Nazi-Punchers DOC SAVAGE "Olympic Peril" Chapter 2: Six Came Together

We Have Already Seen...

...after an assassination attempt is made on Doc Savage and his team, they discover the now-dead killers were Nazis sent to prevent the adventurers from interfering in "Operation Siegfried", involving a German they had encountered years before...















Note: It had long been established back in the original pulp magazines that Doc met the future members of the Amazing Five while they were all incarcerated during World War I in German POW camp "Loki"...which they escaped from!

But, the details of the matter had never been revealed.

This never-reprinted Annual from 1989 was the first time the actual event had been shown.

Two years later, with the final Bantam Books reprints of the original pulps issued, completing the series, Bantam commissioned Philip Jose Farmer, who had written Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life (A 'biography' of the character treating the pulps as historical documentation.) and a series of books about the Wold Newton shared universe which postulated that most fictional characters and stories (everything from Jane Austin to HG Wells) fit together into a single continuity!
Think League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, but on steroids!
He had also penned a treatment for a sequel (Doc Savage: Arch-Enemy of Evil) to the 1975 George Pal movie Doc Savage: the Man of Bronze, and scripted several pastiches with a thinly-disguised Doc Savage named Doc Caliban along with an equally-thinly disguised Tarzan, including this obvious tribute to the Bantam reprints with a kool Gray Morrow-doing-James Bama cover...

...which made him an obvious choice to do the official "origin" tale of Doc and his team.

The result is quite different from the Annual by writer Mike W Barr, penciler Gabriel Morrissette, and inker Rick Magyar.
Trivia: AFAIK, Escape from Loki is the only Doc Savage prose novel to not be reprinted in any form!

The Action Continues...at the 1936 Olympics, Tomorrow!

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Let's Begin Our Tale with the Man of Bronze's Associates...

...engaged in their usual hi-jinks.

The Action Continues...with a FlashBack to World War I, Tomorrow!

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Nazi-Punchers DOC SAVAGE "Olympic Peril" Prologue

Our Tale Begins at the Literal Beginning of Life Itself...

...and will span three decades, a World War, the origin of the first team of super-adventurers, and the most controversial sports festival in history!

Be Here Tomorrow for the First Chapter in a Never-Reprinted, Book-Length SuperSaga!
Have No Fear!
The Man of Bronze is HERE!

Russkie-Smashers SPY CASES "Smashing the Iron Curtain!"

"A secret agent is not some mythical being born on the comic page..."

...and raised to glory on the silver screen!"

How "meta" can you get?

Though the tale is closer to Mickey Spillane than Ian Fleming, it's still a rousing adventure that proves you don't need tights and a cape to smash Russkies!

Doug Grant was the star of the ongoing (and usually cover-featured) lead strip of Atlas' Spy Cases anthology comic.
This intro tale from #27 (actually #1, but they were continuing the numbering from a different comic, The Kellys) is scripted by Robert Bernstein and illustrated by Al Hartley.
He lasted for 39 stories, longer than any other Atlas-era secret agent except for The Yellow Claw's nemesis Jimmy Woo!

Next Week:

The legendary Man of Bronze takes on the Nazis at the 1936 Olympics as they put up an athlete who was trained from birth using the same techniques that Dr Clark Savage Sr used for Doc in this never-reprinted, almost 40 year-old extra-long tale!

Guest appearances by historical figures including Jesse Owens and Adolf (You Know Who)!

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Nazi-Punchers HIT COMICS "Ghost of Flanders in ' Who He Is and How He Came to Be"

Thanks to #JamesGunn 's Easter Egg in the new #Superman movie...

...specifically, this image on a multi-character mural at the Justice Gang HQ of a costumed hero with a World War I bi-plane overhead and a field of red poppies at his feet, we see that the head of the DC Cinematic Universe has plans for a certain obscure character who never appeared in a DC comic called Ghost of Flanders!

His strip ran for eight issues in Quality Comics' Hit Comics 18 thru 24 (1941-42).
Keeping in mind that this 1941 story (published before Pearl Harbor) appeared only 23 years after the end of World War I (considered the War to End All Wars) and taught extensively in American schools, and you might understand the significance of his nom du guerre.

Note: Though the costume design remained the same throughout the character's series, the coloring changed several times.
The color scheme seen in the mural is something of a compromise!

1) Why is the red poppy so frightening to German spies?
It ties in to Flanders Field as explained HERE!

2) How, you may ask, did Ghost of Flanders end up at DC?
DC purchased all of Quality's assets when the company folded in 1956.
They continued publishing Blackhawk without interruption thru 1968 (as we showed HERE), but held off on using any of the other characters until they revamped/revived Plastic Man in 1966 as we showed HERE.
In the 1970s, with the development of the 100-Page Super-Spectacular format, they began reprinting some of Quality's Golden Age characters including Quicksilver (renamed "Max Mercury" since Marvel has a super-speedster named Quicksilver since 1963), Black Condor, The Ray, Doll Man, and Phantom Lady, among others.
This led to a revival of the Quality characters in an annual JLA-JSA "Crisis on..." story involving "Earth X", where the Nazis had won World War II...and killed the Blackhawks and Plastic Man (and, presumably the rest of the Quality heroes and heroines except for these six!)

Art by Nick Cardy

This led to the featured Quality heroes coming to Earth-One and receiving their own title!

Art by Ernie Chua/Chan

Since then, post-Crisis on Infinite Earths, almost all the Quality heroes and heroines have been integrated into whatever the DC Universe currently is, largely thanks to Roy Thomas' integrating the Golden Age Quality/Fawcett/Fox characters into the All-Star Squadron!
But Ghost of Flanders didn't even make it to a group shot in any of those stories!

Ghost of Flanders Will Return!