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Some day these won’t inevitably start with Hitler. Some day. <\/p>\n

Adolf Hitler<\/b>: <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Rix, a human living on Venus in the peaceful year 3090 CE, learns about dictators thanks to the time capsule from the 1939 New York World’s Fair and immediately sets out to make himself into the Hitler of the future. Beat down by interplanetary troubleshooter Planet Payson. (Planet Comics 008, 1940)<\/p>\n

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Aviator Ted O’Neil is brought down in the warlike nation of Gestapia (one of the more on-the-nose Nazi Germany stand-ins I have encountered), ruled over by dictator “Schnitzler.” (Prize Comics 004, 1940)<\/p>\n

Al Capone<\/b>:<\/p>\n

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It’s just a shorthand reference for “bigtime gangster” but Scarface Marone here is absolutely an Al Capone pastiche for the one and a half panels he appears in before jumping out a window to avoid capture. (Rocket Comics 002, 1940)<\/p>\n

Anna Roosevelt<\/b>:<\/p>\n

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She’s referred to only as “the President’s daughter” throughout this adventure which sees her being kidnapped and almost killed by Gerlandian spies before being rescued by Electro here, but it’s 1940 and the US has had precisely one President’s Daughter for nearly eight years at this point and it’s Anna Roosevelt. (Science Comics 001, 1940)<\/p>\n

Captain Nemo<\/b>: <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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It shouldn’t have surprised me when Navy Jones, established in the previous issue to be descended from the legendary Davy Jones<\/a>, encounters not-just-fictional-but-fictional-from-about-seventy-years-earlier figure Captain Nemo while noodling around under the sea with his paramour Princess Coral, but I’m afraid that it did. And not only do they team up to battle octopus men and recover an ancient Roman map to Atlantis together but Nemo basically joins the “Navy Jones” cast going forward! (Science Comics 005, 1940)<\/p>\n

FDR<\/b>:<\/p>\n

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Science Comics <\/i>003, 1940<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Genghis Khan<\/b>: <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Obvious allusion to Genghis Khan in Khangiz, the warlike master of Mars in the year 40 000 CE. (Planet Comics 002, 1940)<\/p>\n

J Edgar Hoover<\/b>:<\/p>\n

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You have a comic book character who works for the FBI and eventually an unnamed J Edgar Hoover is going to show up and congratulate them for doing their job, as happens to FBI agent Buck Brady here. (Prize Comics 005, 1940)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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J Edgar Hoover is not only Joe “the Shield” Higgins’ boss at the FBI but he was the best friend of Tom Higgins, Joe’s father. (Shield-Wizard Comics 001, 1940)<\/p>\n

Minor appearances:<\/p>\n

Science Comics<\/i> 003, 1940<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Oak Island<\/b>:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Even though Fu Chang operates out of San Francisco and thus Money Pit Island is located somewhere in the Pacific, its name alone twigs it as at least inspired by the legend of Oak Island, which (I checked) was indeed going strong as of 1940 (Pep Comics 009, 1940)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some day these won’t inevitably start with Hitler. Some day. Adolf Hitler: Rix, a human living on Venus in the peaceful year 3090 CE, learns about dictators thanks to the time capsule from the 1939 New York World’s Fair and immediately sets out to make himself into the Hitler of the future. Beat down by interplanetary troubleshooter Planet Payson. (Planet Comics 008, 1940) Aviator Ted O’Neil is brought down in the warlike nation of Gestapia (one of the more on-the-nose…<\/p>\n

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