Heroes vs Dinosaurs CAPTAIN FLASH "Beasts from 1,000,000 BC"

When America's Uranium Supply is Threatened...

...patriotic Captain Flash & Ricky investigate, expecting to find Russkie saboteurs, but not labor management problems...and dinosaurs!
Note: May be NSFW, using stereotypes of natives common to the era, but no more offensive than the portrayal of Tonto in the Lone Ranger.

Penciled (and possibly inked) by Mike Sekowsky, the cover-featured story from Sterling's Captain Flash #3 (1955) really pulls disparate elements out of the hat in a jam-packed six pages!

You may well ask:

Who the heck is Captain Flash???

Right before The Flash was revived in DC's Showcase #4, there were several short-lived attempts to bring back super-heroes, who had all but disappeared by 1949, replaced by horror, western, and romance comics.
One of the better characters debuted in 1954...
Mild-mannered professor Keith Spencer lived in "Atom City" (an obvious surrogate for Los Alamos), somewhere in the SouthWest USA.

Spencer was also Captain Flash, who could set off a "miniature atomic explosion" inside his body by clapping his hands, which made him super-strong, super-fast, and near-invulnerable for brief periods.

Like most heroes, he had a teen sidekick, Ricky Davis, who, like Bucky (Captain America's partner) and Tim (Black Terror's aide) didn't have a secret identity and was referred to as "Ricky" in and out of costume.
As Captain Flash, most of Spencer's time was taken up either dealing with Communist spies trying to steal atomic technology or disasters created when the technology went awry...which happened with alarming frequency!
Art was by veteran Mike Sekowsky, who later became one of Silver Age's most prolific pencilers, working on numerous titles including Justice League of America, T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents, and Metal Men,

The series only ran four issues before the publisher, Sterling Comics, went bankrupt in 1955.
Ironically, Captain Flash was the company's best-selling title, showing that superheroes were potentially-viable again!

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Heroes vs Dinosaurs BLACKHAWK "Time-Monsters!"

He Fights Nazis!
He Fights Russkies  (and other Commies)!
And...He Fights Dinosaurs!

He's Blackhawk...and you don't mess with him...or his crew!

Hard to believe this cover-featured tale from DC's Blackhawk #143 (1959) has never been reprinted in some TPB/hardcover collection or another!
But the Dick Dillin/Chuck Cuidera-illustrated story, as they phased our of their post-World War II Commie-smashing period into a "scientific crime-fighting adventurers" era, is a fun piece of science fiction/fantasy.
The only regrettable part is that the scripter is unknown.

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Russkie-Smashers BLACKHAWK "Jet Menace!"

Behind This Rather Kool Dick Dillin/Chuck Cuidera Cover...

...(never-reprinted, BTW) lurks a tale (also never-reprinted )of Russkie sabotage and treachery!

Scripted by Robert Bernstein and penciled by Dick Dillin, and inked by Chuck Cuidera, the cover-featured story from Quality's Blackhawk #104 (1956) brings up an interesting,but obviously false, concept: if you have to bail out of a supersonic jet, you're incapable of flying one ever again!
If that was the case, Hal (Green Lantern) Jordan and literally all the Blackhawks would've been grounded pretty early in their jet-age careers!
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You'll see both well-known characters (and a couple of obscure ones) go up against various not-quite extinct giant lizards in hand-to-claw combat!

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Nazi-Punchers YANKEE COMICS "Scarlet Sentry in 'Origin' "

He's An All-American Guy...Who Donned a Canadian Uniform to Punch Nazis!

(To be fair, it was bulletproof!)

It's amazing what you could get by mail-order, even in 1941!

The Scarlet Sentry's never-reprinted premiere, illustrated by Charles Sultan, appeared in Red Seal's Yankee Comics #1 (1941), which was published before America entered World War II due to the Axis attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Interestingly, over half the characters introduced in this issue dealt with obvious or implicit German military personnel, spies, or saboteurs!
Most comic (and pulp magazine) publishers realized war was coming, they juest weren't sure when!
After the invasion of Poland in 1939, they started stacking their character lineups with patriotic heroes and heroines ready to "do their bit" for America!

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Russkie-Smashers CAPTAIN AMERICA "You Die at Midnight!"

If You Liked Captain America & Bucky Punching Nazis...

...as they did for the past couple of weeks HERE & HERE, you'll love them Smashing Russkies!

This Commie-clobbering lead tale from Atlas' Captain America #77 (1954) was scripted by Don Rico and illustrated (with a splash page assist from Carl Burgos) by John Romita Sr!

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