MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 607: THE MIRACLE MEN

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 607: THE MIRACLE MEN

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(Fantastic Comics 005, 1940) Like a fair few Fletcher Hanks villains, the Miracle Men take a regular crime and amp it up to the nth degree. In this case, thanks to the technological marvel that is the Invisible Vacuum Tube, they have industrialized kidnapping. And if the ransom is not paid an appropriately oversized response can be delivered via their tornado making machines! This is modern, industrialized crime! Under the direction of leader Wolf-Eye, the Miracle Men perform hundreds of…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 606: THE BLACK DEATH

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 606: THE BLACK DEATH

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(Fantastic Comics 005, 1940) In Fantastic Comics 004 Sir Richard of Warwick, aka the Golden Knight, seeking his Crusading companions, arrives in the small village of Namara and learns that it has been cursed for the past ten years after a young girl fell down a well and her father blamed everyone but himself for it and cursed the village. The Golden Knight of course heads down that well because where the heck did that girl go? After a few…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 605: EELO THE FISH MAN

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 605: EELO THE FISH MAN

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(Fantastic Comics 005, 1940) I guess I have some initial sympathy for Eelo the Fish Man. It can’t be easy being a whatever-he-is in regular human society, let alone a resort island in the middle of the Indian Ocean. He might even be a sympathetic villain if literally his first act wasn’t to kidnap three women as breeding stock for his proposed new amphibian master race. Eelo’s plans also confound me: are they long or short term? He gasses on…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 604: PRINCE PIGZA

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 604: PRINCE PIGZA

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(Fantastic Comics 004, 1940)  Is Prince Pigza a proper super-villain or just a jerk? His major crime as discovered by a newly-amphibious Sub Saunders on an exploratory jaunt under the ocean is in not caring that his process for extracting gold from seawater is (possibly) causing disturbances along the coast of the US. Would it be polite to check? Is it a dick move not to stop? Both yes. If he didn’t lock up Sub Saunders for suggesting that he…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 603: THE MAD GIANT

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 603: THE MAD GIANT

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(Fantastic Comics 004, 1940) The Mad Giant is another Fletcher Hanks villain with a straightforward motivation: civilization has ruined his domination of a slave group (presumably a tribal society as he refers to them by the formerly much-used and now depricated term “savage”) and so he is simply going to end civilization. And given the method that he has chosen – pumping the Earth full of a chemical that will raise its temperature and cause widespread geologic upheaval – he…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 602: THE TALKING APE

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 602: THE TALKING APE

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(Fantastic Comics 004, 1940) Pilot/ adventurer/ confusing-name-haver Captain Kidd has heard some disturbing rumours about a cult of beast-men planning an attempt to take over the Sahara region and so he sets out to investigate. After bribing a local man to show him the way (and then carelessly letting the local man get captured by the cult), Kidd finds a weird bunch of things all at once: -the cult is indeed made up of beast-men, hoofed humanoids with pig or…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 601: THE THINKER

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 601: THE THINKER

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(Fantastic Comics 004, 1940)  After a couple of stories worth of interruptions, Space Smith and Dianna either finished the Brain off between issues or they and/or Fletcher Hanks forgot that he was an immanent threat to life on Earth because this issue finds them following a mysterious radio signal to sight-see a rare gold comet as it passes by the moon. Instead of watching the comet on its flyby, Space and Dianna are hit with a ray that disables their…

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NOTES – SEPTEMBER 2024

NOTES – SEPTEMBER 2024

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Honours:  Yank Wilson gets the Distinguished Service Medal for his efforts in preventing the the nation of Hondu (a Japan analog) from pulling a sneak attack on the US naval bases in Hawaii. I reckon that this is where Yank Wilson stops plausibly being in the near future and becomes a contemporary series – note the 3/4s perspective FDR. (Fantastic Comics 009, 1940) Samson’s sidekick David: lariat champion of his Boy Scout troop three years running. There’s a reason he…

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CREEPS OF THE WORLD: HUMANS OF THE YEAR 1001939

CREEPS OF THE WORLD: HUMANS OF THE YEAR 1001939

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(Fantastic Comics 004, 1940) Scientist Flip (formerly Flick) Falcon, along with gal pal Adele, usually find themselves contending with problems on the planet Mars thanks to Flip’s discovery of interplanetary teleportation based on transit through the Fourth Dimension. In this particular adventure, Flip and Adele flee Mars through a similar device created by Mars’ three-armed alien overlords and find themselves not back on the bucolic Earth of 1940 but… THE FUTURISTIC HELLSCAPE OF 1 001 939 CE! And not only…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 600: KILGOR

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 600: KILGOR

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(Fantastic Comics 004, 1940) Kilgor is a roboticist with a simple 5-step plan for success and world domination: 1. develop a giant super-robot on an isolated Pacific island. 2. ally with generic fascist dictator Rigo in order to acquire the industrial might required to manufacture your robot en mass. 3. Once Rigo decides that you are surplus to requirements and tries to eliminate you and claim the robot army for himself, turn the tables on him and take the reins…

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