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CREEPS OF THE WORLD: HUMANS OF THE YEAR 1001939

CREEPS OF THE WORLD: HUMANS OF THE YEAR 1001939

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(Fantastic Comics 004, 1940) Scientist Flip (formerly Flick) Falcon, along with gal pal Adele, usually find themselves contending with problems on the planet Mars thanks to Flip’s discovery of interplanetary teleportation based on transit through the Fourth Dimension. In this particular adventure, Flip and Adele flee Mars through a similar device created by Mars’ three-armed alien overlords and find themselves not back on the bucolic Earth of 1940 but… THE FUTURISTIC HELLSCAPE OF 1 001 939 CE! And not only…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 600: KILGOR

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 600: KILGOR

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(Fantastic Comics 004, 1940) Kilgor is a roboticist with a simple 5-step plan for success and world domination: 1. develop a giant super-robot on an isolated Pacific island. 2. ally with generic fascist dictator Rigo in order to acquire the industrial might required to manufacture your robot en mass. 3. Once Rigo decides that you are surplus to requirements and tries to eliminate you and claim the robot army for himself, turn the tables on him and take the reins…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 599: POSEIDA

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 599: POSEIDA

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(Fantastic Comics 003, 1940) Back to the adventures of Sub Saunders in the Year 10 000 CE! Naulus has been defeated and for their part in achieving that the US military, represented by Sub Saunders, have been promised untold subsea riches recovered from millennia of shipwrecks. The problem with this plan is that the riches are still just kind of out on the seafloor and more specifically that Poseida, ruler of the nearby city of Coralla, has decided to gather…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 598: THE DEMON

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 598: THE DEMON

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(Fantastic Comics 003, 1940) The Demon is a pretty straightforward Stardust enemy: he thinks that there are too many people on Earth and so is going to destroy cities until he gets that number under control. Exactly why he thinks that there are too many people (fear of overcrowding? an ahead-of-his-time radical environmentalist? simple misanthropy?) is not explored. This is of course exactly the sort of thing to draw Stardust the Super Wizard like a magnet. Importantly, this happens before…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 597: NEGUS

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 597: NEGUS

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(Fantastic Comics 003, 1940) An evil African witch doctor with a magical orb, a cool tree house and a real commitment to being Chaotic Evil, Negus meets a swift end once Captain Kidd comes looking for his imprisoned and mind controlled pal Arndt Barrows Colonel Bennet (as with a surprising number of Golden Age comics, the writer seems to have lost track of the name of this secondary character over the course of a 5 page story).

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 596: THE ROBOT SCIENTISTS OF VENUS

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 596: THE ROBOT SCIENTISTS OF VENUS

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(Fantastic Comics 003, 1940)  The Robot Scientists of Venus are not particularly noteworthy villains on a lot of axes but they are the bosses of perhaps the most visually distinctive groups of the Golden Age, the Leopard Women of Venus. What other comic could offer a visual like this: a bevy of bodacious blonde babes in red leopardprint bodysuits, surfing through space on lizard monsters and blazing away with their head-guns? Other Fletcher Hanks comics, I guess, plus early Wonder…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 595: THE VOICE

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 595: THE VOICE

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(Fantastic Comics 002, 1940) Captain Kidd and his pal Freddy land on the… Southeast Asian? island of Morgia, known to be rich in gold but critically not to ever export that gold. As the heroes of the piece, Kidd and Freddy are of course there to just look around and seeing the sights, not to scoop up a bunch of gold on the cheap. Certainly not. Instead of free gold tourist hotspots they find dozens of local people dead of…

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MINOR SUPER-HERO ROUND-UP 024

MINOR SUPER-HERO ROUND-UP 024

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Buncha fresh heroes here! Son of the Gods:  Dr John Thesson, big tall archaeologist and 1940s arch-skeptic, has the misfortune to find himself on an expedition to Crete with true believer Professor Craig who can’t stop running his mouth about how great Theseus was and how he totally existed and maybe Thesson and Craig can find Theseus’ mystic Ring of Poseidon if they look hard enough. It is a very annoying expedition for Thesson. Just kidding: this is a comic…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 594: RIP-THE-BLOOD

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 594: RIP-THE-BLOOD

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(Fantastic Comics 002, 1940) As weird as Fletcher Hanks stories are, sometimes the hardest thing to parse are the seem-like-they-should-mean-something names. Take Rip-the-Blood here: is this just a weird way to present a fellow named Rip with the nickname of “the Blood” or does his name mean something more? Is he so tough he’ll “rip the blood” out of you? I never know with this guy. Whatever his name means, Rip-the-Blood is a bad dude: through his influence over US…

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