSTUMED VILLAIN ROUND-UP 025

GENERIC COSTUMED VILLAIN ROUND-UP 025

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Buncha rude crude dudes for ya.  The Rio Kid is after another gang of masked bandits, and this time they’re in league with a crooked sheriff and led by a corrupt political boss aptly named the Boss. Nothing really remarkable here but I do dig the Boss’ hat. (Thrilling Comics 010, 1940) Jose Gonzales, star football player for Sornora University of Mexico, is visiting Carson University with two aims in mind: hit the ol’ gridiron and slap on a mask…

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ALIENS AND SO FORTH ROUND-UP 011

ALIENS AND SO FORTH ROUND-UP 011

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What ho! Aliens! Martians:  These Martians attack Earth for reasons that will remain unclear forever, because the story they appear in never actually gets an ending. In fact, they never even show their faces, instead attacking from their very cool-looking ships and sending their very cool-looking robots to act as ground troops. The initial invasion is driven off by superhuman scientist Greg Gilday and his associate Joan and then the Martians just never bother to return for another shot. (War…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 843: THE RULER OF THE UNDERSEAS

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 843: THE RULER OF THE UNDERSEAS

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(Weird Comics 001, 1940)  During the inaugural voyage of his super submarine the A-14, oceanic explorer Typhon encounters a remarkable monster: a mass of eels with a central woman’s head and the attractive power of a siren. Though the creature kills several of his crew, Typhon is able to use his magic ring to kill its heads, which reveals that the girl-head in the centre is actually a human woman who has been mind controlled and used as a monster-part for…

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ALIENS AND SO FORTH ROUND-UP 010

ALIENS AND SO FORTH ROUND-UP 010

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Oh those rascally aliens. the Grey Hordes from the Center of the Earth:  The Grey Hordes from the Center of the Earth, aka the Grey Men, have been bombing London for unclear reasons using hard-to-see transparent planes. War correspondent Danny Dash and his associate Shamrock “Mac” McGlynn (!) stumble upon a group of them in the English countryside after their car is wrecked by a mysterious bomb-throwing glowing limousine, but since the “Danny Dash” feature never concluded we never really…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 842: THE STONE MAN

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 842: THE STONE MAN

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(Weird Comics 001, 1940) Here’s the thing about the Stone Man: I have no idea what his deal is, aside from the fact that he’s a creep. See, the Bird Man is just flying around the desert one day, as is his wont, when he runs into some guys searching for one of the guys’ daughter. After flying around for a bit, he discovers her in an isolated canyon, being sexually menaced by a weirdo and his animal companions. Why…

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MINOR SUPER-HERO ROUND-UP 058

MINOR SUPER-HERO ROUND-UP 058

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A number of minor Fox Features characters for your perusal and delight. the Bird Man:  The Bird Man, descendant of “an ancient Indian god” (no further detail provided) uses his weird demigod wing-flaps to fly around the American Southwest and render aid to people. (Weird Comics 001, 1940) In Bird Man’s final appearance, in Weird Comics 004, he has conformed to the heroic norm a bit more by moving to a penthouse apartment in what might be NYC (please note that he…

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ALIENS AND SO FORTH ROUND-UP 009

ALIENS AND SO FORTH ROUND-UP 009

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When deep-sea diving off of the Marquesas Islands, explorers/lovers Chuck Hardy and Jerry Peterson are caught in a volcanic upheaval and sucked through a rift in the ocean floor. They find themselves in one of the many underground lands that dot any comic book version of the Earth – this one being lit and heated by an enormous volcano called Roara. Chuck and Jerry’s time in the underground land (never actually named as a whole, so I have been calling…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 841: SIKANDUR, THE ROBOT MASTER

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 841: SIKANDUR, THE ROBOT MASTER

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(War Comics 001, 1940)  Sikandur, the Robot Master, is a villain-in-a-starring-role who sadly only appeared once. Any evil roboticist who, for example, makes his robots red-hot as a way of discouraging those who might grapple them is an evil roboticist I want to read about, and I only got the one opportunity to do so. Sikandur need gold in order to build more robots, though whether he needs it as a necessary component or as a handy source of cash…

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