Stupid Comics

The Flame was one of Fox Feature Syndicate's most popular superheroes, so much that he was one of their Big 3, as well as in his own title. This pyrokinetic protector fought very colorful characters, the most tragic as well as strangest was known as The Octopus. Aside from being a name incorporated by at least a dozen other comic book villains, The Octopus was not someone with a Cthulhu fetish or robotic tentacles. but a chartreuse-skinned freak with three arms. This meant he wore a top with a trio of sleeves which apparently made him sore enough that he decided to become a crime lord after terminating all the city's racketeers. His latest target is the uncle of The Flame's current girlfriend Linda Dale, a former gangster who after first escaping Octopus years ago ends up getting killed by him. The Flame goes after Octopus, but manages to capture the hero, despite being conveniently freed by Linda now using Flame's powers as his new partner Flame Girl. Despite having a ...

Where Robin or Kid Flash were junior partners to their headliner heroes, they at least had their own uniform and codename. In 1941, Holyoke Publishing started their own title for Batman ripoff Cat-Man featuring the non-masked hero known as The Deacon, a former burglar that disguised himself as a preacher to fight crime from an abandoned church. Dean Denton manages to hide out in the open, as does his sidekick Mickey Mathews who gets taken in by the Deacon after being chased by some gangsters. Mickey has no secret identity even though there weren't too many other bright-eyed blonde boys that were as chipper as him running around pre-WWII America, but he was fortunate enough to actually grow from a boy to a teenager during his 5-year run. When he wasn't being the Deacon's boy wonder, he meets up with Katie Conn at a summer camp run by Nazis, and his new girlfriend only happens to be Cat-Man's sidekick Kitten with her own superhero garb. The sidekicks form a pre-Teen Titan...

There must have been a shortage of umbrellas in the late 1940s as the All-Weather, All-Purpose Cover-All was promoted in several comic books. Surplus Sales tried to appeal to couples not smart enough to get out of the rain by pushing this transparent miniature tent top meant to be used by two people simultaneously. A huge variety of uses await you while taking it to ball games, picnics, fishing, and various other outdoor events that you think would be cancelled on account of the rain. Illustrations tried to show how appealing it would be to go for a canoe ride of taking the baby out for a walk during monsoon season, least of all not for a romantic night on the town while the weather is pitchforking you. As part of the U.S. Government surplus price is concerned, you would think that they could just hand out garbage bags with eyeholes instead of this raw deal. Quoting that it can easily be folded up to fit in your pocket makes you wonder how huge a bulge in your pants it would leave if i...