Russkie-Smashers BLACKHAWK "Red Raiders vs Blackhawks"

Why is it that Villains (Russkies Included) Always Have the Urge...

...to create one-to-one match-ups against heroic teams?

(Especially since, in this case, it's based on ethnicity instead of abilities/talents?)

Unlike similar teams, including Baron Strucker's Blitz Squad who battled Sgt Fury and His Howling Commandos several times, this ensemble from a never-reprinted story in Quality's Blackhawk #40 (1951), never returned for a rematch!

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Blackhawk

by William Rotsler

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Russkie-Smashers SENSATION COMICS "Dr Pat--Flight Surgeon!"

She cures the sick, catches criminals...

...and defeats Communists!

Is there nothing Dr Pat Windsor can't do...while looking really kool doing it?

Though Wonder Woman was the cover-featured heroine of Sensation Comics...

...it's obvious Dr Pat is the real "Wonder Woman' of the book, as this never-reprinted story from #100 (1950) by writer Robert Kanigher, penciler Carmine Infantino, and inker Frank Giacoia proves!

She outsmarts a high-ranking Communist officer and shoots down a fighter, while handling her flight surgeon duties!

BTW, the XB-49 "Flying Wing" was a real (albeit experimental) bomber tested during the late 1940s-early 1950s!

It's best-known to the public as the bomber seen in the 1953 movie War of the Worlds delivering an A-Bomb against the Martians!

(Actual flight footage of the ship, not a miniature, was used.)

Who says comics ain't educational?

Russkie-Smashers CAPTAIN AMERICA "Hour of Doom!"

Propaganda/Disinformation Presented by a Trusted Source...

...was a popular with the Russkies in the 1950s as it is with MAGA today!

Luckily, back then we had a Captain America & Bucky to expose it!

This final appearance of the Cap & Bucky of the 1950s (until Marvel's Captain America #153 [1972] as detailed HERE), written by Don Rico and illustrated by John Romita Sr,  appeared as the last story in Atlas' Captain America #78 (1954), ending his part of the short-lived revival of Timely Comics' "Big Three" (Cap, Human Torch, and Sub-Mariner)

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Decades

Marvel in the '50s

Captain America Strikes!

(Which reprints this story)

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Russkie-Smashers MAN COMICS "Bob Brant & the Trouble-Shooters! in 'Rocket to the Moon!/Out of this World!' "

There are Russkies Everywhere...

...in every country, under the sea, and the sky above...including the Moon!

Note: May be NSFW due to portrayal of Australian Aborigines, though it's not any worse than the standard depiction of Native Americans in similar stories of the era.

So, the All-American teenagers defeat Russkies and claim the Moon for the good 'ol USA in this never-reprinted tale illustrated by Carl Hubbell from Atlas' Man Comics #27 (1953)!

It's a pity the magazine only ran for one more issue after this!

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Newsboy Legion

Volume 1

by

Joe Simon & Jack Kirby

The First Kid Gang in Comic Books!

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Russkie-Smashers THE FLAME "BattleFront: Main Street"

Though He Was a Revival of This Golden Age Character...

...the 1950s reincarnation took only the character's nom-du-guerre, not the original's secret identity, nor his incredibly-lethal weaponry.

(This new version was Comics Code-approved!)

He was also saddled with a wife who had no idea about what he did in his spare time!

Like Samson, Wonder Boy, Black Cobra, and several other Golden Age characters who were licensed to Ajax-Farrell by the Iger Comics Studio (who wrote and illustrated the original 1940s stories), The Flame was revamped from his previous version to be more kid-friendly/less violent due to the backlash the entire comics business was experiencing from the sordid "Seduction of the Innocent" mania gripping the country by those who blamed comic books on the then-current juvenile crime wave sweeping the nation!
Like the other super-characters, The Flame's revival flamed out after only three issues of crime and Russkie-crushing!

Russkie-Smashers PLASTIC MAN "Red Wreckers of Rangistan!"

With One of the Most Alliterative Titles I've Ever Seen in Comics...

...this never-reprinted Russkie-Smashing tale is one of the weirdest Plastic Man stories you'll ever see...and that's saying something!

Written by Joe Millard and illustrated by Paul Gustavson, this feature from Quality's Plastic Man #41 (1953) was part of an editorial change from the goofy Golden Age to an era which saw the character become "grim and gritty" battling Communists, aliens, and monsters of various types from dinosaurs and giant ants to zombies!

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Plastic Man 80-Page Giant

Featuring classic tales from each of his eras (Golden Age/Silver Age/Bronze Age)

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