CoronaVirus Comics HEAVY METAL "Fever"

Heavy Metal the Magazine mostly featured reprints of "adult" sf/fantasy material from Europe...

...as well as new material from both European and American artists!

Originally-appearing in Les Humanoïdes Associés' Metal Hurlant #33 (1978) this tale, written and illustrated by Jean-Michel Nicollet was translated and published in Heavy Metal V5N7 (1981).

Another tale which anthropomorphized cancer can be found HERE!

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Metal Hurlant

Selected Works

CoronaVirus Comics IRON ACE "Leper"

You'd think if an aircraft pilot is called "Iron Ace", it would be meant metaphorically!

Not in this guy's case!

And the villain of this tale is called "The Leper"!

Guess why?

Illustrated by Bill Fraccio, this never-reprinted (and extremely-racist) tale from Hillman's Air Fighters Comics #12 (1943) features the only appearance of that publisher's "Leper" character.

Trivia: the CrimeBuster strip in Lev Gleason's Boy Comics had featured a different Axis character  (a German) the year before, also called "The Leper"!
However, he wasn't diseased and his name was merely symbolic.

Both were one-shot baddies.

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Air Fighters Classics #1

Reprinting the Iron Ace's Origin!

CoronaVirus Comics YARKO THE GREAT "Curse of Hegate"

An unusual tale combining mysticism and medicine...

...featuring one of the most obscure magic heroes of all!

Written and illustrated by the book's editor Joe Simon, this never-reprinted story from Fox's WonderWorld Comics #14 (1940) features the casual racism against blacks prevalent in America until the 1960s.

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Take That, Adolf!

Fighting Comic Books of the Second World War

CoronaVirus Comics DR NEMESIS "Blood-Bank Massacres!"

During World War II, superheroes entered the fray against biological warfare...

...as shown in this story about a doctor turned costumed hero that, due to both graphic gruesomeness and extreme racism, almost redefines "Not Safe For Work"!

Written by longtime pulp (and later paperback) scribe Robert Turner and illustrated by Earl Da Voren, this never-reprinted tale from Ace's Super-Mystery Comics V1N01 (1944) displays the classic propaganda tropes that, unfortunately, endured in the impressionable minds of those who read them long after the war ended!

Trivia: This was Doctor Nemesis' final appearance.

Since the name's trademark had elapsed decades earlier and his original appearances had become Public Domain, Marvel Comics revived and revised the character in the early 1990s.

(Marvel has a tendency to take Golden Age names from defunct companies' characters and reuse them...including Captain Marvel, Daredevil, and Ghost Rider!)

Doctor Nemesis was one of the few superheroes named "Doctor" who was an actual practicing MD!

Others included Dr Mid-Nite (even though he was legally-blind) and Doc Savage!

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Take That, Adolf!

Fighting Comic Books of the Second World War

SUPERBITCH the THIRD Black Superheroine! (Conclusion)

When Last We Left Our Hot Heroine...

...recruited by the US government to rescue missing astronauts, SuperBitch encounters creepy cosmic perils as she retraces their route...

Sadly, this was SuperBitch's only appearance!

Written and illustrated by Ira Harmon in his only print comics work, this 1977 book was part of the output of little-known underground publisher California Comics, who specialized in scantly-clad (and unclad) action heroines!

Harmon cleaned-up the art and reissued the book as a free download HERE.

Note: We're using a scan of the original 1977 book, so it's worth your time to check out his personally-remastered version!

And, Harmon has apparently gotten back into the comics field with a new line of digital books at Reaction Comics!