CATALOGUE OF WOUNDS 005

More wounds for the Catalogue of Wounds!

Ace of Space:

Shot in the left arm during an attempted skyjacking. (Feature Comics 041, 1941)

the Black Hood:

As part of Kip Burland's journey to masked vigilantism he gets shot all to hell and back by the Skull's minions. The shots we can see happening are all hitting him in the torso, and according to his hermit mentor there were at least eight of them. Sheesh. (Top-Notch Comics 009, 1940)

Chic Carter:

Chic takes a bullet to his right arm while contending with the Phantom's very satanic boss. (Smash Comics 015, 1941)

the Comet:

Shot in the left shoulder by a gun-wielding member of an angry mob that is after him. (Pep Comics 004, 1940)

the Fox:

Severely whipped and beaten by the Night Riders during his origin. (Blue Ribbon Comics 004, 1940)

Galahad: 

Takes a sword blow meant for King Arthur, and while all these bullet wounds and so forth can get a little abstracted, this is a real overhand chop that has to be threatening to hit his lung. Galahad only survives due to Merlin's magical intervention. (Top-Notch Comics 008, 1940)

the Green Falcon:

Takes an arrow to the left shoulder. (Blue Ribbon Comics 013, 1941)

the Shadow:

Shot in the left arm by Zevox, aka the Head. (Shadow Comics v1 004, 1940)

The Shadow's left arm can't get a break, as a few issues later it gets a throwing knife to the shoulder. (Shadow Comics v1 007, 1940)

the Spider:

I don't know the precise number of times the Spider is shot here while tanking bullets to scare a gang but it sure is enough to impress his doctor. (Crack Comics 007, 1940)

A year later, the Spider gets near-fatally shot in the chest by the Crow. (Crack Comics 018, 1941)

Whiz, King of Falcons: 

Silver Streak's animal companion Whiz is struck in the bird-shoulder by a machine gun round. (Silver Streak Comics 010, 1941)

REAL PERSON ROUND-UP 001

I have a lot of these in a spreadsheet somewhere but we'll get to those later. For now it's as we encounter them: real people and versions of real people and analogs of real people and also the same but famous fictional people in comics.

Admiral Dewey, John Paul Jones, Sir Francis Drake:

 Their ghosts all volunteer to help Sergeant Spook go pirate hunting (Blue Bolt v1 008, 1941)

Adolf Hitler: 

"Gustave Ritter" isn't really very close to "Adolf Hitler" but I have a finely hones sense for when someone is making a Hitler analog and this world-conquering barbarian from the year 2041 is just that. I think. (Blue Ribbon Comics 004, 1940)

Clark Gable:

As "Stark Brable" in Rang-a-Tang the Wonder Dog's trip to Hollywood (Blue Ribbon Comics 005, 1940)

Lana Turner:

It's a classic first letter switcheroo as actress Lana Turner shows up as "Tana Lurner" in a Rang-a-Tang the Wonder Dog comic. (Blue Ribbon Comics 005, 1940)

Maid Marion:

The "Green Falcon" feature, as far as I can tell, takes place in a Robin-Hood era England with no Robin Hood but with Lady Marion here occupying the Maid Marion role. (Blue Ribbon Comics 004, 1940)

Orson Welles:

"Nawson Swelles" is a troublesome "Boy Wonder" and the villain of Rang-a-Tang the Wonder Dog's visit to Hollywood. (Blue Ribbon Comics 005, 1940)

Prince John:

Essentially playing the same part as he does in the Robin Hood stories in the Green Falcon's adventures. (Blue Ribbon Comics 004, 1940)

Richard the Lionheart:

The key to Prince John's villainry is that the good king is off being a dipshit in the Holy Land and this version of Richard I does not fail in that. (Blue Ribbon Comics 004, 1940)

MINOR SUPER-HERO ROUND-UP 010

MORE MLJ ACTION

Doc Strong:

Doc Strong is a famous scientist living in the year 2041, in a world where WWII dragged on for an entire century and a new Mongol Horde has swept in and conquered the battered remnants of civilization. The strangely Doc Savage-like Doc Strong gathers a group of like-minded scientists and starts a new civilization called the Isle of Right from which to strike back at the invaders with such inventions as a ray gun that solidifies shadows. (Blue Ribbon Comics 004, 1940)

the Fox:

Paul Patton, photographer for the Daily Globe, gets the tar beaten out of him by some fellows called the Night Riders and comes up with a plan:

That's right, he's about halfway between Spider-Man and Batman. Okay, he's mostly Batman but his wearable camera scheme anticipates Perter Parker's epic work hack by about twenty years. The Fox's first attempt at a costume is a bit rough, but eventually...

... he adopts one of the top costumes of the Golden Age! His adventures may be a bit regular but he looks great doing it.

BONUS FOX FACT: his "bat flies through the window" moment comes when he hears a song on the radio. (Blue Ribbon Comics 004, 1940)

the Green Falcon: 

The Green Falcon feature is essentially a Robin Hood Elseworlds story in which Robin is a knight instead of a forest outlaw and his pals Tiny Tuck and Jolly Roundfellow kind of encapsulate a few Merry Men each. Prince John is still there, and Maid Marion, but there are more swordfights than arrow tricks. Hey, I never said it was a particularly compelling Elseworlds story. It is more high concept than you usually get in a Golden Age comic, though. (Blue Ribbon Comics 004-015, 1940-1941)

Ty-Gor:

Ty-Gor is MLJ's answer to Mowgli: a British child orphaned in the jungles of Malaysia and raised by tigers. Ty-Gor is a shortened form of his birth name, Tyrone Gorman, which he learns thanks to an absurd series of events pictured above.

I don't usually have a lot of time for jungle adventures but Ty-Gor does have a pretty fun twist in that after a half dozen issues he is brought to New York by explorer Dr Davis and his daughter Joan and Does Not Adapt. He's just a wild kid who knows about five word maximum thrust into the public school system and causing havoc. It's fun! (Blue Ribbon Comics 004, 1940)

BONUS TY-GOR AS A BABY EATING GRAPES