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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 701: FELON

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 701: FELON

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(Planet Comics 003, 1940) In his first appearance Felon is a fairly ordinary space pirate captain, terrorizing the spaceways with a fleet of cool black delta-shaped ships and a device that intercepts and disrupts communications across the Solar System. In this capacity, Felon gets absolutely trounced by Captain Nelson Cole: his men are beaten up and then blown out of the sky by Cole and the Solar Force. The survivors are taken into custody – Felon is not specifically mentioned…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 700: RADGIO

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 700: RADGIO

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(Planet Comics 003, 1940) We open on Spurt Hammond, the Planet-Flyer himself, intercepting an alarming series of images from the planet Mercury. Giants? Explosions? Girls!? What could it all mean? It turns out that the girl in question is Princess Zilla, erstwhile ruler of Mercury but recently deposed by her Prime Minister Radgio, who schemes to conquer the world using mutated Mercurians such as the previously-seen giant. Which I suppose strongly implies that Zilla was the ruler of only a…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 699: AGRA

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 699: AGRA

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(Planet Comics 002, 1940) We are introduced to Agra when Earth-woman Ava bursts in to Auro. Lord of Jupiter’s court to warn him that Agra intends to kill him. She really talks up Agra’s prowess vis-a-vis elephant- human- and tree-slaying, and hopefully takes the time to describe his outfit which for all the world looks like it was designed by Mike Grell just after he finished with Disco Era Cosmic Boy. Auro of course does not know the meaning of…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 698: SINFO

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 698: SINFO

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(Planet Comics 002, 1940) Sinfo is a scientist of the unspecified future who has used his mind control technology to dominate a city of Neptunian Crab-Men and is now looking into the possibility of doing the same to the people of Earth. As such, he has captured space adventurer Buzz Crandall along with his associates Dr and Susan Curan. I have a lot of affection for Sinfo, 100% of which are because I appreciate his aesthetics. Why, just look at…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 697: THE CREATURE

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 697: THE CREATURE

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(Planet Comics 002, 1940) Having defeated the evil Sarko, Flint Baker and his crew are ready to head home to accept their accolades as the as-fas-as-anyone-knows first humans to land on Mars, when word comes from Princess Viga that the city of Ru is facing yet another deadly threat. This time it’s a giant four-armed primate that attacks three times per year and hauls Martians away to an uncertain and terrifying fate. Will Flint Baker help them? Of course he…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 696: QUORAK

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 696: QUORAK

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(Planet Comics 001, 1940) Quorak, like Moloka before him, seems to have developed his planet-wrecking technology without a clear indication of how he was going to use it. The caption box mentions destroying “all traces of civilization” and Quorak himself speaks of becoming “the greatest power in the whole universe!” but there have to be a lot of steps in the flow chart with “????” and “work this out later” on them. He does look very menacing while sitting at…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 695: ZAN

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 695: ZAN

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(Planet Comics 001, 1940)  Zan lives on the far-off planet Volcus and uses the energies of its magnetic core to power his spaceship fleet and capture yet more spaceships. And why does he do this? Why, so that he can turn their crew into science zombies and eventually amass an army large enough to conquer the universe! (he also has this one lady with him at all times and I’m not sure what her role is exactly because she does…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 694: SARKO

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 694: SARKO

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(Planet Comics 001, 1940) We’re in the 1940 run of Planet Comics now, so look out for a fair few of space tyrants with one-word nonsense names. Like Sarko here! Sarko is an Earth man who came to Mars in 1933 and set about conquering the dark side of the planet. Now it’s the near future and Sarko has his sights set on taking over the remainder of Mars and the light-side city of Ru in particular.  The… Ruvians? No…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 678: AMNOZO

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 678: AMNOZO

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(National Comics 003, 1940)  Cyclone is an extremely minor Quality Comics future spaceman hero of the year 3000 who, in National Comics 001, participates in a competition between the planets of the solar system to see which one gets to colonize the newly discovered planet Vito. He wins of course, and the remainder of his four appearances are spent dealing with various threats to the new colony, including at least one civilization native to the planet, because colonialism. Do they…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 675: THE EYES

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 675: THE EYES

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(Miracle Comics 002, 1940) The Eyes is a spy chief (singular) who has a cool gimmick (contact lenses or similar which can emit powerful light beams to spooky effect) and goes all in on it as a theme. Specifically, the Eyes is all about destroying eyes via blinding light, acid or simple traumatic injury – honestly a pretty effective thing to threaten most people with, even if they are for example very loyal to the aircraft company they work for….

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