Friday, August 31, 2018

MONSTER SOCIETY OF EVIL "Chapter XX: Mr Mind's Book"

...ah, the days when people actually read words on a page, rather than glance at a screen!
(I'll have more to say about this below...)
Of course, these days, all Mr Mind would have to do is post an e-book or pdf on the web with a link on a conspiracy site...
Note, we have the secret code...
...from the back of the Captain Marvel Club Membership Card (shown here)!
And, no, we're not going to translate it for you!
It's interesting to note the power print media once had.
Even comic strips had the ability to generate public controversy, as this (only slightly) exaggerated comic story demonstrates!
While I enjoy posting long-lost material like this for an audience that has never seen it before, I'd much rather be an actual print publisher to put this material back in the same format it was created for.
There's something visceral about holding a printed book or comic in your hand that electronic media can't duplicate.
But it is expensive.
Well, there's always PowerBall and Mega Millions...
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Thursday, August 30, 2018

MONSTER SOCIETY OF EVIL "Chapter XIX: The Black Death Ray"

...actually, this was the cover for the previous issue of Fawcett's Captain Marvel Adventures (#39), but since it portrays that chapter's finale and and this chapter's opening, we thought it would be more appropriate here!
Lucky for you, we have the code...
...on the back of the Captain Marvel Club Membership Card (shown here)!
(And, no, we're not going to translate it for you!)
For once, the hero has information the villain doesn't, but his survival depends on his non-superpowered alter-ego's reflexes and timing...
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Wednesday, August 29, 2018

MONSTER SOCIETY OF EVIL "Chapter XVIII: Peril Behind the Camera"

Oh, woe!
Oh, despair!
Can it be true?
Is Billy Batson dead?
Read on...and have faith!
Lucky for you, we have the code...
...on the back of the Captain Marvel Club Membership Card (shown here)!
Writer Otto Binder and artists CC Beck & Pete Costanza are certainly getting into the spirit of 1940s movie serials, as the cover for this issue...
...demonstrates!
Note: Since the cover portrays the cliffhanger at the end of the chapter, we didn't run it at the head of the post!
But it will be at the head of tommorow's post when...
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Tuesday, August 28, 2018

MONSTER SOCIETY OF EVIL "Chapter XVII: Mr Mind's Movie Madness"

Who says comic books aren't educational?
Not me!
Lucky for you, we have the code...
...on the back of the Captain Marvel Club Membership Card (shown here)!
With the success of Republic's Adventures of Captain Marvel serial, Otto Binder took the idea of a Captain Marvel B-feature film (nobody in the 1940s would've dreamed of doing a Wizard of Oz-level flick based on a comic book), and ran wild with it, as you'll see when...
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Monday, August 27, 2018

MONSTER SOCIETY OF EVIL "Chapter XVI: Earth Must Die"

...ah, there's nothing like British reserve!
Stiff upper lip and all that rot, eh?
Lucky for you, we have the code...
...on the back of the Captain Marvel Club Membership Card (shown here)!
Writer Otto Binder tossed off interesting concepts like the "Sub-Americans" and  Jeepers' near-extinct species as mere filler while advancing the main plot!
Today's writers would do entire issues about them, believing themselves extremely clever for having xome up with them!
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