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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 876: THE CULT OF ANKKAMAN

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 876: THE CULT OF ANKKAMAN

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(Zip Comics 006, 1940) Zambini the Miracle man is visiting his old friend the archaeologist Professor Lorenz when he learns that Lorenz is potentially filled with curse-energy thanks to an ancient tomb he violated. The Professor is dismissive of these concerns, even though both his daughter Greta and Zambini himself reckon that there might be something to them. Sure enough, the very instant that Zambini has left the Lorenz house, two members of the Cult of Ankkaman show up and…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 875: THE RED CIRCLE

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 875: THE RED CIRCLE

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(Zip Comics 006, 1940) As Nevada Jones and his pal Little Joe are passing through the town of Copper Bluffs one day, they find themselves smack in the middle of a criminal conspiracy: someone is murdering people as part of a scheme to buy up key portions of the town’s land before the railroad comes through town, and the sign that someone is about to be killed is that a red circle is painted on the shaving mug when they…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 873: SATAN

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 873: SATAN

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(Zip Comics 003, 1940) Zambini (the Miracle Man) is on his first vacation in years and Satan, presuming that his guard will be down or that he left his magic amulet at home I guess, decides that this is the perfect time to attack and murder him for being such a thorn in the side of Evil.  (Please note the near-identical guy kind of capering behind Satan’s throne up there, as he represents my favourite thing about this adventure, that…

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REAL PERSON ROUND-UP 019

REAL PERSON ROUND-UP 019

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For various definitions of the word real.  Adolf Hitler:  Just why this nonsense-language-speaking pilot henchman of the Mask is named Reltih is a mystery, but it’s also a fact. BONUS VERY ANNOYING THING: I can decipher the nonsense in that second panel as “I’ll murder the bum” but this makes me think that I should be able to do the same with the rest of his half-dozen or so lines of dialogue but I can’t. Utterly vexing! The Mask also…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 872: TEXA

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 872: TEXA

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(Zip Comics 003, 1940) The Scarlet Avenger looks out his window one sunny day and sees “DEATH TO THE SCARLET AVENGER” in skywriting. This, it turns out is a very effective ploy, as when he flies up to check it out he is swarmed and captured by some very off-model pterodactyls. The beasts take him to a dirigible, where he is is introduced to Texa, an eight foot tall woman and self-proclaimed “Queen of Crime,” who is looking to rob…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 871: THE MONSTER

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 871: THE MONSTER

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(Zip Comics 002, 1940)  Mr Satan is summoned to the charmingly-named Shadow Pond to solve a series of disappearances among a group of scientists who have secluded themselves there. Upon arriving he immediately finds himself in the middle of an attack by a humanoid monster (the Monster, of course. Annoyingly, it is never once referred to as the Monster of Shadow Pond, which would be a pretty great name). He manages to pull a young woman away from the attack…

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MAD AND CRIMINAL SCIENTIST ROUND-UP 022

MAD AND CRIMINAL SCIENTIST ROUND-UP 022

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The Ethic Committee is going to have a field day.   Dr Belos is a single-issue mad scientist: he wants to turn men into birds, and to that end he has set up camp in a place called the Valley of Terror and gotten to work creating surgical chimeras called Vulture Men. His downfall comes about because he kidnaps surgeon Dr D’arne to act as his unwilling assistant, thus causing D’Arne’s daughter to bring in the Flame to help rescue him. …

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 870: THE CHIEF

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 870: THE CHIEF

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(Zip Comics 002, 1940) While walking down the street one day in what is almost certainly supposed to be New York City, Jim “the Scarlet Avenger” Kendal witnesses the protection racket-related bombing of a tailor shop. What’s worse, the police response to the blast makes it pretty clear that they are on the take! Using his network of operatives, the Scarlet Avenger discovers when and where the next bombing is set to take place and intervenes by way of a…

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GENERIC COSTUMED VILLAIN ROUND-UP 030

GENERIC COSTUMED VILLAIN ROUND-UP 030

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I seal up the cracks but the dang things keep getting in.  Klang is your classic rejected-and-shunned-by-society-due-to-his-appearance villain, who has channelled his bitterness into inventions such as heat rays and the explosive Super X-X Nitro Glycerine, which he secretes in the bottle of christening champagne in order to destroy the Navy’s newest battleship. Just how this is meant to bring him closer to his goal of becoming the dictator of America is left unexplored, as it draws the heroic Navy…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 869: THE BLACK KNIGHT

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 869: THE BLACK KNIGHT

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(Zip Comics 001, 1940) Shortly after giving himself super powers, Steel Sterling gets word of a brutal bank robbery in the town of Beeville and sets out to bring the culprits to justice. Determining that the crooks must have been guided by a mastermind of some sort, he trails their plane to a mountaintop fortress. The bow-wielding guards outside the Black Knight’s fortress (spoiler: it’s the Black Knight’s fortress, but what were you expecting) are notable for being the one…

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