Sunday, December 18, 2022

MINOR SUPER-HERO 026: ZERO, GHOST DETECTIVE

(Feature Comics 032-074, 1940-1943)


Eyyy, it's Zero the Ghost Detective!


I have a blanket love of the psychic detective genre and unusually for the Golden Age Zero's cases almost always end up being actually supernatural as opposed to being a crook in a sheet - the above panels are from a case wherein a bitter old man dies and comes back as a three-fingered ogre to drag the rest of his family into death with him. It's usually something gruesome and lots of people get killed by ghosts. What fun!

Zero himself is a bit of a cypher as his adventures never really dip into his private life but does that really matter? He should absolutely be brought back as a foil to Dr Thirteen. Oh how they would annoy one another!

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