I hope everyone likes monsters as much as I do because there are a whole lot of them to cover. Beaked Tyros: When polar explorer Anthony Conrad gets lost in an Arctic storm and falls through a hole in the pack ice, he reasonably expects to meet his demise. Instead, he falls into the subterranean kingdom of Artica and is chosen by the elderly Artican king – also a stranded former surface explorer – as his successor. As part of…
It’s time for more monsters! And also critters and creatures! Prehistoric Gorilla: This carnivorous cave-dwelling ape lives in a hidden valley in Africa and has a pretty sweet deal going with the local pterodactyls, whereby they bring him things to eat and he seemingly doesn’t have to do anything. This arrangement does eventually backfire after the pterodactyls grab Kaänga’s mate Ann and the justifiably miffed jungle lord follows them and slays the gorilla. (Jungle Comics 017, 1941) A few bonus dinosaurs…
(Jungle Comics 022, 1941) Zuko, aka the Bird King, is in a lot of ways a very classic minor super-villain. He has an obsession with birds and has both a flock of trained vultures and a set of working bird wings for personal flight that he uses in the pursuit of crime. He also has an obsession with diamonds that makes him jealously guard the ones that he has collected, and stop at nothing, including kidnapping and murder, to acquire more. The…
If I see a wound, I catalogue it. Camilla, Queen of the Lost Empire: Shot in the back with an arrow. (Jungle Comics 019, 1941) Captain Flag: Nearly dies of the Black Hand’s horrible hand disease. (Blue Ribbon Comics 016, 1941) the Cat-Man: Stabbed in the chest, to death (he gets better). (Crash Comics Adventures 004, 1940) Killed by a blood-freezing ray. He gets better again. (Crash Comics Adventures 005, 1940) Dynamo: Dynamo gets his skull creased by a bullet…