Russkie-Smashers WONDER BOY "Two-Legged Termite Maneuvers!"

After Too Long a Pause, We Return to the Adventures of Wonder Boy...

...as he continues his crusade against Commie spies and saboteurs!

BTW, this cover-featured and never-reprinted tale from Ajax/Farrell's Wonder Boy #18 (1955) may be a re-working of a previously-published comic story, which the Eisner/Iger Studio (later just Iger Studio after Will Eisner founded his own studio) was notorious for, as shown HERE, where a story written and drawn for one character was modified/updated for a totally-different character!

Or, it may be a totally-new tale.

We're not yet certain.

Nazi-Punchers GREEN HORNET COMICS "Sensational Case of the Great Milk Hoax"

What do a Nazi Submarine, a Dairy Farm, Gasoline, The Green Hornet, and Wartime Rationing Have in Common?

If we told you, there would be no need for you to read this never-reprinted tale from Harvey's Green Hornet Comics #16 (1944)!

Sadly, both the writer and artist of the story are unknown.
Plus, with the complexity of the storyline, it's conceivable the plot was conceived and used as a radio show script, then adapted into comics form!

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Heroes vs Dinosaurs DOC SAVAGE "Blind Flight"

 Last Week We Presented the Man of Steel  vs Dinosaurs...

...now we conclude our month-long look at superheroes battling dinosaurs with a never-reprinted tale of his direct predecessor, the Man of Bronze!

Packaged by the Bob Powell Studios, with Powell himself penciling (and likely writing), this story from S&S's Shadow Comics V9N1 #97 (1949) was part of the final year of comics and pulp publishing from Street & Smith, who ended their hero line later in the year.
(S&S did keep Astounding Science Fiction going into the 1960s by converting to digest format, then changed the title to Analog Science Fiction.)

Next Week: Back To Russkie Smashing and Nazi Punching!

Heroes vs Dinosaurs SUPERMAN "Hunters' Club!"

The Man of Steel  has Faced Numerous Dinosaurs in His Long Career...

...but none under the circumstances in this story from DC's Superman #50 (1948)!

It's amazing how casual most of the characters are about a living dinosaur in this story written by Edmond Hamilton, penciled by Win Mortimer, and inked by Stan Kaye!

Also that Superman leans towards non-violent ways to handle the situation and avoid killing the various creatures!

BTW, it's only been reprinted once...

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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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