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DIVINE ROUND-UP 031

DIVINE ROUND-UP 031

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It’s a wide-ranging and complicated theological world out there.  the Death Orchid: Once again we have a giant flower – in this case a carnivorous one – that is being worshipped as a god. Interestingly, the people doing so are Lamas, which I think might be being incorrectly used as a general term for Tibetans of a religious inclination, unless there are some major aspects of Tibetan Buddhism that I haven’t heard about. Adventure aviator Captain Kidd flies a fellow named Professor…

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ALIENS AND SO FORTH ROUND-UP 046

ALIENS AND SO FORTH ROUND-UP 046

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Good lord! Aliens! Mupha’s Species: Mupha, ruler of the undersea Land of Peril, is the kind of creep who sends his subjects to kidnap women to become his queen. This eventually brings him into conflict with underwater adventurer Sub Saunders -not because Sub is looking for kidnappees but because he happens to pass by the Land of Peril and makes Mupha nervous enough to open fire on his submarine. As Mupha appears to have only two subjects we must assume…

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ALIENS AND SO FORTH ROUND-UP 045

ALIENS AND SO FORTH ROUND-UP 045

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No matter how many comic book aliens we catalogue, there are always more to see! Fish-Men: While fish men are nothing new, these particular ones have a couple of points of distinction: firstly they just look kind of nice, a bit more gracile and svelte than your usual humanoid fish. Secondly, they are in fact Moon Fish-Men, as they serve demi-god(?) and would-be King of the Moon Bakalma. This also makes them Moon Fish-Men from the 12th Century, as Bakalma is an…

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ALIENS AND SO FORTH ROUND-UP 041

ALIENS AND SO FORTH ROUND-UP 041

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Once again I am inviting you to look at some aliens. Martian Sky-Demons: We only really ever see the space fleet belonging to these Martians, who have thrown in with the Axis forces to lend their “long-range, disintegrating super-bombs” to the invasion of North America. What they look like is left as just as much a mystery as what they are getting out this alliance with the Nazis. The Sky-Demons end up wasting their payload of super-bombs on a replica…

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MEDIA IN COMICS 002

MEDIA IN COMICS 002

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Fictional books, fictional movies, fictional stage shows: it’s media in comics time!  Books: Dexter, a friend of Ellsworth “the Sphinx” Forrester, has written a book titled Who’s Who in Murder which is one of those grand exposes that causes everyone in crimedom to attempt to kill the author before they can publish. That’s gotta be great publicity. (Exciting Comics 010, 1941) While Guns Make Dust is very plot relevant in this Ellery Queen mystery, as a doped-up stamp thief hides his…

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MEDIA IN COMICS 001

MEDIA IN COMICS 001

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I’ve often mentioned how comics as a medium has a grand tradition of not using the real names for people (see about half the entries in our collection of Real Folk in comics) places (see the grand list of fictional countries on every continent of our list of Locations) and things, so I hope that it won’t surprise you when I say that they make up all the media, too. And since I have a big list of all the…

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MEDIA IN COMICS 001

MEDIA IN COMICS 001

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I’ve often mentioned how comics as a medium has a grand tradition of not using the real names for people (see about half the entries in our collection of Real Folk in comics) places (see the grand list of fictional countries on every continent of our list of Locations) and things, so I hope that it won’t surprise you when I say that they make up all the media, too. And since I have a big list of all the…

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CATALOGUE OF WOUNDS 004

CATALOGUE OF WOUNDS 004

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More wounds for the wound god! American Ace: Minor Marvel adventure hero Parry Wade, aka the American Ace, is riddled through the torso and crashes his plane after a dogfight. He gets better. (Marvel Mystery Comics v1 003, 1940) Black X: Shot in the left shoulder by agents of Vlamir Koran, then nearly dies of exposure while seeking aid. (Smash Comics 001, 1939) Black X’s aide Batu gets shot in the left shoulder on his next mission, while Black X…

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ALIENS AND SO FORTH ROUND-UP 024

ALIENS AND SO FORTH ROUND-UP 024

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Today we journey into the far future!  Cave-Dwellers:  The hunt for Atom Blake’s father takes him from Earth to Mercury, to Mercury but millions of years in the future, where he encounters these little fellows. Driven out of their surface city by invaders, the Cave-Dwellers are understandably hostile to outsiders, but Atom manages to win them over eventually, free his father (the hunt, though long in distance and time, was short in terms of steps) and retake the city. What…

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DIVINE ROUND-UP 022

DIVINE ROUND-UP 022

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Oh my gosh this place has so many god options. the Sacred Leopard:  The animal-worshipping tribe who all dress like the animal in question is a regular trope in jungle comics so of course Kalthar, lord of the jungle eventually encounters some of them. In this case it’s Leopard Men from the Leopard Village, who dress in leopard skins and worship Karno, the leopard (Karno seems to be the collective singular noun for the leopard, a thing that happens a…

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