Russkie-Smashers DANGER "Duke Douglas in 'Intrigue' "

When You Want a No-Nonsense, Basic, Extremely-Effective Russkie-Smasher...

...Look No Further than kick-ass Secret Agent Duke Douglas!

Co-creators Ken Fitch (writer) and Don Heck (illustrator) produced this cover-featured tale from Comic Media's Danger #9, 1954.

Russkie-Smashers / Chi-Com Crushers LARS OF MARS "Terror Weapon" Conclusion

When Last We Left the Martian disguised as a Human Actor Playing a Martian on TV...

Art by Allen Anderson

...he was heading for Manchuria to stop a mad Soviet scientist from unleashing a super-weapon that could freeze anything!

After facing several deadly devices, Lars uses his ability to travel at light-speed...

Written by Jerry Siegel, illustrated by Murphy Anderson, this was the cover-featured tale from Ziff-Davis' Lars of Mars #11 (1951), the second (and last issue) of the series!

BTW, the cover artist is Allen Anderson (no relation to Murphy)

And, Allen also did the cover to the second (and last) issue of Ziff-Davis' Space Busters...which was illustrated by Murphy!

Weird, huh? 

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Russkie-Smashers / Chi-Com Crushers LARS OF MARS "Terror Weapon" Part 1

Old Commies Never Die...

...they just return in the next issue working for different Commies, as the guy who doesn't just play a Martian on TV, but is a Martian playing an actor playing a Martian on TV while fighting crime in real life (got that?) discovers...

What Next?

Will Lars Stop Raskov?

Will Raskov Stop (and/or Kill) Lars?

Be Here Next Monday for the Astounding Conclusion!

You'll note the Communist Chinese were illustrated in a non-cartoony manner, unlike the overly-caricatured Japanese in most World War II comics and animated cartoons!
(The unfortunate lemon-yellow skin-tone wasn't artist Murphy Anderson's choice, I'm sure.)
Written by Jerry Siegel, illustrated by Murphy Anderson, this was the cover-featured tale from Ziff-Davis' Lars of Mars #11 (1951), the second (and last issue) of the series!

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NoKo Crushers MADAM ZERO "Rockets of the Red Mist"

Some Reich-wingers like Jerry Falwell Jr postulated North Korea and Red China deliberately created CoronaVirus!

Perhaps Falwell was inspired by this forgotten  heroine's never-reprinted final tale from Fiction House's Fight Comics #84 (1952)!

Anonymous Commie-buster Madam Zero made only three appearances in her short-lived career!

A mistress of disguise, she always surprised the (also anonymous) secret agent who narrated these stories and who played the helpless "Steve Trevor" to her plain-clothes "Wonder Woman"!

Nothing is known about her real identity, motivations, or even which department she worked for!

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MAD-DOG "vs. the Truly Amazing Space Creatures from the Omega Galaxy"

We interrupt "Russkie Smashers" for an important announcement...

WE'RE BEING INVADED!!!
FLEE FOR YOUR LIVES!!!

Mad-Dog's Silver Age-era creator/writer/artist Bob McKay doesn't exist, despite receiving credit on the cover...

...as well as the splash page.
He's the title character of the 1992-94 TV show BOB, the final series starring the late, great, Bob Newhart!

McCay was the creator/writer/artist of the Silver Age Batman-esque character Mad-Dog!
Unlike most Golden and Silver Age creators, he managed to hold on to the copyright to the character!
When, in the "present day" of 1992, Harlan Stone, editor of Ace Comics, contacts Bob and offers to publish new adventures of Mad-Dog, McCay is ecstatic...until he sees that Stone wants to reboot the character as a grungy, homicidal vigilante!
Stone proposes this comic (published by Marvel) which will present both versions!
Note that, for the purposes of this story, actual writer-penciller Ty Templeton and inker Jeff Albrecht are identified as McCay's "assistants"!
You can read Stone's overly-violent Dark Age version right now over at our 'brother" RetroBlog Atomic Kommie Comics by clicking HERE!
And you can watch (yes, watch) the series' origin story at another "brother" RetroBlog, Secret Sanctum of Captain Video, by clicking HERE!

BTW, Russkie Smashers will return next Monday!

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