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REAL PERSON ROUND-UP 026

REAL PERSON ROUND-UP 026

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Once again we point and go “Hey. It’s that guy.” Adolf Hitler: Captain Courageous has to deal with a few pseudo-Nazis working for Hitler-alike Hinkler. (Banner Comics 003, 1941)  Real Hitler takes a scheme-foiling by Vulcan pretty hard. (Four Favorites 001, 1941) Devil’s Island: Captain America and Bucky infiltrate Devil’s Island to free a prisoner who is not only a victim of carceral justice taken to unjust extremes but also as an arm of the Nazi government in France. (Captain America Comics…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 973: THE MASTER MIND

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 973: THE MASTER MIND

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(Fight Comics 011, 1941) Just when the futuristic (i.e., early 2000s) nation of Greater America thinks that it can relax, it is simultaneously attacked from both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans! Acting quickly, Saber, aka the Spy Fighter, super-powered Head of Greater American Espionage, sets out to discover who is behind this dastardly deed.  Saber uses his telepathic abilities to trace the impulses that are directing the armies to an isolated outpost where he finds a fellow variously referred to…

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MINOR SUPER-HERO ROUND-UP 095

MINOR SUPER-HERO ROUND-UP 095

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There really are a lot of these guys, aren’t there? Hurricane: As presented, Hurricane is a real mythological mash-em-up: “son of Thor” but also “last descendant of the Ancient Greek immortals,” and arch-enemy to the Roman god Pluto. Pantheism, baybee! Hurricane’s whole deal is in being super fast, like mythically fast. The fact that he has a divine opponent is quite nice, in that it offsets some of the tendency of speedster characters to walk all over their opponents as…

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MEDIA IN COMICS 006

MEDIA IN COMICS 006

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Now that’s entertainment.  Magazines:  Are magazine titles in comics more likely to be plays on real ones than other forms of media? Perhaps. We’ll just have to see how many variations on Life and Time we can find over the years. Pretending to work for Living has enough caché that it gets these fascists into a secure aircraft plant – how long has it been since magazines were so relevant? (Big Shot Comics 014, 1941) Movies: I never actually mentioned it in the entry on the Hunchback of…

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GENERIC COSTUMED VILLAIN ROUND-UP 044

GENERIC COSTUMED VILLAIN ROUND-UP 044

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Bored? Unemployed? Why not explore a career in low-tier supercrime?  the ABC Gang: I must regretfully inform you that the ABC Gang that is described here does not appear in this issue, as Spencer Steel and his pal Doakes instead get sidetracked by a different gang that is looking to rob the bank that they pegged as the logical next target in the ABCs’ pattern. This is a real shame, because “gang who robs banks in alphabetical order by name,…

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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 048

ALIENS AND SO FORTH ROUND-UP 048

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Gosh! How alien they are! Frog-Men: These two Frog-Men cause trouble for Sub Saunders when they steal his ship for a little joyriding/ piracy session. They are undone by the fact that neither of them know how to drive, and are ultimately head-konked into submission after crash landing. What this tells us about Frog-Man society is unclear – if this were a Star Wars then the Frog-Men would end up being a race of car thieves, of course, but most…

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MAD AND CRIMINAL SCIENTIST ROUND-UP 025

MAD AND CRIMINAL SCIENTIST ROUND-UP 025

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I feel like we could avoid some of this unpleasantness if we made the Mad Arts a required part of the curriculum again. Unnamed Sorcerer: The Golden Knight and Alice are up to some good old-fashioned adventure, as they travel into the land of Kongola to seek out the cause of mysterious disappearances of people in adjoining Kooran. Just where are Kongola and Kooran? I’m going to say somewhere in what is now the United Kingdom since that that is…

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ALIENS AND SO FORTH ROUND-UP 042

ALIENS AND SO FORTH ROUND-UP 042

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I hope you like aliens, because I just can’t stop finding new ones.  Kobolians: The Kobolians are from the underwater city of Kobol in the year 10 000 CE, and while we don’t learn too much about how their society functions we can intuit a certain amount of civic pride, given that their leader is named Lobok – did he rise to power on the strength of that name? Did he adopt it? Is the city named after him? Whichever it is,…

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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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