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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Third Reich Terrors SCORPION "Night of the Golden Fuhrer" (featuring The Golem) Conclusion

We Have Already Seen...

Newspaper publisher David Harper (aka the costumed adventurer known as The Scorpion) is told by his star reporter, Sara Akibah, that her father (a noted rabbi) has been kidnapped by masked figures dressed like Nazi soldiers!

She refused to call in the police, hoping her influential boss could bring in heavy-hitters like the FBI!

Harper tells her he can't do that without any evidence to show to law-enforcement.

Sara leaves, disgusted, but not before Harper plants a tracker in her purse, which proves to be a great idea when the Nazis return and grab her, since her dad refused to serve the latter-day fascists by raising their leaders from the dead!

Presented with the choice of reviving the Nazis or watching his daughter die, the Rabbi agrees to bring someone back to life...but not the dead Germans!

The clergyman from Prague performs the ritual to revive...The Golem, as he did during World War II!

Harper, as The Scorpion, encounters the creature as it emerges from the basement of Sara's house, where his tracker had gone dead!

The monster doesn't attack him...

Even if you were standing outside the newsstand/candy store all day waiting for the 4th issue of The Scorpion on June 1st, you wouldn't find it...since it was never published!

Note that while the neo-Nazis believed Rabbi Akibah could raise the dead, there aren't any stories I could find that gave a religious figure (besides Jesus Christ) the ability to do that!

The Golem, OTOH...

Next Week: A Nazi Vampire...a Real  One!

Not  a Fake Like the Nazi "Werewolf" We Presented a Week Ago!

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Third Reich Terrors SCORPION "Night of the Golden Fuhrer" (featuring The Golem) Part 1

The Last Time We Saw This Guy...
...he was battling zombies in the 1930s!
But things changed a lot in only two months...

And We'll Be Continuing on That  Track...Tomorrow!

The "updating" of Atlas/Seaboard's character The Scorpion in #3 (1975) was scripted by Gabriel Levy, penciled by Jim Craig, and inked by Jim Mooney.

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