Nazi-Punchers CAPTAIN SCIENCE "Traitors to the Earth!"

It was only his second story, and already Captain Science had his hands full...

...any way you look at it, it's a helluva way to begin your career!

Cap destroyed a threat by other humans (including Adolf Hitler) using alien tech and picked up a hot babe in the process!

Not bad for the second gig in his career!
Note, though it's only mentioned in a caption, it takes Gordon Dane months to prepare for his new career (though it's never explained how a guy on a teacher's salary can afford to cobble together the equipment he needs)...

The art on this never-reprinted story from Youthful's Captain Science #1 (1950)  is by Gustav Schrotter.
The writer is unknown.

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Russkie Smashers BOBBY BENSON'S B-BAR-B RIDERS "Lemonade Kid in 'Invisible Death!' "

Spurs Jackson wasn't the only present-day cowboy to fight Russkies...

...or Russkies in fake flying saucers!

Tex Mason and Harka were supporting characters in the Mutual Network's Bobby Benson's B-Bar-B Riders radio show, which this comic series was based on!
Mason was the B-Bar-B Ranch foreman and Harka was one of the ranch hands.
However, the comic expanded the characters' roles making them undercover FBI special agents, which their employer, Bobby Benson, was unaware of!
Note: As you might expect, Bobby didn't recognize The Lemonade Kid as Tex when he ran into him whenever he was in costume!
This particular story from Magazine Enterprises' Bobby Benson's B-Bar-B Riders #3 (1950) was illustrated by Bob Powell and likely written by Gardner Fox.
Powell had quite a bit of experience with flying saucers in 1950, illustrating them in a one-shot comic about a hotshot test pilot finding an alien ship in Vic Torry and His Flying Saucer, as well as a story featuring the pulp/radio character The Shadow encountering REAL aliens in flying saucers!

Nazi-Punchers HIT COMICS "Ghost of Flanders in 'SpyMaster Sheink Steals the Secret Scouting Plane!' "

He's the Comic Character James Gunn Rescued From Obscurity in the Recent Superman Movie...

...and he's doing what he did best, kicking Nazi asses on the Home Front!






And, that's it!

No "The End" or epilogue.

Another story began on the very next page in the comic!

That's just how things rolled in the Golden Age.
Written and illustrated by George Brenner using the "Wayne Reid" house pseudonym, this never-reprinted tale from Quality Comics' Hit Comics #19 (1942) is straightforward about the concept that spies and saboteurs didn't deserve the niceties of the Geneva Convention!
And, though they didn't show it, it's implied the stolen scoutcraft was recovered.

Ghost of Flanders Will Return!

Russkie Smashers SUB-MARINER "Unseen Scourge of the Sea"

Artist Bob Powell Illustrated Two Prince Namor Stories...

...during the 1950s revival of the Timely's Top Trio (Captain America, The Human Torch, and the Sub-Mariner)!

However, despite having done several Subby stories during the Golden Age, Powell's renderings here lack something...

Figure out what's wrong with Bob Powell's version of Namor from Atlas' Mens' Adventures #27 (1954)?

He's totally-missing his ankle wings!

And his ears appear to have been "bobbed" from their usual elfen points!

Why?

I'm not sure.

There are rumors from the period of a potential live-action TV series, and doing both the ankle wings and the ears on a weekly basis (especially with a character who spends a lot of time in the water) was problematic considering the limited makeup SFX available at the time.

At any rate, only Powell's two stories from the period have this quirky "look"!

Third Reich Terrors CHALLENGER COMICS "Golem" (Who He Is and How He Came to Be!)

Our Final Third Reich Terror  Starts out As a Nazi-Punching Tale...

...then becomes the telling of a legend,,,and a parable!

Written by Robert Bernstein and illustrated by Joe Kubert, this story from Interfaith Publications' Challenger #3 (1946) adapting the legend of the Golem of Prague was apparently created during WWII, but didn't see publication until after the war ended!

Next Monday: The Return of Russkie Smashers!

Third Reich Terrors BLUE RIBBON COMICS "Mr Justice in 'Waltz of the Vampire' "

This is actually a "two-fer", since the real (not  fake) Nazi-created vampire in this story...

...is also a werewolf!

Written by Joe Blair & illustrated by Sam Cooper, this never-reprinted tale from MLJ's Blue Ribbon Comics V1N11 (1941) was created and published in early 1941, before the USA entered World War II.

But, America's viewpoint about who the "good guys" were was obvious!

(For the record, I've never seen an American pro-Nazi comic book story, pre-war, during the war, or post-war!)

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