FASCIST GOON CLEARING HOUSE 002

More fascist chodes for your edification:

The American Freedom Club AKA the Movement AKA the New Order were propagandists looking to corrupt the youth of the nation, starting with the Boyville Orphanage and ending with a beating from the Boyville Brigadiers (Feature Comics 047, 1941)

The Anti-American Bund, a standard outsized play on the weenies that were the German-American Bund (remember them as the ones who ran away before Jack Kirby could ride the elevator down to beat them up). This version is for some reason forcing this lady who merely married a bundist to be their leader until she is rescued by Neon the Unknown (Hit Comics 008, 1941)

The Double Cross! A non-specific Axis force poised to invade the US from within but foiled by the scientific acumen of Wizard Wells and the rough and tumble charm of his assistant Tug (Crack Comics 012, 1941)

The Fasdicks/ the Fasdick Company, a fascist organization operating a business as a front for an invasion of the Phillipines and possibly a very oblique rude pun name? Foiled by Spin Shaw (Feature Comics 040, 1941)

MINOR SUPER-HERO 029: THE BOYVILLE BRIGADIERS

(Feature Comics 045, 1941)

It's a tale as old as time, by which I mean about a year: noncostumed adventurers adopting costumed identities to keep up with the oncoming juggernaut that is the Golden Age super-hero boom. In this case, it's Rusty Ryan and the other unusually muscular teens of the Boyville orphanage, who up until now were more of a high school sports type of bunch, dealing with the plague of unscrupulous gamblers betting on local hockey games and catching the occasional band of counterfeiters.

As the Boyville Brigadiers, Ryan and his cohorts are even more dull than what I just described. Rather than the Kirby-style boy gang dynamic of making every member their own distinct style of weirdo, the Brigadiers barely have names, let alone personalities. The only really interesting thing about them, in fact, is how weirdly similar their costumes are to Captain America's. 

Still, they go on the list of patriotic heroes. Hooray!