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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Russkie-Smashing with AI! JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY / WHERE MONSTERS DWELL "Ruler of Earth!"

Despite the ominous-sounding title (and word balloon)...

...the Artificial Intelligence in this tale is benevolent...until Russkies enter the picture!
(Yeah, Russkies ruin everything!)

So, let's travel to the "future" year of 1990...as seen from 1962...

Appearing as the cover-featured story in one of the final pre-Mighty Thor issues of Atlas' Journey into Mystery (#82 in 1962), this story by plotter/editor Stan Lee, writer Larry Leiber, penciler Jack Kirby, and inker Dick Ayers is a clear Cold War/anti-Communist parable!

But, when the tale was reprinted at the end of the Cold War in Marvel's Where Monsters Dwell #25 (1973)...

...editor Roy Thomas had the hammer and sickle and red star insignias removed from the Russkies' hats...

...and replaced with an "H", which was explained with the change in the dialogue balloon above!
HYDRA???
Why not AIM...who were always more tech-oriented?
So, presumably, there are at least two worlds in the Marvel Multiverse where ROE presides, to this day, over a peaceful Earth!
Bonus for putting up with this all this fanboy mishigas...the lovingly-detailed original art for the spash page by Jack Kirby and Dick Ayers!

BTW, did you note how warm, cuddly, and almost teddy-bear-like the cover's ROE is, compared to the version in the story itself?

Russkie-Smashers LIBERTY BELLE "Freedom's Star"

The Russkies continued to be a threat into the 1970s and early 1980s...

...as this never-reprinted tale from Charlton's E-Man V1N5 (1974) so aptly demonstrates!

Apparently, the audience interest wasn't there, since the concluding chapter never appeared!.

Note: I, in fact, did write in, but I may have well been the only one!
The script, besides dealing with Commies, also goes into Women's Lib, which was in its' heyday.

The character has reappeared recently, without any mention of what happened on the space station!

And, before you ask, the Golden Age DC character, also named Liberty Belle, hadn't appeared since 1947, except in a 1972 reprint, so the name/trademark was available at the time.

DC's character would reappear in new stories in 1981 and her daughter, also called Liberty Belle, would debut in 2006, sometimes working alongside her mother!
Both still appear in DC books to this day.

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Countdown to Halloween 2023 AVENGERS "Night of the Collector" Conclusion

We Have Already Seen...

...The Mighty Avengers, exhausted from the epic "Avengers/Defenders War", answer a psychic summons of danger at the Rutland Halloween Parade.

While half the team falls prey to The Collector (disguised as the parade's founder/host Tom Fagan), the other half of the group is exploring the hamlet, looking for clues...

Loki eventually got his marbles (well, most of them) back and continues to bedevil the Marvel Multiverse to this day.

Who is...

...and What Part Does He Play in Our Final Rutland Halloween Parade Tale?
Find out on Monday as We Explore Another Corner of the Multiverse!
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