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Month: July 2024

NOTES – JULY 2024

NOTES – JULY 2024

Cops Shooting Fleeing Suspects:  The cops send a “shower of bullets” after the Fantom of the Fair as he swings over the densely-populated New York World’s Fair. (Amazing Adventure Funnies 001, 1940) Spider Drawn Without Reference: Tarantula: a perfect black sphere covered in root structures. (Champion Comics 006, 1940) Memes of Yore: COWARD!: The “cowardly and superstitious lot” line that Batman is quoted as saying was not a one-off thing but it was in fact a widely-promoted idea of the…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 557: DEATH

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 557: DEATH

(Wonderworld Comics 003, 1939) Like I said in the Devil’s entry yesterday: Death and the Devil have teamed up as a sort of Yarko the Great Revenge Squad because Yarko saves so many live and souls, respectively. I also mentioned that Death did all of the legwork toward getting Yarko just where they wanted him, and here that is: Death kills a seemingly random London man then delivers him to the police, leaving only a calling card behind. The discovery…

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