Nazi-Punchers GREEN HORNET "Society of the Swastika!"

Let's Cheer on the Hero Who Pretends to be a Villain...

...as he and his aide, Kato, match wits with racketeers and saboteurs, risking their lives so that criminals and enemy spies will feel the weight of the law by the sting of The Green Hornet!

We already showed The Green Hornet and Kato battling Russkie spies in America at the tail-end of their show's run in 1953 HERE and HERE.

But, this never-reprinted story from Harvey's Green Hornet Comics #18 (1944), at the peak of their popularity, shows they fought German and Japanese spies and saboteurs on the home front!
(And, in a couple of cases, behind enemy lines in Europe, as we'll show in the future!)
Illustrated by the co-creator of both Robin the Boy Wonder and The Joker, Jerry Robinson!
The tale's writer is unknown.

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The Green Hornet

A History of Radio, Motion Pictures, Comics and Television

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Russkie-Smashers CAPTAIN AMERICA "Hour of Doom!"

Propaganda/Disinformation Presented by a Trusted Source...

...was a popular with the Russkies in the 1950s as it is with MAGA today!

Luckily, back then we had a Captain America & Bucky to expose it!

This final appearance of the Cap & Bucky of the 1950s (until Marvel's Captain America #153 [1972] as detailed HERE), written by Don Rico and illustrated by John Romita Sr,  appeared as the last story in Atlas' Captain America #78 (1954), ending his part of the short-lived revival of Timely Comics' "Big Three" (Cap, Human Torch, and Sub-Mariner)

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Decades

Marvel in the '50s

Captain America Strikes!

(Which reprints this story)

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Nazi-Punchers SUPER GREEN BERET "White Magic in the Black Forest!"

The Green Berets were established in 1952!

So how is one of them fighting Nazis during World War II???

It could only happen in comic books!

We introduced you to Tod Holton: Super Green Beret HERE!

In that same premiere issue from Lightning Comics (#1 in 1967), besides fighting (then) present-day VietCong, he travelled through time, thanks to writer Otto Binder and artist Carl Pfeufer!
In the next (and final issue), Tod travelled back even further in time to the American Revolution!
We'll save that one for next year, the 250th anniversary of America!

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Tales of the Green Berets

by Robin Moore and Joe Kubert

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Russkie-Smashers MAN COMICS "Bob Brant & the Trouble-Shooters! in 'Rocket to the Moon!/Out of this World!' "

There are Russkies Everywhere...

...in every country, under the sea, and the sky above...including the Moon!

Note: May be NSFW due to portrayal of Australian Aborigines, though it's not any worse than the standard depiction of Native Americans in similar stories of the era.

So, the All-American teenagers defeat Russkies and claim the Moon for the good 'ol USA in this never-reprinted tale illustrated by Carl Hubbell from Atlas' Man Comics #27 (1953)!

It's a pity the magazine only ran for one more issue after this!

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Newsboy Legion

Volume 1

by

Joe Simon & Jack Kirby

The First Kid Gang in Comic Books!

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Nazi-Punchers DAREDEVIL COMICS "Pat Patriot: America's Joan of Arc"

Here's the Introduction to One of the More Unique Patriotic Golden Age Heroines...

Read the story and see if you can guess what makes her different from the other Golden Age heroines!

Brave, patriotic, can handle herself in a fight!

"What's so different about her?"

Her name!

"Patricia Patrios", the name chosen by writers Charles Biro & Bob Wood to conveniently "lead" into the Pat Patriot nom-du-guerre, was not the typical WASPy name most comic characters used!

It's never mentioned in the stories, but she appears to be a 1st or 2nd generation American of Greek or Greek/insert ethnicity ancestry.

The art on this tale from Lev Gleason's DareDevil Comics #2 (1941) is confusing in that it has elements of both Frank Borth and Reed Crandall's styles.so it's impossible to say who did what!
Pat Patriot kicked Nazi and neo-Nazi asses from #2 to #11, after which almost all the features besides DareDevil himself were replaced!

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Divas, Dames & Daredevils

Lost Heroines of Golden Age Comics

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