So confident was Minoan Publishing Company in 1953 that they gave their new character his own title, The Purple Claw, which lasted for three whole issues. Dr. Johnathon Weir was an American in a plane crash in 1943 Africa where he befriends a mystic man by helping him cure nearby villagers from a sickness. For his efforts, Weir is given a spiffy metal glove known as the Purple Claw that endows its wearer with superstrength and heat rays. Weir decides to call himself from that now on, sort of like Green Lantern going by the name of his weapon. Weir spends the next decade fighting bad guys like Dr. Gool with his army of zombies, satanic gun moll Brima Stone, the spider-controlling Countess Arachni, giants, snake women, and a killer snowman. Most of Purple Claw's opponents were supernatural in nature, making Dr. Weir one of the first recurring monster hunters in comics. The part of Purple Claw's origin that is truly stupid though is it's another story of a white person gaining abilities from an ancient magic in a foreign country that none of the locals seem to be able to access. Apparently, only white people were allowed to have superpowers during the Golden Age.
So confident was Minoan Publishing Company in 1953 that they gave their new character his own title, The Purple Claw, which lasted for three whole issues. Dr. Johnathon Weir was an American in a plane crash in 1943 Africa where he befriends a mystic man by helping him cure nearby villagers from a sickness. For his efforts, Weir is given a spiffy metal glove known as the Purple Claw that endows its wearer with superstrength and heat rays. Weir decides to call himself from that now on, sort of like Green Lantern going by the name of his weapon. Weir spends the next decade fighting bad guys like Dr. Gool with his army of zombies, satanic gun moll Brima Stone, the spider-controlling Countess Arachni, giants, snake women, and a killer snowman. Most of Purple Claw's opponents were supernatural in nature, making Dr. Weir one of the first recurring monster hunters in comics. The part of Purple Claw's origin that is truly stupid though is it's another story of a white person gaining abilities from an ancient magic in a foreign country that none of the locals seem to be able to access. Apparently, only white people were allowed to have superpowers during the Golden Age.
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