Stupid Comics

Star Trek writer Theodore Sturgeon was the author of a short story titled Killdozer for a 1944 sci-fi pulp magazine that got its own cheesy made-for-television movie in 1974. However, the first adaptation was a segment in Ziff-Davis' Amazing Adventures comics by anonymous artists that spin the original idea of prehistoric radiation bringing a construction vehicle to life. An unnamed island in the middle of a lake sees scientist Mark Dane for some reason planning to gift a bulldozer with artificial intelligence. His fiance Wendy and assistant Ralph question Mark's sanity in a big spat which calls of the wedding. The bulldozer mysteriously switches itself on that Mark takes advantage of by coning the machine into bumping off his ex-girlfriend and her new beau. What follows is Wendy and Ralph spending the next four pages in their various attempts to escape the treaded terminator as it trashes a dump truck and wins a duel with a steam shovel. The young lovers make their way to the ...

When Chip Goodman didn't get the gig as publisher of Marvel after his father Martin stepped down, the family set up their own company labeled Atlas/Seaboard. They hired Jonah Hex writer Michael Fleisher along with artist Ernie Colon to create their first supernatural superhero. The Grim Ghost was a dandy highwayman in colonial America whose relationship with a debutante got him sent to Hell for his earthly deeds, but Satan takes a shine to the masked bandit and sends him back to the living world to increase the afterlife's population. The hiccup comes from the fact that Beelzebub warps him to modern day 1970s where he is several centuries out of date, meaning he needed to spend several months learning the latest disco moves in order to fit in. Grim Ghost rode around the city on a flying horse and used his powers to change bad guy bullets into confetti. When he is not out collecting more of Satan's little helpers, Grim Ghost gets teamed up with his ex-girlfriend that caused ...

The power of positive thinking can translate into getting actual supernatural abilities as Adolph Krimetz was mocked as a youngster for having wolfish features by teasing military schoolmates that caused him to commit manslaughter on one of them. Adolph ran away to live alone in the mountains for the next two decades where he somehow gained the actual gifts of a wolfman. Whether he was already a lycanthrope before going into hiding or he just got bit by one later on is never told, but Adolph now sets himself out as a bloodthirsty supervillain tagged as Were-Wolf. The Big Bad goes after his old tormentors now in positions of pre-WWII American army. This gets the attention of the patriotic Lash Lightning who is another white guy that got powers from ancient Egyptian magic. Lash's abilities to fly, shoot electricity, and enhanced strength leave him at an oddly even fighting chance against Mr. Wolf as his lightning can temporarily turn Adolph back into a human. Were-Wolf is super-stron...