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!

Russkie-Smashers THE FBI STORY

Remember the "Good Ol' Days" When We Could, More Often Then Not, Trust the FBI?

To demonstrate this, we submit Exhibit A, an excerpt from Dell's Four Color Comics #1069: The FBI Story (1959), an adaptation of the movie of the same name!

Adapted by writers Eric Freiwald and Robert Schaefer and ilustrated by Alex Toth, the movie covered the career of "everyman" agent Chip Hardesty played by Jimmy Stewart, from 1924 to the "present" of 1959, fighting bootleggers, Nazis, the KKK, and, of course, Russkie Commies!
Of course, there was no CGI to "de-age" Stewart for the chronoligically-earlier scenes, so they depended on makeup and hair dye for those scenes.

Foreign movie poster with the "younger" Jimmy Stewart.

Comic cover with pic of the "current" (1959) Jimmy Stewart.

The flick was filmed with the full cooperation of the FBI, since J Edgar Hoover had total approval over the final edit!

Here's the trailer for the movie, which features a cameo by J Edgar...

Enjoy!

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The Hero You Never Got to Know CAPTAIN JUSTICE "Once a Hero" Part 2

We Have Already Seen...

Back cover of the VHS release of the pilot episode "Believers".
...well, this sorta conveys what's going on!
But let's see if the comic itself can do better...

OK, close enough.
Let's continue...

To Be Concluded Tomorrow at Secret Sanctum of Captain Video!

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