MONSTER SOCIETY OF EVIL "Chapter VI: Mr Mind on Earth"

We Have Already Seen...

...now that the comic has synopsized the tale, we'll point out you'll be seeing a classic example of "benign racism'!

Actually, you can see the next chapter right here...

TOMORROW!

Steamboat was introduced in the Captain Marvel strip in one of Fawcett's anthology titles, America's Greatest Comics #2 (1942) as a food pushcart owner attacked by criminals.

He became Billy Batson's valet (paid by WHIZ Radio), and it's in that capacity we see him here.

Don't even ask how an under-18 kid has his own penthouse , or was able to sign a contract with a radio station.

As they Say on Mystery Science Theatre 3000...

"If you're wondering how he eats and breathes
And other science facts,
Just repeat to yourself "It's just a show,
I should really just relax...")

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MONSTER SOCIETY OF EVIL "Chapter III: the Second Pearl Harbor"

When Last We Left Our Hero...

...you'll note that, even though this is the third chapter, it's the first cover to feature the story!

Over the twenty-five issue run of the serial, only four covers feature it!

Oh, BTW, here's the story synopsis...

The battle continues Thursday back at...
HERO HISTORIES!

Nippo from Nagasaki is hardly the most egregious example of wartime racism against the Japanese.

Captain Marvel's competition, Superman, presented a nastier one in one of his Fleisher Brothers-produced cartoons...

Written by Otto Binder and illustrated by CC Beck and Pete Costanza, this particular tale doesn't show any of the Japanese as monkey-like twisted creatures, as many of the comics and cartoons of the era do.

And I suspect the use of "Nagasaki" in Nippo's full name was mere alliteration, not foreshadowing of the city being the target of the second atom bomb a couple of years later...

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MONSTER SOCIETY OF EVIL "Chapter II: the Jungle Trap"

When Last We Left Our Hero...

...you gotta love when the strip itself provides the synopsis, eh?

Unlike the original readers who had to wait a whole month, you'll only have to go without your comic book addiction "fix" for a mere 24 hours until...

Wednesday!

The African cannibals above combine the "minstrel show" stereotype appearance (big eyes, thick lighter-color lips) with a stilted-English speech pattern more like Tarzan's than the Southern patois common for American Black portrayals (as you'll see tomorrow).

Unfortunately, this was, more or less, standard for popular culture of the time, as the following cartoon, "Jungle Jitters" from 1938, shows...

Otto Binder scripted, and CC Beck & Pete Costanza illustrated this 2nd chapter of the Monster Society of Evil serial from Fawcett's Captain Marvel Adventures #23 (1943).

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ONE-FISTED TALES "Lo, If the Earth Should Move!"

In the late 1980s, a parody of badly-done b/w comics punked gullible people...

...and amused the more perceptive among us, so the creators decided to take the parody to the ultimate level, spoofing "Tijuana Bible" comics in Slave Labor Graphics' One-Fisted Tales #2 (1990)!

Writers Gerard Jones & Will Jacobs and illustrators Norman Felche & Mike Christian capture both the youthful enthuisasm and youthful ineptness of many of the inexperienced creators who desperately tried to cash in on the b/w comics craze of the late 1980s-early 1990s.

The tale reads and looks like teenage virgin nerds who read too much Stan Lee and Frank Miller and used How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way as their visual guidebook, wrote and drew it!

Enjoy!