Saturday, May 21, 2022

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 016: THE HOODED HORDES

 (Detective v1 017, 1938)


If there's one thing that Golden Age comics have in great supply, it's US fascist groups seeking to (variously) undermine the country's war production, keep the US out of WWII, draw the US into WWII, or take over the country outright. And while most of these groups are just some guys called the Purple Shirts who rough up a shopkeeper for not loving the Fatherland more than his adopted land of AMERICA, a few, like the Hooded Hordes here, get their act together enough to be minor super-villain organizations.

I mean, they don't really get up to much more than the hypothetical Purple Shirts - mostly disrupting war production in a bid to take over the US - but there's a lot to be said about doing so in a sheet ghost outfit with a skull and crossbones on the chest.

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