Showing posts with label Green Gloves. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Green Gloves. Show all posts

Saturday, November 25, 2023

FASCIST GOON CLEARING HOUSE 003

More goons. Fascist goons? Yes.


The Anti-American Party operated in the South American country of Santa Palos, home of the Red Gaucho, and got up to a lot of malarky at a fancy dress ball. Crucially, they disguised one of their agents as the Red Gaucho, leading to a lot of mixups between the agent, the Gaucho and a clueless dope who also came dressed as the hero (Nickel Comics 006, 1940)


The Black Guard, agents of the Germany-analog country of Nordicha operating in neighbouring oil-rich country Ruina and foiled by Secret Agent X-5 (later G-5) (Hit Comics 002, 1940)


Now that I'm revisiting them I reckon that the Green Gloves should have been a regular entry but it's too late now. In contrast to all of the other fascist groups represented here so far, the Green Gloves are devoted to a guy amazingly named Glover Green with no allegiance to any foreign power. Green seems to be your garden variety megalomaniac with a real glove fixation, down to traitors to the group getting a green glove brand on their foreheads (Detective Comics v1 045, 1940)


The Nastonian-American Society is just another German-American Bund analog (Adventure Comics 051, 1940)

CATALOGUE OF WOUNDS 003

It's a dangerous ol' job, heroing. Green Lantern : While tied up in a burning house, Green Lantern must thrust his hands into the fl...