(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…
Super-heroes. Like heroes, but super. Captain Midnight: Like the second, more popular (though still pretty obscure) Captain Midnight that will be published by Fawcett starting in 1942, this fellow is an adaptation of the radio character, and unlike the second Captain Midnight, this one is a pretty direct adaptation. It’s a bit abbreviated and you kind of have to keep referring to the Captain Midnight Wikipedia page to fill in the gaps where your assumed familiarity with the radio show lies, but…