Third Reich Terrors MONSTERS ATTACK! "Return of the Golem!"

Last Halloween, We Presented Commie-Clobbering Kaiju!

This Halloween, we're showing you MONSTERS...some serving Adolf's boys and some killing Nazis!

Written by Mort Todd and illustrated by John Severin, this never-reprinted story from Globe Communications' Monsters Attack! #1 (1989) is a fitting opener to our month-long look at "Third Reich Terrors"!
The concept of the Golem dates back over 2,000 years to references in the Judeo-Christian Old Testament.
The Golem we know today as a supernatural defender of oppressed Jews originated in the story of "The Golem of Prague" in the late 1500s.
You can read about it HERE.
That version has become widely-popularized in media including movies/TV/radio, numerous prose novellas and novels and even comic books!
(Both DC and Marvel have ongoing Golem characters!).
One of the more popular iterations in recent times has been a Nazi-fighting statue like the one in this tale.
In fact, it's so popular, we're running three different stories about it!
The one you've just read, a Bronze Age one involving (then-present day) second-generation Nazis and a Hitler clone, and a Golden Age tale rendered by a talented up-and-comer named Kubert!
Wonder whatever happened to that guy...
Plus, we'll have werewolves, vampires, and even the Frankenstein Monster putting in appearances!

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Nazi-Punchers DEADPOOL/BATMAN "The Gun & the Sword"

Normally We Don't Post About an Upcoming Comic...

...but this one presents a unique example of cross-company Nazi-punching not seen in over a quarter-century!

Not since 1996's Batman/Captain America, almost 30 years ago, have characters from the Big Two joined forces against Nazis!
And not just any Nazis...

...but Adolf himself!

The tale by writer Chip Zdarsky and artist Terry Dodson, "The Gun & the Sword", is a secondary story in Marvel/DC's Deadpool/Batman, on-sale in your LCS this Wednesday!
Note: the cover at the head of this post is one of the limited-edition alternate covers.
The primary cover is below...

Weird notes: the alternate cover shows Captain America in a comics-accurate costume, and Wonder Woman in a movie-accurate costume!
But the story shows Cap in a movie-accurate uniform and Wonder Woman in a comics-accurate ensemble!
Was this deliberate?
If so, why?
And Cap is left-handed?

He's always been shown as right-handed, not a southpaw!

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Nazi-Punchers STAR-SPANGLED COMICS "Robin the Boy Wonder in 'Robin Crusoe!' "

 Holy Heil Hitler!

Robin the Boy Wonder versus an entire German U-boat crew?

They don't stand a chance!

This tale from DC's Star-Spangled Comics #72 (1947) by writer (and Batman co-creator) Bill Finger, penciler Curt Swan & inker John Fischetti is a post-World War II story, but the submarine crew are clearly Nazis!
A few nitpicky notes:
1) The lush vegetation of the island certainly disproves the opening caption about a 'desert" island!
2) The Batplane has a heck of a flight range for an aircraft of the era!
The Golden Age's Gotham City is located around our New York City, and the tropical foliage of the island indicates it's at least off the coast of the Carolinas, over 600 miles away!
3) The smallest operational U-boat carried 18-24 officers and men.
Obviously, since they were on the run since the end of the war, there were no replacements for casualties, but operating a submarine that size with only 10 people would be difficult at best!
4) There's no mention in Batman, Detective Comics, or World's Finest about Robin wrecking the Batplane!
And when Batman builds an updated one in 1950, three years after this story...

...it's called "Batplane II"!

Shouldn't it be "Batplane III"?

Next Week, Robin the Teen Wonder battles Russkies!
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Nazi-Punchers DOC SAVAGE "Olympic Peril" Conclusion

It's Man of Bronze vs Mann aus Eisen (Man of Iron)...

...as a disguised Doc Savage acts to rescue his team, cousin Pat, and various international dignitaries!

Doc would battle Nazis several more times in his original pulp magazine run, and in later comic book stories, including a never-reprinted team-up with The Shadow, which we re-presented HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE (which also features a cool Easter Egg about the origin of a certain Golden Age Star-Spangled Avenger)!

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Nazi-Punchers DOC SAVAGE "Olympic Peril" Chapter 3: Funeral in Berlin

When Last We Left the Man of Bronze...

...aware that a Nazi plot involving a German Ubermensch, developed using the same methods Doc's father used to hone him into the physical and mental marvel he is, will be executed at the 1936 Olympics, the Man of Bronze and his team arrive on the scene...

Tomorrow: Wall-to-Wall Nazi-Punching!

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Nazi-Punchers DOC SAVAGE "Olympic Peril" Chapter 2: Six Came Together

We Have Already Seen...

...after an assassination attempt is made on Doc Savage and his team, they discover the now-dead killers were Nazis sent to prevent the adventurers from interfering in "Operation Siegfried", involving a German they had encountered years before...















Note: It had long been established back in the original pulp magazines that Doc met the future members of the Amazing Five while they were all incarcerated during World War I in German POW camp "Loki"...which they escaped from!

But, the details of the matter had never been revealed.

This never-reprinted Annual from 1989 was the first time the actual event had been shown.

Two years later, with the final Bantam Books reprints of the original pulps issued, completing the series, Bantam commissioned Philip Jose Farmer, who had written Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life (A 'biography' of the character treating the pulps as historical documentation.) and a series of books about the Wold Newton shared universe which postulated that most fictional characters and stories (everything from Jane Austin to HG Wells) fit together into a single continuity!
Think League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, but on steroids!
He had also penned a treatment for a sequel (Doc Savage: Arch-Enemy of Evil) to the 1975 George Pal movie Doc Savage: the Man of Bronze, and scripted several pastiches with a thinly-disguised Doc Savage named Doc Caliban along with an equally-thinly disguised Tarzan, including this obvious tribute to the Bantam reprints with a kool Gray Morrow-doing-James Bama cover...

...which made him an obvious choice to do the official "origin" tale of Doc and his team.

The result is quite different from the Annual by writer Mike W Barr, penciler Gabriel Morrissette, and inker Rick Magyar.
Trivia: AFAIK, Escape from Loki is the only Doc Savage prose novel to not be reprinted in any form!

The Action Continues...at the 1936 Olympics, Tomorrow!

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