The Curse of Skeleton Munroe

Category: alien

  • NOTES – MARCH 2023

    New Powers:

    An injured Hawkman is tended to by birds and learns to speak their language. (Flash Comics v1 023, 1941)

    Just some of my favourite alien designs ever: the Kriglo AKA Martian Spider-Men (Flash Comics v1 024, 1941)

    Super Hero Costume Party:

    Hawkman attends a costume party with Shiera Sanders as Hawkgirl. Though not the first time she wore the costume, this does mark the start of the two as a crime-fighting duo ongoing, no matter what stinky ol’ Hawkman says. (Flash Comics v1 024, 1941)

    Rick Raleigh might have intended to attend this party as the Red Bee in that classic cheeky move, but ended up getting mixed up in a murder and attending as a different guy dressed as the Red Bee. (Hit Comics 014, 1941)

    Really enjoy the selection of creature that inhabit the inner earth in the year 50029 CE: Mud Men, Rock Men, hot ladies, and down at the very bottom: guys with beards. (Hit Comics 003, 1940)

    Quality comics with another entry for the list of increasingly unhinged patriotic heroes: Don Glory, the xenophobic jingoist former boxer (Hit Comics 008, 1941)

  • MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 252: EGON

    (Flash Comics v1 021, 1941)

    This one’s got a lot of setup. First, Hawkman sees a spaceship crash, as you do. Venturing inside, he finds a deceased Neptunian couple, their egg son and a Rosetta Stone of a  ship’s log. He makes off with the egg and the journal and just leaves the ship and its former crew to rot.

    Next night is the Scientist Society Ball, where monocled botanist and creep Noel Ratchford makes a play for Shiera Sanders and is rebuffed. There’s an egg-based sequence of events as follows:

    -Noel is germinating seeds in eggs

    -Carter “Hawkman” Hall thinks this is dumb

    -Shiera stumbles across the boy-egg and assumes that Carter is also experimenting with eggs. She steals the egg as a joke and tells Noel about it

    -Noel decides to steal the egg and take credit for Carters egg-based research. He ends up hatching out the boy Egon.

    Thanks to Neptunian genetics, Egon hatches into a rapidly-growing boy with cool eye-beams and full powers of speech. Noel then hits upon the idea to raise him up to a) hate him and b) believe that his name is Carter Hall, so that he will go out and do evil giant stuff and blame it on Carter, thus presumably sullying his good name enough for Shiera to reject him? it’s a flimsy plan at best, but when all you have is a giant you look for rampage-based solutions to your problems.

    Everything kind of goes according to plan, except that Carter Hall is of course Hawkman, and that he has the journal and knows all of the Neptunians’ weak points and kills Egon and brings Noel to justice. But other than that stuff, A-OK.

  • MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 005: KOTH

     (More Fun 014, 1936)


    Another Dr Occult foe (and thus another early Siegel and Shuster creation), Koth is a fairly generic magic guy, for all that his origin involved being a magic alien who swore to destroy humanity when his companions were slain by cavemen.

    Unlike the preceding minor villains, Koth has gone on to appear in more modern comics, though whether any of them were set in the modern day as opposed to being period pieces is something I’m not sure of..