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Month: September 2025

ALIENS AND SO FORTH ROUND-UP 015

ALIENS AND SO FORTH ROUND-UP 015

A veritable bounty of aliens for your perusal. People of Venus, the Jibbering Giant of Jupiter, Weird Inhabitants of the Strange Planet:  Blast Bennett has lost his little pal Red, and his solution is to just kind of bop around from planet to planet, asking random aliens if they have seen a red-headed guy. I’ve grouped these alien together because they all represent a very boring alien design trend of the 40s and 50s (and beyond!): the alien as just…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 847: THE WIZARD OF ZORO

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 847: THE WIZARD OF ZORO

(Weird Comics 004, 1940)  The Wizard of Zoro really takes the prize for the Most Charming Atrocity of 1940 when he swoops down on a small town and turns everyone into the kind of semi-anthropomorphic giant frogs that you get in Victorian greeting cards. Do I love that he then enslaves the frogs? No. Do I endorse the fact that he singles out an attractive young woman for special torment by turning her boyfriend into a snake? Of course not….

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