Heroes vs Dinosaurs CAPTAIN FLASH "Beasts from 1,000,000 BC"

When America's Uranium Supply is Threatened...

...patriotic Captain Flash & Ricky investigate, expecting to find Russkie saboteurs, but not labor management problems...and dinosaurs!
Note: May be NSFW, using stereotypes of natives common to the era, but no more offensive than the portrayal of Tonto in the Lone Ranger.

Penciled (and possibly inked) by Mike Sekowsky, the cover-featured story from Sterling's Captain Flash #3 (1955) really pulls disparate elements out of the hat in a jam-packed six pages!

You may well ask:

Who the heck is Captain Flash???

Right before The Flash was revived in DC's Showcase #4, there were several short-lived attempts to bring back super-heroes, who had all but disappeared by 1949, replaced by horror, western, and romance comics.
One of the better characters debuted in 1954...
Mild-mannered professor Keith Spencer lived in "Atom City" (an obvious surrogate for Los Alamos), somewhere in the SouthWest USA.

Spencer was also Captain Flash, who could set off a "miniature atomic explosion" inside his body by clapping his hands, which made him super-strong, super-fast, and near-invulnerable for brief periods.

Like most heroes, he had a teen sidekick, Ricky Davis, who, like Bucky (Captain America's partner) and Tim (Black Terror's aide) didn't have a secret identity and was referred to as "Ricky" in and out of costume.
As Captain Flash, most of Spencer's time was taken up either dealing with Communist spies trying to steal atomic technology or disasters created when the technology went awry...which happened with alarming frequency!
Art was by veteran Mike Sekowsky, who later became one of Silver Age's most prolific pencilers, working on numerous titles including Justice League of America, T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents, and Metal Men,

The series only ran four issues before the publisher, Sterling Comics, went bankrupt in 1955.
Ironically, Captain Flash was the company's best-selling title, showing that superheroes were potentially-viable again!

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Heroes vs Dinosaurs BLACKHAWK "Time-Monsters!"

He Fights Nazis!
He Fights Russkies  (and other Commies)!
And...He Fights Dinosaurs!

He's Blackhawk...and you don't mess with him...or his crew!

Hard to believe this cover-featured tale from DC's Blackhawk #143 (1959) has never been reprinted in some TPB/hardcover collection or another!
But the Dick Dillin/Chuck Cuidera-illustrated story, as they phased our of their post-World War II Commie-smashing period into a "scientific crime-fighting adventurers" era, is a fun piece of science fiction/fantasy.
The only regrettable part is that the scripter is unknown.

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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 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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