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ALIENS AND SO FORTH ROUND-UP 030

ALIENS AND SO FORTH ROUND-UP 030

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Luvverly aliens and so forth for ye today, guv. the Freaks:  Silver Streak, investigating a series of mysterious murders, follows a lead to the aptly-named Fantasy Isle in the Pacific Ocean.  The inhabitants of Fantasy Isle probably don’t refer to themselves as “the Freaks” but as that is the only thing that they are called in-story I suppose that we must go with it. They are a heterogeneous collection of humanoid who have isolated themselves from the world, presumably due to…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 929: THE BEAU

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 929: THE BEAU

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(Silver Streak Comics 010, 1941)  The Beau is a piratical figure who uses his uncanny resemblance to the heroic Pirate Prince to take over the latter’s ship and make off with all the treasure he had gathered in order to buy slaves and set them free. Although his motivation seems to be 100% loot and 0% perpetuation of slavery I suppose that we must consider the impact of his theft on others and give him a few more Evil Points for…

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MINOR SUPER-HERO ROUND-UP 079

MINOR SUPER-HERO ROUND-UP 079

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Look anywhere and you won’t find finer minor super-heroes. That’s our guarantee! Dickie Dean, Boy Inventor **UPDATE**:  Dickie Dean, Boy Inventor, continues to live up to his moniker and churn out the boy inventions in 1941. Some highlights: – several different models of remote controlled robot – an autopilot for ships -a code-breaking machine – a device for viewing the past – force rays – a drilling machine – a rope that is attracted to hair – indestructible metal –…

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CATALOGUE OF WOUNDS 005

CATALOGUE OF WOUNDS 005

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More wounds for the Catalogue of Wounds! Ace of Space: Shot in the left arm during an attempted skyjacking. (Feature Comics 041, 1941) the Black Hood: As part of Kip Burland’s journey to masked vigilantism he gets shot all to hell and back by the Skull’s minions. The shots we can see happening are all hitting him in the torso, and according to his hermit mentor there were at least eight of them. Sheesh. (Top-Notch Comics 009, 1940) Chic Carter:…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 928: THE DOMINO

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 928: THE DOMINO

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(Silver Streak Comics 009, 1941) Dominic Leonetti, aka the Domino, is a nightclub owner/gang boss with what I would call a moderate commitment to his chosen theme. Sure, he plays a game of dominoes with his victims before killing them, and sure he leaves a domino in the hand of whoever he kills, but where’s the domino tie pin or domino-handled knife or even that old standard the domino mask? Even his nightclub is called the Red Rouse, which is…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 927: THE HIGH ONE

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 927: THE HIGH ONE

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(Silver Streak Comics 009, 1941) The High One is a fascist spy chief cum mad scientist who has been using an advanced poison to wage a surprisingly successful campaign to kill of the upper echelons of the US government. This has brought him into conflict with Bart Benson, aka Secret Agent X-101, who is soon captured by the High One’s agents and bundled off to his HQ in the small town of Newburgh to be gloated at and then executed. Though the…

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REAL PERSON ROUND-UP 021

REAL PERSON ROUND-UP 021

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They just love putting real folks and versions of real folks in comics and I just love finding them and putting them on my blog.  Adolf Hitler: An in-all-but-name version of Hitler gets mad at Citizen Smith for foiling his plans and plots. (Captain Fearless Comics 002, 1941) Gang boss and Deacon foe Duke Adare’s little toothbrush mustache is what initially drew my attention, even though that wasn’t nearly as glaring a signpost of a character being a Hitler stand-in…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 926: THE WINGERS

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 926: THE WINGERS

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(Silver Streak Comics 009, 1941) One day while noodling around in his super plane, Cloud Curtis comes across a crashed plane in Death Valley, with near-dead pilot speaking of snow on the wings. What could this mean? Cloud and his entourage check in with Mr Richmond, owner of the plane, and find that it is the latest in a series of crashes and disappearances. This is all highly suspicious, and what’s even more suspicious is the brick with a note…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 925: THE IRON-JAW

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 925: THE IRON-JAW

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(Silver Streak Comics 009, 1941) The US is being rocked by a series of explosions targeting munitions factories and other facilities contributing to national defense, and not even the speed of the Silver Streak is enough to combat the organizational skills and coordination of the mysterious mastermind behind them. It is only by sheer coincidence that he happens upon an imperilled security guard from a plant in Georgia and learns from him that the men who blew up his workplace…

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MINOR SUPER-HERO ROUND-UP 077

MINOR SUPER-HERO ROUND-UP 077

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Please enjoy about half of the Great Comics stable of characters.   Kangaroo Man: The Kangaroo Man is Jack Brian, who gets his name thanks to his animal companion: Bingo, an astonishingly well-trained kangaroo.  Jack might be a pretty standard comic book adventurer, but Bingo, though his vocabulary is limited to a “rsp, rsp” sound, is of seemingly near-human intelligence and able to act essentially as another human character in the strip. Here’s Bingo parachuting out of an airplane, for example….

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