Saturday, September 30, 2023

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 349: THE GHOST KILLERS

(Master Comics 012, 1941)


Maybe someday I'll wish that I had started out putting all of the various gangs of masked Western outlaws in group posts like the generic villains or mad scientists. But maybe not, because the major difference between those three groups is that the other two are par for the course in a super-hero comic while masked outlaws are frequently the only interesting thing about a Western comic.

Anyway: the Ghost Killers (unofficial name - they are hard to find and they kill witnesses) are fun because they are made up of the remnants of the White Arrow's gang and achieve their ghostly status by operating out of the town jail, coming and going via some loose bars until Marshal Buck Jones gets wise and slaps leather, rendering one of them and actual ghost and sending the other two to big boy jail.

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