(Thrilling Comics 005, 1940)
Sometimes when I'm writing the original drafts of these entries I'm tired or rushed or the like and I go into Extreme Shorthand Mode, and sometimes that version of the writeup is very charming to me when I come back to it a couple of weeks later. Which is all to say that the younger, rushed version of me wrote "merlin stung by brutal own" to describe how the venerable wizard took being exposed as a fraud by the Ghost during one of his time-travel adventures, and I think it captures something. Is it enough to explain Merlin selling out Camelot to Morgan le Fay? Probably not, but it clearly was in the eyes of a 1940s comics book writer.
Don't worry, however, because the Ghost is still on hand and is most certainly not a charlatan. He conjures up a big pile of machine guns and grenades for the Knights of the Round Table, and s my past self put it: "modern weapons vs medieval is okay if its vs bad guys."
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