Monday, May 19, 2025

Russkie-Smashers SENSATION COMICS "Dr Pat--Flight Surgeon!"

She cures the sick, catches criminals...
...and defeats Communists!
Is there nothing Dr Pat Windsor can't do...while looking really kool doing it?
Though Wonder Woman was the cover-featured heroine of Sensation Comics...
...it's obvious Dr Pat is the real "Wonder Woman' of the book, as this never-reprinted story from #100 (1950) by writer Robert Kanigher, penciler Carmine Infantino, and inker Frank Giacoia proves!
She outsmarts a high-ranking Communist officer and shoots down a fighter, while handling her flight surgeon duties!
BTW, the XB-49 "Flying Wing" was a real (albeit experimental) bomber tested during the late 1940s-early 1950s!
It's best-known to the public as the bomber seen in the 1953 movie War of the Worlds delivering an A-Bomb against the Martians!
(Actual flight footage of the ship, not a miniature, was used.)
Who says comics ain't educational?

Monday, May 12, 2025

Nazi-Punchers GREEN HORNET "Society of the Swastika!"

Let's Cheer on the Hero Who Pretends to be a Villain...

...as he and his aide, Kato, match wits with racketeers and saboteurs, risking their lives so that criminals and enemy spies will feel the weight of the law by the sting of The Green Hornet!







We already showed The Green Hornet and Kato battling Russkie spies in America at the tail-end of their show's run in 1953 HERE and HERE.
But, this never-reprinted story from Harvey's Green Hornet Comics #18 (1944), at the peak of their popularity, shows they fought German and Japanese spies and saboteurs on the home front!
(And, in a couple of cases, behind enemy lines in Europe, as we'll show in the future!)
Illustrated by the co-creator of both Robin the Boy Wonder and The Joker, Jerry Robinson!
The tale's writer is unknown.
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Monday, May 5, 2025

Russkie-Smashers CAPTAIN AMERICA "Hour of Doom!"

Propaganda/Disinformation Presented by a Trusted Source...

...was a popular with the Russkies in the 1950s as it is with MAGA today!
Luckily, back then we had a Captain America & Bucky to expose it!





This final appearance of the Cap & Bucky of the 1950s (until Marvel's Captain America #153 [1972] as detailed HERE), written by Don Rico and illustrated by John Romita Sr,  appeared as the last story in Atlas' Captain America #78 (1954), ending his part of the short-lived revival of Timely Comics' "Big Three" (Cap, Human Torch, and Sub-Mariner)

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Monday, April 28, 2025

Nazi-Punchers SUPER GREEN BERET "White Magic in the Black Forest!"

The Green Berets were established in 1952!
So how is one of them fighting Nazis during World War II???
It could only happen in comic books!
We introduced you to Tod Holton: Super Green Beret HERE!
In that same premiere issue from Lightning Comics (#1 in 1967), besides fighting (then) present-day VietCong, he travelled through time, thanks to writer Otto Binder and artist Carl Pfeufer!
In the next (and final issue), Tod travelled back even further in time to the American Revolution!
We'll save that one for next year, the 250th anniversary of America!
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Monday, April 21, 2025

Russkie-Smashers MAN COMICS "Bob Brant & the Trouble-Shooters! in 'Rocket to the Moon!/Out of this World!' "

There are Russkies Everywhere...

...in every country, under the sea, and the sky above...including the Moon!
Note: May be NSFW due to portrayal of Australian Aborigines, though it's not any worse than the standard depiction of Native Americans in similar stories of the era.









So, the All-American teenagers defeat Russkies and claim the Moon for the good 'ol USA in this never-reprinted tale illustrated by Carl Hubbell from Atlas' Man Comics #27 (1953)!
It's a pity the magazine only ran for one more issue after this!
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