Sargon the Sorcerer's plane has been hijacked by Nazis--they're after a French general on board.

You all remember how Sargon's power works, right? Anything he touches he has complete power over.

For example, he creates the Nazi Mr. Fantastic!


But then they bring out the big weapon!


"Cat O' nine tails--become nine cats"!!

This may be the best thing ever in a comic book, at least this week.

Which results in all out pandemonium...

Plus:

Sargon was essential the Axe Cop of the Golden Age...stream of consciousness anything goes. And he didn't even have to talk backwards!

From Sensation Comics #34 (1944)

Not a lot of time for this week's Friday Night Fights, so let's be quick:

Batman vs. Nazi grave-robbers!

'Nuff said!

Spacebooger could watch Batman beat up Nazis all day long!

Robert Kanigher and Jim Aparo set up Batman's trip to Argentina in The Brave And The Bold #188 (1982)

Now is the time for you to go and vote for my fight. Why? No time to worry--just go vote!!

Gotham City, 1944. Batman is interrupting so Nazi nogoodniks:

Geez, if it takes you that long to say Batman's name in German, what would do if it were the whole JSA attacking?!?!

Gotta get more compact in your language, is what I'm sayin...

From The Brave And The Bold #167 (1980)

It's 1942 on Earth-2, and Wonder Woman is trying to sneak Black Canary into a Nazi fortress.

Oh, that's "our" Black Canary, Ollie's girlfriend. This tale involves time travel and dimension-hopping and threats to all existence and stuff. Sort of a proto-Flashpoint.

Anyway, Wonder Woman is trying to sneak Black Canary into a Nazi fortress:


OK--I would pay any amount of money if the second Woman film shows us Amazons shooting bullets at babies. Or is it babies shooting bullets at each other?!?!?!

Even allowing for dramatic license and exaggeration, we still need to see Bullets-And-Bracelets with children. No wonder Amazons were so tough. You don't see today's kids doing that.

But..."we" play it in "infancy"? How many infants did the Amazons have? So confusing...

Aside: If Themyscira (and/or Paradise Island, since we're on Earth-2) was hidden away from the world of man for so long, where did they get revolvers? And bullets?

From World's Finest Comics #250 (1976)

Ladies and gentlemen,the Four Horsemen!

Wait...what?!?


Hitler, Mussolini, Death...and Namor?!?!

It's the second half of 1941, and while the U.S. isn't in the war yet (as evidenced by the lack of Hirohito is that quadrumvirate of destruction), Namor, like many of the Timely heroes, has had a grand old time fighting Nazis.

But continuing German/British/Russian naval battles are hurting Atlantis!

Refugees from other undersea civilizations have come, seeking the Sub-Mariner's help!


Man, some weird looking dudes live under the sea...

So, they'll unite to end the war!! Huzzah!!

But Princess Rathia has more ambitious goals...

Presenting the best use of quotation marks in Golden Age history:

"Friendlier." Snort.

Anyway, Namor is letting his nether parts do the thinking, and he dreams...

So he sets out to conquer the world.

The Human Torch tries to warn everybody...

...but it's tough in the era of fake news!

As an aside, the Torch does find time to go warn his jungle buddy Ka-Zar!

[Note: that's the Golden Age Ka-Zar, not Kevin Plunder who would end up in the Savage Land. 'nuff said!]



So, yes, the jungle character is having animals build a giant ark to protect themselves against tidal waves caused by Atlantean war machines! Because comics!!

BTW, check out Namor's new fascist fashions!

Anyway, Namor captures the Torch, and uses mind-control drugs to get him to blow up vital wartime shipping!!
Ah, but when the Torch sees the American flag, that's enough to snap him of Namor's spell!!



In the meantime, as we saw in yesterday's post, Namor managed to conquer Gibraltar, destroy the Italian navy, briefly capture Berlin, and march on Chicago with mechanical whales!!

But the Torch managed to thwart him, and now has Namor on the run. Which means, it's time for the amazingly convenient renunciation of the taking of thousands of lives!!



Let's note--there was no "spell" here. No magic, no mind control, no telepathy. She just got "friendly" with Namor and Lady Macbethed him into trying to conquer the world.

But just like a Star Wars movie, saying "Gee, I'm sorry" is enough to forgive genocide!!

He does, she's captured (and never seen again, ever), and...

"You must behave"?!?!? Talk about soft on crime!!

I wonder how often these events came up at Invaders meetings...

From Human Torch #5[b] (1941)

Well, this going to be interesting...

We're going to get mighty self-referential here, methinks.

You may recall that Timely Comics, much more than most of their competitors, were fervently anti-Nazi in their covers and stories.

So it's fascinating that, in this Timely Comic, we meet the (assuredly fictional) publisher of a line of (completely made up) anti-Nazi comics:

And then he's murdered...

And in a fairly gruesome bit:


Years before KISS or Mark Gruenwald--comics in blood!!

Well, this makes big headlines.

The publisher's brother, now running the company, vows to keep up the anti-Nazi crusade!

But the writer? Not so committed...

Fortunately, many writers in the industry were bold enough to take up the challenge!!

Well, not so much.

The Angel (a.k.a. Thomas Halloway) seizes the opportunity to pose as a comic writer, to flush out the fiend!

Now we get to see a comic script actually being written, and an editor not-really editing!


But lo and behold, the editor is murdered, too!

Well, Holloway is captured, along with the publisher and artist, and put into a death trap, because comics:

And the big reveal: the culprit is the writer!!


And so begins the most accurate depiction of the production of comics in history:






OMG!!




Well, they manage to get out of the descending death trap...and the Angel pursues the Nazi through the comic production area...







Given the death threats and outcry after Captain America punched out Hitler on the cover, you really have to wonder if any of this was sub rosa commentary on real personalities and conflicts in the industry at the time...

From Sub-Mariner Comics #2 (1941)