Showing posts with label Jim Mooney. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jim Mooney. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 14, 2025

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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Monday, October 13, 2025

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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Thursday, October 17, 2019

WEREWOLF HUNTER "Tentacle Terror from Beelzebub's Void!!!"

Now is that a catchy/kitchy title, or what?
For a guy called "Werewolf Hunter", Prof Broussard doesn't spend much time actually hunting werewolves!
This never-reprinted tale from Fiction House's Ranger Comics #13 (1943) takes Broussard even further afield thanks to future Supergirl artist Jim Mooney, though the writer using the pen-name "Armand Weygand" remains unknown!
But the biggest change will occur next week as an artist who escaped real-life horror takes over the strip!
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Thursday, October 10, 2019

WEREWOLF HUNTER "Dungeon Dweller of Horror House"

Professor Broussard didn't hunt only werewolves...
...but anything otherworldly that threatened mankind!
We've skipped ahead several issues to show how the series evolved into the Professor going after anything paranormal!
You'll note a new aspect added...volume numbers indicating the stories are from Broussard's journals.
Note the volume numbers don't actually match the number of stories presented!
This tale is "Volume VI", yet it's the fifth tale in the series!
Was an earlier story scrapped?
We'll never know!
This never-reprinted tale from Fiction House's Ranger Comics #12 (1943) presents the change of concept along with a new art team, penciler Saul Rosen and inker Jim Mooney, though the writer using the pen-name "Armand Weygand" remains unknown!
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