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MINOR SUPER-HERO ROUND-UP 063

MINOR SUPER-HERO ROUND-UP 063

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Pilots! Vexatious pilots! Will they give me no peace?   the Skull Squad:  Yet another gang of pilots with some pretty lacklustre skull theming to go with their name. The Skull Squad is an international affair, with American Jimmy Jones, Englishman Kent Douglas and Scotsman Jock “Sandy” MacGregor all flying a bomber for the RAF and predictably getting into wild and wooly scrapes. (Wings Comics 001, 1940) SKULL SCORE:  0.5/5  the Parachute Patrol: The Parachute Patrol are Tommy, Curly and Blimpo…

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NOTES – SEPTEMBER 2025

NOTES – SEPTEMBER 2025

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Honours – Beautia:  Beautia Not-Yet-Officially-Sivana wins the Empress of Beauty Contest (Whiz Comics 003b, 1940) Later in the year, Beautia saves the US Pacific fleet from being destroyed by Dr Sivana, and gets an unspecified medal from the Navy for it. (Whiz Comics 009, 1940) Cops Shooting Unarmed Suspects: This California police chief almost blows away Ibis the Invincible for sassing him and is only prevented thanks to ancient Egyptian magic. (Whiz Comics 008, 1940) Skeletons With Jobs: Soldier skeleton….

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ALIENS AND SO FORTH ROUND-UP 017

ALIENS AND SO FORTH ROUND-UP 017

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A panoply of wonders awaits. Karnak’s Slaves:  This otherwise-unnamed race from an unnamed planet get a pretty raw deal: conquered and mind-controlled into servitude by scientist Karnak, they all seemingly die when he does. It’s a real shame. (Weird Comics 007, 1940)  the Deadly Plants:  It’s hard to say much about the so-called “Deadly Plants” of planet Vegeto, aside from the fact that they work together to capture a handful of prospective human colonists and dump them in a pit,…

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DEMONIC ROUND-UP 002

DEMONIC ROUND-UP 002

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Look out! Its demons! Lucifer:  Dastardly voodoo man the Voodoo Man has this version of Lucifer possess a young woman for some dang reason. He’s got a pretty good look with the sideburns and all, but is surprisingly easy to chase away with an anemically-presented crucifix. (Weird Comics 006, 1940) the Unholy One:  The Unholy One is an infernal servant of some kind who has been summoned as a sort of demonic search engine by the Green Sorceress. He appears…

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ALIENS AND SO FORTH ROUND-UP 016

ALIENS AND SO FORTH ROUND-UP 016

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Love those aliens. And so forth.  the Sea Demons: The Sea Demons are a hostile underwater race of fish-men who look great but get very little character development as a society. Their main thing seems to be a deeps desire to attack and capture… the Sea Amazons: The Sea Amazons (described as “blonde Sea Amazons” at least twice in the text despite the fact that a pretty noticeable percentage of them – including their queen! – are brunettes) are about…

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ALIENS AND SO FORTH ROUND-UP 014

ALIENS AND SO FORTH ROUND-UP 014

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We’ve hit a rich seam of aliums this month. Mermaid/ Reptile-Men: This city of Reptile-Men is ruled over by a Mermaid queen, and I am forced to contemplate, and not for the first time, whether this is an instance of a member or group of one species ruling over another or if it’s one of extreme sexual dimorphism. Whichever one it is, I do appreciate that the Reptile-Men have that really goofy wide stance going on with their lizard legs….

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ALIENS AND SO FORTH ROUND-UP 013

ALIENS AND SO FORTH ROUND-UP 013

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You wouldn’t believe how many of these I have. Unnamed Planetoid-Dwellers:  Blast Bennett and his pal Red run into these guys on a planetoid somewhere between Venus and Mercury and exclusively refer to them as “savages” even though they fly around in their own spaceship. Get off their planetoid, weirdos. (Weird Comics 003, 1940) the Brainmen: The Brainmen of the planet Larz are a bunch of large-headed jerks who have conquered… Earth? some time around the Year 5000, when Whiz…

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ALIENS AND SO FORTH ROUND-UP 012

ALIENS AND SO FORTH ROUND-UP 012

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You won’t believe these guys.  the Mermen:  Some undersea jerks who capture explorer Typhon and his crew. Their leader is a real creep named Neptune who has a nigh-fetishistic plan to freeze the crew – and particularly sole female crewmember Cecelia – into blocks of ice and then breathe fire on them. Luckily for all who might venture beneath the waves, he drowns (?) during Typhon’s escape. (Weird Comics 002, 1940) the Beaked Men: The Beaked Men of Mercury’s mountains…

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DIVINE ROUND-UP 011

DIVINE ROUND-UP 011

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Lookit’m go! Thor:  This particular version of Thor, Norse God of Thunder invests mortal man Grant Farrel with his powers, but while most ancient gods who get up to that sort of thing in comics are looking for an agent to fight against or promote a cause or agenda, Thor seems to just seems to want to see his powers being used in adventures. It’s kind of wholesome! Please also note the weird discs on Thor’s helmet. What the heck…

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DIVINE ROUND-UP 009

DIVINE ROUND-UP 009

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I came across Jumbo Comics 031 while filling in gods from my backlog in another Divine Round-Up entry and realized that the array of entities represented in the Stuart Taylor story in that issue should be presented as a block. Mercury:  This story begins as most Stuart Taylor stories do, with reckless use of time travel technology. Specifically, Taylor’s love interest Laura Hayward has travelled back to Ancient Greece to buy a new hat, because as we know: women be…

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