(Jumbo Comics 003-005, 1938-1939) The Hooded Archer is included here as a curiosity. He gets an enormous buildup! He’s going to teach the entire movie company that is shooting on hero Wiley Wilton’s ranch the meaning of terror! Here is the meaning of terror. Terror is when: – someone aims but does not fire an arrow at a man (jackass actor Geoffrey Parker) – they then shoot a distinctive arrow at another man (Wiley Wilton) – a bandit (Henry Fleetfoot)…
They may not be the top of the class, but they did their time in the evil sciences! Dr Eric Karlin has a lot of moxie on paper: a Nazi psychologist with a sideline in Egyptology, he dissolves the enemies of the Reich in acid and keeps their jellied remains in a series of jars in his basement. He also employs mind controlled pseudo-zombies in a scheme to recover frozen Nazi assets from a bank vault. The problem is that…
MORE! MORE! Another Nazi spy-cell headed by a guy in a cloth mask called the Leader, this time in Switzerland for a bit of variety. (Captain America Comics 009, 1941) Having just read a year’s worth of Jumbo Comics, I can tell you that this guy here, name of Sam Bradford, is the closest thing to a super-villain in them and it’s mostly because of the decent outfit. He’s an agent who kills a producer or something because of professional…
Another “renegade white“: (Jumbo Comics 034, 1941)