I like the splash panel for this adventure of Mighty Man from. It tells us Mighty Man’s powers: He can grow! He can shrink! He can change his features! I especially like the big hand he can produce to get to his enemies. It reminds me of Plastic Man, but without the plastic. I like what Don Markstein’s Toonopedia says about Mighty Man: “Mighty Man was such an early jumper-on to the Superman bandwagon, it was still possible to give him a generic name, one that, like Wonder Man or Amazing-Man, says nothing about the character except ‘I'm a super guy.’”
The episode is evidently part of a longer story, but is full of Mighty Man’s tricks on a villain called the Witch, whose witch powers apparently give her the appearance of a normal looking young woman. (What? No broom?) I also like that Mighty Man can become Mighty Kid. I guess that is where one of the promises of the splash panel comes in: He can change his features!
Grand Comics Database attributes both story and art to Martin Filchock. Filchock is the creator of Mighty Man, according to Public Domain Super Heroes. The story appeared in Centaur’s Stars and Stripes Comics #2 (1941).
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Monday, December 07, 2015
Number 1824: Dr Synthe has the Midas touch
Do you remember when I showed the first Dr Synthe story a few months ago (Pappy’s #1741)? At the end of that story he is asked to make gold, and in this story he does! He even sells $10,000,000 of it to the U.S. Government! What a pal!
Dr Synthe takes his powers from space itself, where he can gather particles of celestial matter and form objects, including body parts (see the aforementioned first story). For people needing organ transplants he would be a handy guy to have around, but then, as now, no individual lives mattered as much as gold. With it Dr Synthe and his friends can buy their own apartment building. What a fantasy that must have been for New York apartment dwellers of the time.
As usual, all that glitters, etc... Making gold just brings down more troubles, in this case a foreign power trying to kidnap him. In this episode Dr Synthe shows another power of his, the ability to grow tall, like the villain, the Claw, and another superhero of the era, Phantasmo. I scanned an entire book of black line Phantasmo reprints in 2012. Just check the link below.
This story is from Stars and Stripes Comics #4 (1941).
As promised, here is Phantasmo:
Dr Synthe takes his powers from space itself, where he can gather particles of celestial matter and form objects, including body parts (see the aforementioned first story). For people needing organ transplants he would be a handy guy to have around, but then, as now, no individual lives mattered as much as gold. With it Dr Synthe and his friends can buy their own apartment building. What a fantasy that must have been for New York apartment dwellers of the time.
As usual, all that glitters, etc... Making gold just brings down more troubles, in this case a foreign power trying to kidnap him. In this episode Dr Synthe shows another power of his, the ability to grow tall, like the villain, the Claw, and another superhero of the era, Phantasmo. I scanned an entire book of black line Phantasmo reprints in 2012. Just check the link below.
This story is from Stars and Stripes Comics #4 (1941).
As promised, here is Phantasmo:
Friday, May 29, 2015
Number 1741: Of godlike powers: giving Betty new lungs
Dr. Synthe (short for “synthesis”) has the ability to make things from the stuff that is floating around in space, including mechanical objects — a car — or money, or even new lungs for Betty, a woman he just met after arriving from space.
The short-lived character (appearances in four issues of Centaur’s Stars and Stripes Comics) was born of the superhero boom of the prewar comic book explosion. He is credited to grandly-named Harry Francis Campbell, writer, and a fellow grandly-named artist, Henry Weston Taylor.
Despite his godlike powers, Dr. Synthe is unable to fix his rocket ship, and he crash lands on Earth. I said he had godlike powers, not that he is smart with them. He thinks it would be fun to be stranded on a world with people. Even godlike entities from space must have weaknesses, including wanting to be around people. This introduction of Dr. Synthe is from Stars and Stripes Comics #3 (1941).
The short-lived character (appearances in four issues of Centaur’s Stars and Stripes Comics) was born of the superhero boom of the prewar comic book explosion. He is credited to grandly-named Harry Francis Campbell, writer, and a fellow grandly-named artist, Henry Weston Taylor.
Despite his godlike powers, Dr. Synthe is unable to fix his rocket ship, and he crash lands on Earth. I said he had godlike powers, not that he is smart with them. He thinks it would be fun to be stranded on a world with people. Even godlike entities from space must have weaknesses, including wanting to be around people. This introduction of Dr. Synthe is from Stars and Stripes Comics #3 (1941).
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