We’ve gone back to revisit some comics I read early on in this project, which means that I get to slap my forehead and yell “why did I skip that guy?” every five minutes or so. Here are some of those guys. Samson: Samson is the strongman at the same circus that Toro is a part of when the Human Torch finds him. As such he is preloaded with one of the two possible strongman personalities: criminally arrogant or very…
Time for a heaping dose of real folk from Golden Age Marvel comics. Adolf Hitler: Kalph Belgri, dictator of Torpis, takes his own life when his invasion of neighbouring Molivia is thwarted by Electro. (Marvel Mystery Comics v1 005, 1940) The Human Torch encounters Adolphe Hiccup, dictator of Slaveland, while foiling a plot to fool his sidekick Toro into aiding their war effort. He is seen colluding with his ally Benny Musclein, who is such a clear Mussolini stand-in that…