DIVINE ROUND-UP 017

You'll never believe it: more gods. 

the Serpent Gods: 

While pursuing crook Rango in the African jungle, Yarko the Great comes across a couple being sacrificed to the Serpent Gods by being flung into a pit of sacred serpents. But are the serpents the Serpent Gods themselves? There is no further context given, so we must assume that they are.

God style: Animist (Wonderworld Comics 015, 1940) 

Gorm: 

Gorm is the god of the villainous Hatchet Cult, a gang that the Flash encounters early in his career, but since the Hatchet Cult is made up of white gangsters surgically made to look Chinese in order to throw the authorities off of their trail, one must assume that Gorm is just another part of the ruse (though for who's benefit these guys are praying is a mystery to me).

God Style: Idol (Flash Comics v1 022, 1941) 

the Great God Orrab: 

The Great God Orrab is yet another idol to which Our Heroes are almost sacrificed, ho hum. The interesting thing about this particular god, however, is that the hero in question is Blaze Barton, which placed Orrab in the year 50033 CE or thereabouts, and makes it very possible that his worshippers are in fact post-apocalyptic remnants worshipping the equivalent of a McDonaldland statue.

God Style: Idol (Hit Comics 009, 1941)

Hu, the Horse God: 

Adventurer Lance Larkin and a lady named Marsha are looking for the "Land of the Flying Dragons" in Siberia, and wouldn't you know it, they find it! And there are flying dragons (well, "pterodactyls") there! There are also caveman-style Ape-Men riding the dragons, who swiftly capture Lance and Marsha and take them to be sacrificed at the altar of Hu, the Horse God. It is only the arrival of Lance's loyal steed Satan, taken to be an earthly avatar of Hu, that saves the two.

So just why do a bunch of cavemen who ride flying reptiles and have never seen a horse in their lives have a horse as their god? Because hundreds of thousands of years ago when they came to this prehistoric enclave they had horses and those horses saved them from disaster somehow. This inspired the reverence, but didn't stop the horses from eventually dying out, which then inspired the taming of the "pterodactyls".

God-Style: Idol (More Fun Comics 067, 1941) 

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 391: THE SEA KHAN

(More Fun Comics 068, 1941)

Yes, the Sea Khan is just a pirate, but he's a very successful one, with fifteen years of piracy on his cv, a whole fleet of his own, a super great name and even a nemesis who blames the Khan for the death of his family. No points if you guess that the Sea Khan's daughter Sului is actually the guy's daughter raised to be a pirate.

Though the Sea Khan ends up being shot down by the US Navy, we can all remember him not only as a ruthless pirate but one confident enough to fly his own custom pirate flag. 

His death hour has struck.

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 380: THE ASSASSINS

(More Fun Comics 065, 1941)

It's another version of a revival of the Assassins! These Assassins are very into the accuracy of it all and have their own Alamut HQ and their own top guy named Hassan (presumably followed by Ibn Sabbah but it's never said in full). Commitment to the bit is not quite enough to save them once second-rate Lawrence of Arabia Lance Larkin gets on the case, however.

This group were based out of Iran, unlike the Order of Assassins or the Society of Assassins, our previous claimants to the title of The Order of Assassins, Returned, For Real. Of the three, these latest guys are the least assassin-y - they operate a bit more like your standard comic book desert bandits.