Stupid Comics

Camilla started out as something from an old movie serial that eventually evolved into a female Tarzan rip-off. Her first incarnation is the Queen of the Lost Empire that is discovered by nosy explorer Jon Dale in the middle of Africa and is in charge of a viking kingdom. Dale finds the village where Camilla welcomes him to take part in their festival, complete with not fireworks, but human sacrifices! Dale manages to sabotage the ancient Norse electronic murder machine allowing him to escape which results in this Camilla's death. The next issue of Jungle Comics has Camilla as being a blonde white descendent of Genghis Khan and Queen of the "Lost City" which is found by Captain John Stanley. Here, Camilla's subjects are armed with radio guns that they either put together from ancient technology or stolen from materials in one of their caravan heists. Stanley refuses to become Camilla's pet boyfriend, so she sentences him to death in one of their flexodium torpedoe...

Skepticism doesn't even begin to describe this comics ad from the Silver Age! Getting 200 toys and games for a single buck probably seems like an amazing deal, especially since it was sponsored by the Amelia Earhart Foundation with proceeds supposedly going toward benefitting children's leukemia research. The entire package is advertised as coming with toy vehicles, dolls, puzzles and figurines made of plastic, metal, and rubber which were the basics for kids' disposable entertainment back then. Even though they are labeled as being "reproductions" of these kind of toys which makes you wonder if they were some of the world's first advertised bootleg toys. All this plus a free bonus record of various children's songs provided by the Pride Record Co. with each package of which you could get up to 5 at a time giving you a max of a thousand toys per order. You would think that a full set of this would set you for all your nephew/niece's birthday gifts for ...

Tons of heroes made their premiere before or during World War II after which became hard for them to get into until the Silver Age. Australia broke convention though with their title character Grey Domino which was first released in 1951. Hugh Standish was a commando for the British army during the war who after bashing Nazis took on a new occupation by using the skills he acquired in the military to become the masked vigilante Grey Domino. This hooded hero uses the old world term for a cloaked masquerade and went with the stunning color of grey, but he keeps up the domino theme while trying to keep peace between nations by thumbing them under the domino theory. Like most characters coming out at the tail end of the Golden Age, Grey Domino had his work cut out for him in trying to gather any attention even though Australia was just then breaking into the superhero comics market. Our mystery man would sometimes get help from his part-time sidekick Brutus who was your wonder dog placehol...