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GENERIC COSTUMED VILLAIN ROUND-UP 043

GENERIC COSTUMED VILLAIN ROUND-UP 043

You give a guy access to a mask and some super-science and how does he repay you? Crime! Karno: The dapper Karno has a cool flying submarine, a metal-melting weapon and a plan to combine the two and do some old-fashioned piracy with them. He thinks that this scheme will be enhanced by the expert submarine piloting skills of Sub Saunders, but quickly learns the same lesson that all villains do upon incorporating a hero into their plans: it’s more hassle than…

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CATALOGUE OF WOUNDS 009

CATALOGUE OF WOUNDS 009

How can we have nice things if they keep getting so dinged up? the Black Terror: It might look like the Black Terror (‘s secret identity) is knocked out by falling down a flight of stairs onto his head, but according to him it was actually a bullet creasing the old skull that did the trick. (Exciting Comics 010, 1941) This is a tough one: the Black Terror is shot and nearly killed, and he kind of seems to be…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 967: THE FANG

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 967: THE FANG

(Fantastic Comics 017, 1941) The Fang is a recurring villain in the mould of his Fox Features contemporaries the Rook and the Beast: you can knock him down and seemingly kill him as much as you want but he’s just going to keep on coming back to do more crimes. When he first appears, the Fang’s major goal is to acquire the Burma Emerald from its caretaker Princess Kava, in order to decipher the secret of invisibility that has been…

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MEDIA IN COMICS 005

MEDIA IN COMICS 005

This is the stuff that my counterpart in a comic book universe is writing his little blogs about. Movies: Not only does this theatre feature an appearance by Lady Luck (an impostor, alas), but it has screenings of Boris Scarloff in Mummy Blood and Myrna Powell and William Loy in Thinner than the Thin Man! (Lady Luck, the Spirit Section 1940) The villainous Comrade Ratski might have founded Ratski Productions and filmed his opus The Great War as a cover for his espionage activities,…

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MINOR SUPER-HERO ROUND-UP 093

MINOR SUPER-HERO ROUND-UP 093

Fox Features, you burned hot and bright and brought us so many minor super-heroes. the Black Fury: The Black Fury, like Bob Phantom before him, is a newspaper gossip columnist who moonlights as a costumed vigilante. What are the chances that we would have two of those? I enjoy his costume even if it is somewhat generic even for 1941, though I am a bit upset that the glowing gemstone on his and his sidekick’s foreheads is never addressed. For…

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