The Curse of Skeleton Munroe

Category: Wolf

  • CATALOGUE OF WOUNDS 001

    CATALOGUE OF WOUNDS 001

    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, such as it is. 

    the Angel:

    The Angel chars his own hands at least a bit while escaping from some ropes. (Marvel Mystery Comics v1 008, 1940) 

    The Angel is wounded and probably shot while escaping from an ambush by the Cat’s Paw’s men (Marvel Mystery Comics v1 019, 1941)

    Batman:

    Batman is shot in the left shoulder during an altercation with the Wolf’s men. (Batman Comics v1 002, 1940)

    Shot in the right shoulder by a fleeing crook. (Batman Comics v1 004, 1940)

    While attacking a criminal hideout in a berserker rage, Batman is shot twice in the right shoulder and has a bullet glance off his ribs. (Batman Comics v1 005, 1941)

    Pirate Hook Morgan slashes Batman across the chest and hooks him in the left shoulder. (Detective Comics v1 054, 1941)

    Black Condor: 

    Black Condor is shot in the back by the Sapphire King’s men. (Crack Comics 005, 1940)

    Blackhawk:

    Blackhawk’s arm is non-specifically injured after an attack on Blackhawk Island. (Military Comics 001, 1941)

    the Deacon:

    The Deacon is shot in the right arm by the cops. (Cat-Man Comics 001, 1941) 

    Robin:

    Robin is beaten nearly to death by some gangsters (triggering Batman’s berserker attack above). (Batman Comics v1 005, 1941)

  • GENERIC COSTUMED VILLAIN ROUND-UP 031

    They’re not good people and they’re not good at what they do and yet they still have a certain charm. 

    This guy is exclusively called “the Fiend” in narration boxes even though he is introduced as “the Great Master” and “Mako”. He practices voodoo and just sort of generically terrorizes the Haitian countryside until Yarko the Great comes at the behest of the intriguingly named Doctor Medico to settle his hash. And speaking of names, this issue features multiple characters referring to voodoo practitioners rather than their subjects as “zombies,” which is a new one on me unless of course you count the Grand Zombie. (Wonderworld Comics 019, 1940)

    Called “the Wolf” by detective Dr Fung as he is hunting him down, this masked fellow is actually Horace Bailey, a Wall Street financier who killed his partner to gain full control of their firm and made the mistake of involving a super-sleuth in the execution of his perfect murder. (Wonderworld Comics 020, 1940)

    Don Cervantes is a fellow who discovered silver in the hills near the small probably-Mexican town of Toranto and decided that the best way to keep it all to himself was to revive the practice of human sacrifice in the area. This does not prevent Nevada Jones from moving in and deposing him, of course. (Zip Comics 007, 1940)

    Comic books having cover illustrations that do not reflect the action in the book itself are nothing new, but this is the first time I have felt the need to highlight any of the characters on them whose adventures have gone unchronicled. Here’s to you, Executioner, Green Guy with Sickle Claw and Tiny Green Guy, I’m sure that you were very dastardly. (Zip Comics 008, 1940)

  • MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 081: THE WOLF

    (Batman Comics 002, 1940)

    Batman’s first Jekyll/ Hyde style villain is Adam Lamb, a meek museum curator who gets bonked on the head while reading a murder mystery and thereafter heads out at night to cause mayhem as crimelord the Wolf. Batman eventually figures out that his crimes are following the sequence of those in the book and the Wolf’s career ends with a second, fatal head bonking.