Russkie-Smashers PRIMUS "Saboteur"

Before "detente" occured in the mid-1970s...

...the Russkies were reliable baddies in fiction, as this never-reprinted comics tale, derived from a short-lived TV series in 1971-72, demonstrates!

Written by Joe Gill and illustrated by Joe Staton, this tale from Charlton's Primus #7 (1972) was one of two tales in the same issue with Russkies as the bad guys!

(The other story involved a plan to have an impersonator replace President Nixon!)

The syndicated TV series detailed the adventures of Carter Primus (Robert Brown), scuba-diving scientist-adventurer dealing with everything from eco-terrorists to drug-runners to Russkie spies!

Because it ran during the Family Hour (7-8pm) it was limited as to how much violence it could show.

As a result, it wasn't even as action-packed as it's 1960s predecessor Sea Hunt, starring Lloyd Bridges!

So, unlike Sea Hunt, which ran for 155 episodes, Primus sank without a trace after only 26 shows.

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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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Comic Book Artist #16

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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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Russkie-Smashers DETECTIVE COMICS Robin the Teen Wonder "Strike...While the Campus is Hot" & "Drop Out...or Drop Dead!"

Last Week, Robin the Boy Wonder Captured the Nazi Crew of a U-Boat Single-Handed

This Week, Robin the Teen Wonder goes after young adult "rebels" working for Russkies!

This was Part One of a two-part tale by writer Frank Robbins, penciler Gil Kane and inker Murphy Anderson from DC's Detective Comics #394 (1969)!

Normally, we'd wait a week to run Part Two (by the same creative team) from DC's Detective Comics #395 (1970), but we still haven't established the Kremlin connection yet!

So here's the conclusion...and look for the Russkie tie-in...

And here's the Russkie reveal...

And that was how non-urgent crime-fighter communications worked in the pre-internet days!

No emails!

No texts!

Just snail mail!

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80 Years of The Boy Wonder

The Deluxe Edition

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