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MINOR SUPER-HERO ROUND-UP 061

MINOR SUPER-HERO ROUND-UP 061

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Superfolk galore!  the Buzzard:  In an unnamed New-York-alike city, the gadgeteering mayor equips a young man with a suite of devices to help him engage in a vigilante crusade against crime. Chief among these gadgets is a gas that makes whomever it touches resemble a balding, big-nosed man in thick glasses and a tailcoat – the perfect disguise! Armed with this gas, plus some clawed gloves and a heat ray, the Buzzard begins tearing his way through the city’s underworld. …

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SUPER-VILLAIN FILE 001: DR SIVANA

SUPER-VILLAIN FILE 001: DR SIVANA

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(Whiz Comics 002, 1940)  Hearken back to yesterday’s Captain Marvel entry and you will see a tale of woe in which I lament my own poor planning with regard to how I dealt with non-obscure super-heroes. Well, I didn’t do much better with name-brand super-villains, I’ll tell you what. The Super-Villain Yearbook was an okay idea, but I didn’t really have a good implementation. I was going to be cluttering up my indices with links! Instead, we’re going to have…

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SUPER-HERO FILE 001: CAPTAIN MARVEL

SUPER-HERO FILE 001: CAPTAIN MARVEL

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(Whiz Comics 002, 1940)  When I fist made this blog it was mostly as a way to keep up a twitter thread that I was really enjoying but which was not enough to keep me on a rapidly-curdling social media platform. This is why all of the early entries are so short: because they’re just beefed-up tweets. This is also why I focused so heavily on obscure super-villains at first and only expanded my purview to include obscure super-heroes and more prominent…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 861: EMPEROR CORON

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 861: EMPEROR CORON

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(Whirlwind Comics 003, 1940) Earth in the far-off future of 1980 CE simply can’t catch a break! This time they’re being pelted with comets from somewhere in the vicinity of Jupiter and as per usual scientist-adventurer Bruce Barlow is on the case. And he’s a good choice, as evidenced by the fact that even when he has a rocket mishap and ends up going entirely the wrong way, crashing on Venus… … he still finds the source of the comets! This is…

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DIVINE ROUND-UP 012

DIVINE ROUND-UP 012

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Craig Carter’s whole deal is summoning ancient gods out of his ring, and since he only had two issues in which to do so I am able to offer you a complete list of them here. With pictures! Zeus:  Zeus acts as the spokesgod of Craig Carter’s magic ring, and seems to be the one in charge of summoning forth the other deities. He’s called the “god of wisdom” here. I dig his little crown. (Wham Comics 001, 1940) Pegasus:…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 860: MUSKOG

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 860: MUSKOG

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(Whirlwind Comics 002, 1940) This is Muskog, ruler of the Earth’s core in the far-future year of 1980 CE and total dick. Muskog has been blasting the surface of the planet with a static electricity ray for seemingly no reason whatsoever, or at least no reason that he cares to state. This of course attracts the attention of crack science adventurer Bruce Barlow, who ventures into the molten depths on behalf of his people to ask “how come?” There are…

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REAL PERSON ROUND-UP 018

REAL PERSON ROUND-UP 018

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World leaders and others.  Adolf Hitler:  I’m pretty sure that the “Navy Jones” strip is set in an undefined near-future time, which makes the Dictator of Europe here a future analog of Adolf Hitler rather than a stand-in for him. I’m almost certain that that’s the case. Anyway, he tries to invade the US with a fleet of amphibious tanks and gets his ass handed to him by Navy Jones and his fish men. (Weird Comics 008, 1940) Chiang Kai-shek and Soong…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 859: TOKO THE TERRIBLE

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 859: TOKO THE TERRIBLE

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(Whirlwind Comics 001, 1940) In the far future of 1980 CE, Earth is under threat of conquest from space. A mysterious ray has dissolved the nation of Slovania, and now a being called Toko the Terrible, Emperor of Saturn has issued an ultimatum: surrender to him or the entire Earth will suffer the same fate. This of course will not stand, and Earth sends their best guy (Bruce Barlow), to deal with the threat of Toko. Barlow, being a man…

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GENERIC COSTUMED VILLAIN ROUND-UP 026

GENERIC COSTUMED VILLAIN ROUND-UP 026

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A wretched and motley crew for ye this day.  Mikal, leader of the undersea pirates, is an evocative figure who exists only to pad out the Typhon story that he appears in by a couple of pages. In an attempt to aid his ally, the king of the Sea Demons, he gets off one good hydro-jet blast at Typhon’s submarine before he and his entire undersea fortress are annihilated by the sub’s hydro-ray. (Weird Comics 005, 1940) Friends, I am…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 858: THE FROST

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 858: THE FROST

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(Wham Comics 002, 1940) Just after Blue Fire gets his powers and vows to use them to beat up “criminals, racketeers and foreign spies” he is served a chance to do so on a silver platter when his local newspaper carries an account of a ship at sea being sabotaged by a very cold man who just stood around in the engine room until everything broke.  Making his way to the ship in question, Blue Fire uses his intangibility power…

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