Nazi-Punchers STORMY FOSTER: THE GREAT DEFENDER "Castle of Kinga Korman"

Though He Primarily-Fought Japanese Spies and Saboteurs...

...West Coast-based "superhero on a budget" The Great Defender took on anyone who tried to interfere with America's homefront wartime efforts!

Shy timid drug store clerk Stormy Foster would don an outfit of t-shirt, gym shorts, track shoes and cape made out of a tablecloth, replace his glasses with a fake mustache, take a super-vitamin pill that gave him super-strength, speed, and limited invulnerability and jump into battle, as you'll now see...

You'll note that drug store delivery boy Ah Choo doesn't recognize co-worker Stormy as The Great Defender.

Either the "replace glasses with mustache" disguise is better than I thought or the writers of this never-reprinted story illustrated by Max Elkan from Quality's Hit Comics #21 (1942) just didn't care.
Stormy's strip ran in Hit Comics from 18 to 34 (1944).
He fought Nazis several more times before the series ended.
He's never been reprinted or revived in new material since!

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Nazi-Punchers LIBERTY SCOUTS "The Sentinel: Who He Is and How He Came to Be!"

One of the Weirder Patriotic Nazi-Punching Characters of the Golden Age is This Guy...

...created from whole cloth by the Spirit of America herself!

This never-reprinted, pre-Pearl Harbor tale from Centaur's Liberty Scouts #3 (1941), illustrated by George Wilson, was one of many showing Americans were clearly worried about the Axis pulling us into the already-ongoing World War II.

A number of these new patriotic defenders of the USA were typical American citizens either possessed by, or given powers by, mystic entities embodying some aspect of America.
But this being (and Uncle Sam, who apparently was "The American Spirit" in physical form) were created out of thin air, without a human intermediary.
Unlike Uncle Sam, who's had a long existence in comics, from the Golden Age to the present via Quality Comics & DC Comics, The Sentinel made only three appearances before being drawn back into the ether!
Even when other characters from the Centaur Comics line like The Arrow, Man of War, and even The Ferret, were revived by Malibu Comics in the late 1980s, The Sentinel was nowhere to be found!
Note: the George Wilson who illustrated this comic story is not painter George Wilson who did hundreds of cover paintings for Dell and Gold Key comics as well as paperbacks featuring sci-fi/fantasy and super-heroes from the 1950s to the 1980s!
George Homer Wilson started out as a pulp magazine illustrator doing both cover paintings and pen and ink interior illustrations before adding comic books to his already-busy schedule from 1940 thru 1942!

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Russkie Smashers SOUTH SEA GIRL "Echoes of an A-Bomb"

Because Winter Has Returned in a Big Way...

...we're going to look at the tropical adventures of a sarong-clad heroine battling atom bomb-wielding Russkies in an airship!

This tale from Leader's Seven Seas Comics #6 (1947) was scripted by Manning Lee Stokes with art by legendary "good-girl" artist Matt Baker, who also illustrated most of the legendary Fox Comics Phantom Lady series (which we ran HERE).
Stokes was a pulp/paperback writer specializing in mystery and action.
His only comic book work was for various strips in Seven Seas Comics.
This strip ran for all six issues of Seven Seas Comics and some of the stories have been reprinted, usually renaming the heroine or changing the story title.
When it was reprinted in the 1950s, the heroine's name was changed to "Vooda", and her bare midriff was covered both on the new cover art and the modified story pages...

When it was reprinted in the 1960s, she was once more "Alani" and her tummy was uncovered (in the interior pages)...

...but not on the new cover art by Ross Andru and Mike Esposito!

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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!

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!