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ALIENS AND SO FORTH ROUND-UP 054

ALIENS AND SO FORTH ROUND-UP 054

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Comic book aliens: one of the few inexhaustible resources. Martians: Just as Doc Strong and his followers are starting to get the post-apocalyptic, WWII-lasted-a-century world of 2041 sorted out, a bunch of robot-looking Martians show up to ruin things by invading their territory on the Isle of Right. It’s just one thing after another with that year. Though they are fairly generic hostile invaders, these fellows really distinguish themselves among their class by immediately abandoning whatever plans that they had…

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DIVINE ROUND-UP 034

DIVINE ROUND-UP 034

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Here come some more gods and god-adjacent beings for you. the Golden Skull: While I must of course frown and shake my head at the concept of human sacrifice, you really have to hand it to the worshippers of the Golden Skull (who is, yes, very much not golden and also not especially skully), for giving their god a name that guarantees that a constant stream of American and European treasure hunters would arrive on their doorstep in search of…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 995: ORG

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 995: ORG

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(Jungle Comics 015, 1941) Org is a fellow with a gift – the power to play the drums hypnotically – and also the knowledge of the location of a hidden valley full of giant spiders. He combines these two factors as a part of his scheme to conquer “all of Jungleland,” which probably means Africa and possibly means India but in my heart will always mean a humid pocket dimension summoned into being by Fletcher Hanks and his fellow Jungle writers’ lack…

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DIVINE ROUND-UP 033

DIVINE ROUND-UP 033

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The theme today is animal gods. Joboloa the Elephant God: Joboloa the Elephant God is invoked by Fantomah to punish the evil M’Dibo by means of a horde of spectral pachyderms. Honestly he is an odd choice for the job, as while M’Dibo’s crimes involve elephant ivory it’s not so much that he’s killing elephants to get it as stealing it from other people. Is Joboloa cool with elephant hunting as long as a proper chain of possession is maintained?…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 993: ZOMAX

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 993: ZOMAX

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(Jungle Comics 014, 1941) Zomax, the “demonized marine scientist,” has a very over-the-top, Fletcher Hanks villain goal: to kill every animal in the jungle. And he isn’t afraid to say it. I won’t say that Zomax has a good reason for wanting to destroy all jungle life, but he does have some justification, stemming from a big game hunt he went on that involved, in order: 1. being mauled by a fatally wounded lion. Once the lion died, Zomax wandered away, only…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 992: THE VAHINES

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 992: THE VAHINES

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(Jungle Comics 013, 1941) The Vahines, aka the Tiger-Women of Wildmoon Mountain, have a plan: kill every other woman in the world, which will then give them ultimate power over all men. Some thoughts on this setup: 1. The logistics of this plan are trash. There are maybe 15 to 20 Vahines total and estimates put world population at around 2.3 billion in 1940, so murdering half of those people will be a full-time job that will probably take the…

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MAD AND CRIMINAL SCIENTIST ROUND-UP 027

MAD AND CRIMINAL SCIENTIST ROUND-UP 027

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A series of cautionary tales for budding young scientists. Orid Dass: Orid Dass is your standard jungle scientist: he’s out there making apes into men and men into apes, all for the love of the ape-man game. He also has the distinction of being the only foe faced by Fantomah the one post-Fletcher Hanks adventure in which she is still kind of a jungle demigod rather than a jungle hero who knows some magic. In that capacity, Fantomah does a…

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MINOR SUPER-HERO ROUND-UP 101

MINOR SUPER-HERO ROUND-UP 101

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It’s a big year for the jungle-based heroes of Fiction House, and also Radior is here. Camilla, Queen of the Lost Empire **UPDATE**: 1941 is the year of change for Camilla. First off, she faces a series of threats to the Lost Empire itself, beginning when an evil magician nearly conquers and partially razes the city. (Jungle Comics 014, 1941) Next issue, the otherwise-unremarkable lech Prince Renardo finishes the job and burns the city to the ground as part of…

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