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ALIENS AND SO FORTH ROUND-UP 065

ALIENS AND SO FORTH ROUND-UP 065

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You simply cannot have comic book adventures without a few aliens creeping in around the edges. It’s science. Monkey-Men: These Monkey-Men are encountered by Congo Bill while searching for a long-lost explorer named Desmond in the deep dark jungle. There’s not much to distinguish them from other the other ape-people we have encountered thusfar, aside from the fact that they live in cool-looking cone-shaped houses. The missing Desmond of course turns out to be an amnesiac who is living with…

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SUPER-HERO FILE 015: CONGO BILL

SUPER-HERO FILE 015: CONGO BILL

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(More Fun Comics 056, 1940) Here’s the thing about Congo Bill: he is functionally exactly the same as a hundred other two-fisted Golden Age jungle adventurers. Perhaps he is a bit less bloodthirsty than some of his peers, but if you lined up every single one of them and asked someone not in the know to pick out the one who would still be appearing in comics eighty-odd years later there is no way that they would guess correctly other…

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MEDIA IN COMICS 013

MEDIA IN COMICS 013

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Today in Media in Comics, we’re all about the Movies: Movie star Dawn O’Dare returns to her home town of Holtville to premiere her new picture Love Me Forever! but the whole affair is almost undone when her understudy attempts to impersonate her and make off with the theatrical take, only to in turn be foiled by local copy boy Hap Hazard. (Lightning Comics v2 004, 1941) Angry Waves, a sea epic, features a found footage action scene as one of the…

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