{"id":3931,"date":"2024-07-22T08:54:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T11:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=3931"},"modified":"2026-09-27T18:16:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T21:16:15","slug":"mad-and-criminal-scientist-round-up-009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=3931","title":{"rendered":"MAD AND CRIMINAL SCIENTIST ROUND-UP 009"},"content":{"rendered":"

You know how it is with these guys. Their science is mad and\/or criminal! <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Felix Zurich, lab assistant to Professor Trent, has hidden the professor away in a castle improbably located in the middle of the jungle in Africa, all so that Zurich can force him to perfect his invention of the ever-popular engine-killing ray. This is a Blackstone the Magician story so of course Zurich is also an accomplished stage magician and there is a pivotal duel of illusions. Ultimately, a high-speed canoe chase ends with Zurich going over Victoria Falls while Blackstone and his companions serenely float down on parachutes. (Super-Magician v1 002, 1941)  <\/p>\n

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This here scientist and his brother are for some reason trying to turn young women into statues. They don’t get very far before being beat up by Ted Parrish, the Man With 1000 Faces (Speed Comics 001, 1939)<\/p>\n

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Senor Anza here is one of your scientists with mysterious motivations: he’s been blowing up passing ships on their way to or from the Panama Canal using his very cool Radium Ray, but just why<\/i> he’s doing it is not elaborated on. Top possibilities are “as a weapons test prior to some other scheme” and “on behalf of the Axis forces” with a possibility of “straightforward homicidal madness” but as Anza ends up stone dead at the hands of super-spy K-51 and his colleague\/ fiance\/ fellow super-spy Z-19 all speculation is purely academic. (Wonderworld Comics 004, 1939)<\/p>\n

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The Professor Maxon mentioned above never appears in person in the story but does<\/i> carry a scientific rivalry far enough that he completes the extinction of the dodo rather than allow his rival Professor Stone get credit for his discovery of a remnant population. (Champion Comics 006, 1940)<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You know how it is with these guys. Their science is mad and\/or criminal! Felix Zurich, lab assistant to Professor Trent, has hidden the professor away in a castle improbably located in the middle of the jungle in Africa, all so that Zurich can force him to perfect his invention of the ever-popular engine-killing ray. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,14,2077,1663,44,480,3,239,898,773,101,530,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-69","category-14","category-bill-handy","category-blackstone-the-magician","category-dead","category-engine-killing-ray","category-fox-features","category-harvey-comics","category-k-51","category-man-with-1000-faces","category-scientist","category-street-smith","category-the"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3931","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=3931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3932,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3931\/revisions\/3932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}