{"id":1685,"date":"2024-03-22T08:37:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T11:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=1685"},"modified":"2026-09-27T16:35:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T19:35:20","slug":"fascist-goon-clearing-house-006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=1685","title":{"rendered":"FASCIST GOON CLEARING HOUSE 006"},"content":{"rendered":"

Who will rid me of these fascist goons?<\/p>\n

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The Nordland Bund is another German-American Bund analog but operates as more of a traditional spy operation on behalf of Nazi Germany stand-in Prussland. Their moderately complicated plan to get explosive coal onto US ships leaving Bermuda is foiled by Secret Agent D-13 and his Canadian counterpart\/ love interest Lorraine MacAlinn (Mystery Men Comics 019, 1941)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Like the man’s feet say, the Hoops are a bunch of Nazis (proper Nazis – Fox Features seems to have stopped pussyfooting around with oblique references and backwards words in the last few months of 1941) who had a signature move of leaving a hoop around the neck of their victims. And the word the Blue Beetle is searching for is explode<\/i> the hoops explode. And fittingly enough the Blue Beetle later uses one of those hoops to explode Baron Gell, leader of the big-h Hoops. (Mystery Men Comics 025, 1941)<\/p>\n

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Technically this group is nameless and the Anti-Foreigners Committee is a supposedly patriotic group run by their leader as a cover, but if there’s a name that underlines the simmering fascism that underlies ultra-patriotism better than that one then I can’t recall it. (Amazing-Man Comics 022, 1941)<\/p>\n

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These guys are called the Thorns for no particular reason. Just a buncha Nazi goons with a more poetic name than usual. They go up against ultrapatriotic teen Paul Revere, Jr and also his dad. (Banner Comics 003, 1941)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Who will rid me of these fascist goons? The Nordland Bund is another German-American Bund analog but operates as more of a traditional spy operation on behalf of Nazi Germany stand-in Prussland. Their moderately complicated plan to get explosive coal onto US ships leaving Bermuda is foiled by Secret Agent D-13 and his Canadian counterpart\/ […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,94,1358,35,156,195,3,13,1357,258,201,1359,1083,1361,129,1360],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-14","category-ace-magazines","category-anti-foreigners-committee","category-blue-beetle","category-crypto-fascist","category-fascist","category-fox-features","category-group","category-hoops","category-mighty-man","category-nazi","category-nordland-bund","category-paul-revere-jr","category-secret-agent-d-13","category-spy","category-thorns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1686,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685\/revisions\/1686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}