Viet-Cong Wallopers TOD HOLTON: SUPER GREEN BERET "The Curtain Rises!"

Never failing to capitalize on a pop culture trend...

...numerous comics publishers, noticing the popularity of the 1966 hit single Ballad of the Green Berets (by Staff Sgt. Barry Sadler and Robin Moore) quickly produced comics series featuring the elite Army unit.
Most were standard war comics, but one stood out from the rest for sheer weirdness...

What do you get when you combine
the Green Berets

with Teenagers and SuperHeroes?

Why,

SUPER GREEN BERET

of course!

Using his new-found powers of teleportation, telepathy, telekinesis, transmutation, time travel, invulnerability, and super-strength, Tod decides to fight Enemies of Our Country, mostly in present-day Asia, but also traveling through time to the American Revolution and World War II, during his two-issue run!
Yes, it's as hokey as it sounds!
Created by writer Otto Binder (who co-created the Golden Age Captain Marvel and the Silver Age Supergirl) and illustrator Carl Pfeufer, who was a busy artist in the Golden Age doing superhero and western strips at both Fawcett and Timely (Marvel Comics' predecessor), the series ran for only two Annual-sized (64-page) issues.

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BLACK ADAM "Who He WAS, and How He Came to Be..." Conclusion

We Have Already Seen...

...Black Adam, the first person the old wizard Shazam granted powers to, has returned after 5,000 years to continue his attempt to conquer the Earth!

But a duo of new Shazam-created champions, Captain Marvel and Captain Marvel Jr, stand in his way.
But all three combatants discover their magical powers are equal, and neither side can gain an advantage!
As Black Adam retreats to rethink his strategy against these new enemies, the Marvels head to the Rock of Eternity to consult Shazam as to how to defeat a foe exactly like themselves...

This tale, written by Otto Binder, penciled by C C Beck, and inked by Pete Costanza from Fawcett's Marvel Family #1 (1945), was Black Adam's sole Golden Age appearance!

(Amazing, considering how often villains considered deceased managed to reappear in comics!)
After Shazam and his champions were revived by DC in the Bronze Age, Black Adam was left in literary limbo...

...until he was literally resurrected!

But that's a story you'll have to return tomorrow to read!

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BLACK ADAM "Who He WAS, and How He Came to Be..." Part 1

Before you see the new movie starring Dwayne Johnson as Black Adam...

...perhaps you should see who (and what), the nominal "hero" was!

Let's begin at the beginning...during the Golden Age of Comics...

...a story old Shazam will relate...
TOMORROW!

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MONSTER SOCIETY OF EVIL "Chapter XXV: the End of Mr Mind!"

We Have Already Seen...

...and now on with the final chapter of this mind-bending (no pun intnded) serial!

Mr. Mind would reappear only in flashbacks in Fawcett's various "Marvel Family" titles.

When DC revived the Marvel Family in SHAZAM!, it was revealed Mr. Mind had survived!

...for the astonishing epilogue, be here
Monday!

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MONSTER SOCIETY OF EVIL "Chapter XXIV: the Undersea Monster Brigade"

When Last We Left Our Villain...

...yep, it's the bad guy who's about to meet his demise!

"All of Mr. Mind's dome attendants drown like the rats they are..."
For a kiddie-oriented strip, this serial's pretty damn lethal!

Pity the World's Mightiest Mortal doesn't have x-ray vision like Superman, eh?
Of course, that might have helped end the copyright infringement trial sooner than it did...
D.C. (then National Comics Publications, Inc) found itself squaring off with Fawcett Publications, Inc. in a 1941 lawsuit challenging publication of Captain Marvel (now known as “Shazam”).
It took several court decisions, a 1948 trial and 13 years of litigation before Superman ultimately prevailed in 1954 when Fawcett agreed to settle amidst a decision to leave the comic book business altogether.

Note, we have the secret code...

...from the back of the Captain Marvel Club Membership Card (shown here)!

And, no, we're not going to translate it for you!

...the excitement concludes here
Friday!
(Yes, You Read That Right!)

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