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| What's this I see? Billy Batson in blackface? Ouch!! Still, like Lou Reed said, "those were different times." |
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| This is the second time recently
that I have seen a Fawcett character riding through the skies on a piece of ordinance. I think Jr was on a bomb.
Quite apart of the obvious anatomical implications of the image, Fawcett was the last place I would have expected to see that imagery.
And that is one h*^#@ 9f of an ENGINE of DOOM!
Makes me curious as to what was the first instance that imagery was used. I suspect in one of the wartime Disney or Warner Brothers wartime propaganda cartoons. And seeing that imagery would have stayed in the minds of cartoonists.
Who drew that and what was going on in his mind?
At this point in writing, a light-bulb went off. This was a common image that Bomber Crews painted on the fuselages of their planes.
Also, from the synopsis of the story, What is a GNATZI? [Also used in the text of the story?
Please explain? |
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| Additional Information |
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| Publication | January 1941 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Monthly |
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| Cover | Captain Marvel Rides the Engine of Doom! |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Captain Marvel [Billy Batson] |
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| Comic Story | The Engine of Doom (12 pages) |
| Synopsis | Billy asks Mr. Morris if he could go to Europe and ride back on a refugee rescue ship as the Gnazis have threatened to torpedo it, endangering the lives of innocent women and children. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Captain Marvel [Billy Batson, aka Rastus Washington Brown]; Sterling Morris; Dr. Hans Krause [aka Edward Smith] (villain, introduction); The Gnazis (villains, some die) |
| Notes | Story title taken from the cover.
Except on the masthead, Captain Marvel wears no cape in the story. |
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| Comic Story | Ballots and Blood (9 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier |
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| Comic Story | Chestful of Danger (8 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure |
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| Comic Story | The Mask's Fifth Column (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Spy Smasher, Eve and Admiral Corby are all in on the battle against the Mask's Fifth Columnists, many of whom are hiding in a mountain stronghold, awaiting orders from their leader to attack Washington. However, Spy Smasher has a plan to make the Mask think we have 10,000 robots manning planes that can shoot machine guns and drop bombs! |
| Content | Genre: Spy; Superhero | Characters: Spy Smasher [Alan Armstrong]; Admiral Corby; Eve Corby; The Mask (villain); Reltih (villain, death); Inilossom (villain, pilot); 10-Q (villain) |
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| Comic Story | The Big Shot (9 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: The Big Shot [Harper] (Villain; Intro) |
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| Text Story | Jungle Magic (2 pages) |
| Credits | Letters: Typeset |
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| Synopsis | Hal and Nikko, while on a hunting trip, discover a diamond mine and diamonds that can be sold and the money used to build a jungle hospital. |
| Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Dr. Voodoo [Hal Carey]; Nikko (Chief of the White Blanca Indians); Walter Webb (American mining engineer); Maxinya (Webb's daughter); Jappa (Maxinya's pey jaguar); Okoro (villain, medicine man of the Blancas) |
| Notes | The story is continued in the next issue. |
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| Comic Story | The Widow's Wishes (8 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Widow Zorn (Villain; Intro) |
| Notes | story continues in next issue |
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