In Detective Comics #168 (December 1950), the Batman reminisces to a college class in criminal deduction about the Red Hood, a criminal that Batman failed to catch ten years ago. In their final encounter, Batman had chased him from a playing card factory and the Red Hood dove into a vat of chemicals to escape. […]
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The last appearance of the Justice Society for more than ten years occurs in All-Star Comics #57 (December 1950) with “The Mystery of the Vanishing Detectives”. It’s mostly a bland story about a crime syndicate boss named The Key, but I did find it interesting that a panel featuring Wonder Woman’s invisible plane describes it […]
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Batman #63 (December 1950) features an outlandish new rogue for Batman’s gallery: Killer Moth. Killer Moth is an ex-convict who somehow works himself into high society as “Cameron van Cleer”. He then proceeds to develop his villainous alter-ego as a counterpoint to Batman, complete with a garish costume and a Moth Car. Cameron even makes […]
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Wonder Woman #45 (November 1950), includes a re-telling of Wonder Woman’s origin. It describes in detail how Aphrodite awarded Queen Hippolyte a magic girdle, and how Hercules tricked her into giving up the girdle, rendering the Amazons helpless against Hercules’ army. Hippolyte makes a plea to Aphrodite, who agrees to help the Amazons this one […]
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In Weird Science #5 (October 1950), a scientist gets an idea to create a fictitious threat to the Earth to unite countries in “The Last War on Earth”. Ozymandias was not the first to come up with this idea. Professor Harlow drops an atom bomb from space onto Middleburg and destroys the town of three […]
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Another horrifying tale in the Haunt of Fear #4 (October 1950), in which a ghoulish hunchback’s hump is discovered to be an evil Siamese twin that demands to eat the flesh of freshly buried corpses.
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In All-Star Comics #56 (October 1950), the Justice Society of America take a trip into the 31st century by hitching a ride on a tour bus from the future. It seems like the future is plagued by chameleon creatures who can masquerade as anyone. The natural form of a Chameleon has pointy ears just like […]
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In Action Comics #151 (October 1950), Superman has his first official villain team-up: Mr. Mxyztplk recruits Luthor and the Prankster to take on Superman. The trio employ “plastic proxies”, basically simulated humans to fool Superman.
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In Batman #62 (October 1950), the Catwoman makes another appearance, but this time a back-story is given when she suffers a head trauma while trying to save Batman from death during a crime spree: Catwoman is Selina Kyle, a former flight attendant who is suffering from amnesia all these years. The new head trauma booted […]
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Timely (Marvel) Comics debuted War Comics #1 (September 1950). While most war comics of the time are primarily propaganda vehicles, the first story is particularly heavy-handed. A young soldier spends his time complaining to his fellow officer about why the U.S. is involved in the Korean War. Of course by the end of the story, […]
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