Friday, May 2, 2025

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 778: THE SKYWAYMEN

(Super-Mystery Comics v1 004, 1940)



Over the course of the last few years I've really beefed up the amount of images and words I use to describe the minor super-villains I so love, but sometimes you gotta hearken back to the old ways:

When aviator Sky Smith heads to Alaska to help out his friend Tom Harris with a mysterious problem, he finds that a band of air pirates called the Skywaymen (fantastic name) led by a man named Rolf Calgar (better-than-average name) are trying to drive him off of his land so that they can use it as an air base. Smith proceeds to blow most of the Skywaymen to smithereens using their own deathtrap and delivers Calgar to the authorities before flying off to seek further adventure.

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