Russkie-Smashers vs Traitor Politicans GREEN HORNET "Proof of Treason" Part 1

"He Hunts the Biggest of All Game: Public Enemies Even the G-Men Cannot Reach!"

"With his faithful valet, Kato, Britt Reid, daring young publisher of the Daily Sentinel, matches wits with racketeers and saboteurs, risking his life so that criminals and enemy spies may feel the weight of the law by the sting of...The Green Hornet!"

How will The Green Hornet do that?

Be Here Tomorrow for the Conclusion!

This tale about Communists infiltrating American politics is adapted by writer Paul S Newman (not the actor) from one of the last Green Hornet radio episodes and illustrated by Frank (Red Sonja) Thorne, and appeared in Dell's Four Color Comics #496 (1953), a book that featured one-off appearances of various characters to test their sales potential.

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Green Hornet: EndPoint

(which includes the radio episode this comic story is adapted from!)

Russkie-Smashers OPERATION: PERIL "Time Travelers in 'Amazons of Venus' "

"We must beat the Communists to Venus..."

"...in order to prevent the atomic war predicted by Nostradamus!"

The first Time Travelers tale was a fairly-straightforward 1950s sci-fi story.

But this one goes wayyyy out there with numerous cliches of the era including...

Cavemen and dinosaurs co-existing in prehistoric times!

Venus as a vegetation-covered world ruled by beautiful, half-clad women who keep their males subservient!

Commie spies in business suits...even when they're on another world!

Travel between planets taking about the same amount of time as the average morning commute!

Written by Richard Hughes and illustrated by Ken Bald, this story from ACG's Operation: Peril #2 (1950) expands the strip's concept to include space and time travel by integrating the time technology into a spacecraft provided by the US government.

As a result, the emphasis will switch from Communist threats to alien attacks.

Despite this, the series' title will remain "Time Travelers" for the entire run.

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Operation Peril

Volume 1
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Russkie-Smashers BLACKHAWK "Flying Tank Platoon!"

Let's Get Back to Some Serious Russkie-Smashing...

...as the Blackhawks tackle what was then state-of-the-art technology!

Unlike an earlier tale we presented about 1950s high-tech, this never-reprinted story from Quality's Blackhawk #106 (1956) was not based on actual experimental prototypes!

Writer Robert Bernstein, penciler Dick Dillin, and inker Chuck Cuidera created this whole thing from their fertile imaginations!

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Blackhawk

by William Rotsler

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Russkie-Smashers PLASTIC MAN "Dazzla, Daughter of Darkness!"

Behind this cover by penciler Charles Nicholas and inker Chuck Cuidera...

...lurks a pretty kool tale of Commie menace written and illustrated by Plaz's creator, Jack Cole!

This story appeared in Quality's Plastic Man #53 (1955).

But it's actually a reprint, since the tale first appeared in Quality's Plastic Man #30 (1951).

There's no re-working/re-editing required by the Comics Code as was done to some other Plaz tales such as the one shown HERE!

So why did we run the reprint?

Because the tale wasn't cover-featured during initial publication, but was the second time around!

There is method to our madness!

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Plastic Man 80-Page Giant

Featuring classic tales from each of his eras (Golden Age/Silver Age/Bronze Age)

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Russkie-Smashers CRUSADER FROM MARS "Death in the Soil"

Lars of Mars wasn't the only Jerry Siegel co-created character to battle Russkies!

..There was also this guy, who was the Red Planet's only felon in half a century!

Illustrated by Henry Sharp, and written by editor Jerry (Superman) Siegel, the second story from Ziff-Davis' Crusader from Mars #1 (1952) continues the theme that the major example of "Evil on Earth" Tarka and Zira must battle is Communism!

BTW, isn't it a shame there was never a Lars/Crusader crossover?

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Pre-Code Classics

Lars of Mars / Crusader from Mars

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