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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 920: MHERSA

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 920: MHERSA

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(Champion Comics 003, 1940/ Champ Comics 011, 1940) Half sister to the mercurial undersea tyrant Neptina, Mhersa originally appears as the head of the Maella, a rebel group comprised of female members of the same race of underwater beings as Neptina (I’m not going into that again). Mhersa and the Maella are isolationist but reasonable compared to Neptina’s capricious ways. (Champion Comics 003, 1940) The Maella help Lt Brad Fletcher off and on during his conflict with Neptina, but Mhersa’s…

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MAD AND CRIMINAL SCIENTIST ROUND-UP 023

MAD AND CRIMINAL SCIENTIST ROUND-UP 023

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Perhaps we should make ethics a mandatory subject for the sciences again. Kruger:  While tooling around in the desert one day, Diamond Jack encounters a young woman named Ruth West, whose physician brother has been captured by the diabolical scientist Kruger and taken to Terror Valley in order to help in Kruger’s work turning men into hybrid creatures called Vulture Men, with the ultimate goal of using them to take over the world. If that plot sounds at all familiar,…

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CATALOGUE OF WOUNDS 002

CATALOGUE OF WOUNDS 002

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Just which comic book character has taken the most punishment down through the years? join me as we compile the definitive guide to bodily trauma in the super class.  Blackhawk: Blackhawk must set off an explosion from closer-than-optimal range and ends up getting lightly shredded. (Military Comics 003, 1941) Blackhawk’s next two adventures feature him getting whipped badly enough to mark up his torso, by the Black Tigress and the Scavengers, respectively. (Military Comics 004 & 005, 1941) Blackhawks: Blackhawk…

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ALIENS AND SO FORTH ROUND-UP 025

ALIENS AND SO FORTH ROUND-UP 025

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We got Fish-Men, we got Fishmen, we got other kinds of men. Fishmen: Adventurer Lance Rand has acquired a map showing the location of the sunken continent of Atlantis and so naturally he sets out to see if it’s accurate and more importantly to find out if there’s any ancient Atlantean treasure there for him to loot. Making his way to the ocean floor, Lance and his pal Tubby are almost immediately accosted by a Fishman riding on a sea…

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CATALOGUE OF WOUNDS 001

CATALOGUE OF WOUNDS 001

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Among the many things that I have found interesting enough to keep track of over the years is just how many times super-heroes get wounded while going about their business. What does a shoulder look like after it’s been shot a dozen times, for example? If I had been really on the ball I would have also been noting every time someone was knocked out with a blow to the head as well, but we can’t all be perfect. Full catalogue here,…

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DIVINE ROUND-UP 025

DIVINE ROUND-UP 025

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Gods gods gods.  Puni, God of Fire:  Sea-faring adventurer Lance O’Casey almost gets sacrificed to this fire god by the cannibalistic inhabitants of a tropical Antarctic island before escaping, entering the volcano in question and meeting the other Puni. Not sure how much the volcano-dwelling madman and the actual religion influenced each other, but it must have been at least a little. Also: cool idol. God Style: Idol (Whiz Comics 019, 1941)  the War God: This War God idol functions like one…

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ALIENS AND SO FORTH ROUND-UP 026

ALIENS AND SO FORTH ROUND-UP 026

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There is a never-ending supply of aliens (and so forth) in comics, and here are some of them.  Giants:  When Doctor Voodoo is flung into the past by an old wizard, his only instruction is to find something called the Golden Flask, located somewhere called the Valley of Giants. Astonishingly, it only takes him about two issues worth of privation to get there, whereupon he and his pal Nero are immediately taken captive and frogmarched to the castle of the…

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DIVINE ROUND-UP 024

DIVINE ROUND-UP 024

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Not a lot of depth to this batch of gods. the Tiger God:  When the Tiger’s Eye Emerald, formerly installed as the eye in an idol of the Tiger God in India, is stolen, detective Dan Dare is brought in on the case and almost immediately captured by the tiger-worshippers who were responsible for the theft. As usual it is only the current and not historical owner of the stolen artifact who is considered legitimate and so after slaying the…

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SEASONAL CONTENT: THE END-OF-YEAR SANTY CLAUS ROUND-UP 2025

SEASONAL CONTENT: THE END-OF-YEAR SANTY CLAUS ROUND-UP 2025

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Since it’s Christmas Day I shall now post all comic book Santa Claus action I have encountered in the last year: Columbia Comics Universe:  Santa Claus is real and he knows Marvelo, Monarch of Magicians. He’s got a modern toy factory and a plane and doesn’t approve of WWII. (Big Shot Comics 020, 1941) The Spirit: Santa Claus might be real in the world of the Spirit, or maybe this gentleman is just a bearded priest with a real gift for laying…

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GENERIC COSTUMED VILLAIN ROUND-UP 032

GENERIC COSTUMED VILLAIN ROUND-UP 032

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A more fantastical bunch of genericos than usual! How fun! Benjie Frazier:  This mysterious cloaked figure hires femme fatale Sonia, aka Princess Cleo, to help him drive all of the inhabitants out of “center of New York society” Formal Park (99% certain that this is a substitution for former real-life society hub Tuxedo Park). To that end, the pair deploy such tools as squads of hooded goons, a mysteriously appearing brand to indicate that their victims have suffered “the Pharaoh’s Curse”, and…

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