Showing posts with label Seaboard. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Seaboard. 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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Friday, October 28, 2022

Heroic Halloween Horror SCORPION "Devil Doll Commission" Conclusion

Art by Ernie Colon
...freelance "problem solver" Moro Frost aka The Scorpion, is engaged by the wife of missing financier Jules Reinhardt, who dabbles in the occult.
The Scorpion finds Reinhardt...murdered!
Frost learns that the dead millionaire was once smuggler Max Cervantes, who "disappeared" after plastic surgery...becoming the respectable Reinhardt!
But who ordered the death of Cervantes/Reinhart..and why?
The answer to both those questions is Buddy Lyle, a crooked nightclub owner owed a fortune in gambling debts by the dead mllionare...who hadn't paid up!
Lyle used the powers of a voodoo mambo to kill Reinhardt, then killed her, but not before she cast a curse on him.
Though Lyle had the numbers for Reinhart's foreign bank accounts, only the dead man's wife could draw funds from them.
Lyle's men kidnap Bishop, The Scopion's aide, impersonating Mrs Reinhart, and are about to board a plane for Panama when the Scorpion strikes and kills Lyle's aides and pilot.
The criminal is about to force The Scorpion to pilot the airplane or he'll kill his far-from-helpless hostage...
The Scorpion was the creation of Howard Chaykin, a young writer-artist who was already a recognized talent in the comics industry.
Unfortunately, while he was (and is) good, he was also slow, and the deadline for this issue crept up on him.
To get the issue out on time, a group of friends including Mike Kaluta, Walt Simonson, Ed Davis, and Berni Wrightson jumped in doing whatever needed to be done, so the book is a fascinating amalgam of styles.
The next issue solved the deadline problem by replacing Chaykin and his version of The Scorpion with a present-day costumed super-hero who was more Spider-Man than anything else.

That Scorpion disappeared after his one issue.
Chaykin would revive the character at Marvel with modified garb and a new name; Dominic Fortune, who continues occasionally-appearing in both present-day and flashback tales.
The Scorpion (in any form) wasn't included in the recent short-lived revival of the Atlas/Seaboard characters.
BTW, here's another, never-used cover for #2 by Howard Chaykin...
Wonder why it wasn't used...because it is, undeniably, kool!
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Thursday, October 27, 2022

Heroic Halloween Horror SCORPION "Devil Doll Commission" Part 2

Unused cover from Scorpion #2 (1975) by Howard Chaykin finally used as cover for Comic Book Marketplace #77 (2011).
...freelance "problem solver" Moro Frost aka The Scorpion, is engaged by the wife of missing financier Jules Reinhardt, who dabbles in the occult.
The Scorpion finds Reinhardt...murdered!
And Frost learns that the dead millionaire was once smuggler Max Cervantes, who "disappeared" after plastic surgery...becoming the respectable Reinhardt!
What does crooked nightclub owner Lyle see?
Be here Friday to find out...
The Scorpion was the creation of Howard Chaykin, a young writer-artist who was already a recognized talent in the comics industry.
Unfortunately, while he was (and is) good, he was also slow, and the deadline for this issue crept up on him.
To get the book out on time, a group of friends including Mike Kaluta, Walt Simonson, Ed Davis, and Berni Wrightson jumped in doing whatever needed to be done, so the issue is a fascinating amalgam of styles.

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Wednesday, October 26, 2022

Heroic Halloween Horror SCORPION "Devil Doll Commission" Part 1

In the 1970s there were a number of pulp-style heroes in comics...
...and here's a never-reprinted story featuring one of the best of them against an occult menace!
...murdered via voodoo doll!
The Scorpion was the creation of Howard Chaykin, a young writer-artist who was already a recognized talent in the comics industry.
Unfortunately, while he was (and is) good, he was also slow, and the deadline for this issue crept up on him.
To get the book out on time, a group of friends including Mike Kaluta, Walt Simonson, Ed Davis, and Berni Wrightson jumped in doing whatever needed to be done, so the issue is a fascinating amalgam of styles.
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