FASCIST GOON CLEARING HOUSE 005

Fascist, Smascist

The Volunteers for Peace are another group that advocates for the US not to get involved in WWII as shorthand for them being full-on fascist fifth columnists setting the country up for an invasion by the evocatively-named Nation X. Don't worry, not even Golden Age Superman has any trouble beating down a bunch of pseudo-Nazis (Action Comics 036, 1941)

Another batch of Yellow Shirts, this time with a space! This bunch are some more bundists and they have the misfortune to tangle with ultranationalist adventurer Don Glory (Hit Comics 013, 1941)

The Grey-Shirts were the personal army of early Justice Society villain the Leader. They were a diverse group - most cells were bundists but some were imported from the non-German Teutonic Fatherland that the Leader himself called home. (All-Star Comics 004, 1941)

The Peace Clan are willing to kill for their ideals of US non involvement in foreign wars, and Doc Savage is willing to kill them to keep them from doing so. Also they dress and act a lot like the KKK. Also they're actually literal Nazis. (Doc Savage Comics v1 006, 1940)

TROPHY ROOM - DON GLORY

(Hit Comics 010, 1941)

Patriotic numbskull Don Glory gets a new set of wheels after foiling a plot to drag the US into WWII, a very mid-1941 thing to be against and presumably a thing that everyone conveniently forgot about from 1942 onward.

NOTES - MARCH 2023

New Powers:

An injured Hawkman is tended to by birds and learns to speak their language. (Flash Comics v1 023, 1941)

Just some of my favourite alien designs ever: the Kriglo AKA Martian Spider-Men (Flash Comics v1 024, 1941)

Super Hero Costume Party:

Hawkman attends a costume party with Shiera Sanders as Hawkgirl. Though not the first time she wore the costume, this does mark the start of the two as a crime-fighting duo ongoing, no matter what stinky ol' Hawkman says. (Flash Comics v1 024, 1941)

Rick Raleigh might have intended to attend this party as the Red Bee in that classic cheeky move, but ended up getting mixed up in a murder and attending as a different guy dressed as the Red Bee. (Hit Comics 014, 1941)

Really enjoy the selection of creature that inhabit the inner earth in the year 50029 CE: Mud Men, Rock Men, hot ladies, and down at the very bottom: guys with beards. (Hit Comics 003, 1940)

Quality comics with another entry for the list of increasingly unhinged patriotic heroes: Don Glory, the xenophobic jingoist former boxer (Hit Comics 008, 1941)