(Marvel Mystery Comics 003, 1940)
These Martian invaders who showed up for one Human Torch story in 1940 are definitely my favourite comic book aliens in a while, if only because of this extremely cool car stunt.
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BULLSEYE BANNON MYSTERIES - THE STRANGE CASE OF EZRA ARK
The third and final instalment of the innovative marketing stunt. This case really makes a meal of setting up the various suspects over thre...
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(Crack Comics 001, 011 & 012, 1940-1941) The Cricket, leader of the Crickets, is a fairly undistinguished gang boss notable only for his... -
(Adventure 061, 1941) Starman's first foe is also his first super-foe: the diabolical Dr Doog. Doog (and nothing is ever made of his na... -
(Nickel Comics 001-003, 1940) A pretty regular "business guy branches out into costumed villainy" villain, Blackmask is distinguis... -
Heaven help me, I looked forward to the 1950s issues of Planet Comics to see what the Gale Allen feature ended up like and boy oh boy do I ... -
(Master Comics 009, 1940) Like the Blue Devils before them, the Horned Masks dressed up in robes and cowls and took over a small town. In t... -
(Masked Marvel 002, 1940) The Eraser Gang, aka the Erasers, aka the Dead Erasers, are a gang with a gimmick: they don't just hijack armo... -
(Planet Comics 003, 1940) The work of the Lord of Jupiter is never done, as Auro (Lord of Jupiter, natch) learns one day when he receives th... -
In short: the state of online wiki-based comics scholarship run by people with poor reading comprehension and an adherence to post-hoc conti...
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