Stupid Comics

Mary Shelley's creation of Frankenstein has been featured in several different comic book universes including DC and Marvel, but the more comedic version of the stitchpunk science project shown in Prize Comics was either getting into slapstick situations or being hunted down like The Fugitive. This version of Frankenstein was constantly being stalked by the self-important vigilante Denny Dugan whose professional name is Bulldog Denny. His beef with the monster is that Denny is relative of the original Dr. Frankenstein and wants to clean his family's ledger by terminating his distant foster cousin. As Bulldog, Denny wore a shirt with a cartoon dog face on it, making him look like the Punisher if he was more of a canine lover. He so far failed to capture Frankenstein, so in Issue #24 he decides to assemble the Prize Comics' good guy regulars to send an entire team of superheroes after the creature. This roster includes Doctor Frost, Green Lama, Black Owl, Yank, Doodle, and th...

Canada had some unusual characters running in their wartime comic books like a reincarnated Inuit goddess in Nelvana, but an aviator vigilante was something not even covered by American publishers. Where heroic pilots like Skyboy and Captain Midnight were common, the distinctly named Mono the Air Cobra featured in Rocket Comics was written by Ted Ross and drawn by the rare female artist Shirley Fortune. The character was like a Green Hornet of the skies as he was a considered a bad guy by both the police and the underworld. When he wasn't busting up Japanese drug runners, Mr. Air Cobra was hated by his archenemy, Jet Condor, a gang leader who Mono has to enter the territory of when in downtown looking to repair his plane's wing. Mono of course blends right into any normal crowd while wearing a shirt with a giant letter "M" on it, but his incognito crumbles away when he runs into an unnamed Irish copper who gives him info on Condor that the big boss is behind bootlegge...

Fiction House's Jumbo Comics had one of its standouts featuring character Stuart Taylor in a segment titled Weird Tales Of The Supernatural, which is very odd because it had nothing to do with the supernatural but was instead sci-fi themed. Jack Kirby first created this ongoing story about the assistant of scientist Dr. Hayward who invented a time machine which Stuart would frequently use to go back to different points in time much like Mr. Peabody. Instead of a little boy for a sidekick, Stuart was usually joined at the hip to Hayward's lovely daughter Laura who would always become jealous when he made out with past temptresses like Cleopatra(which he does in two separate occasions). There was a 3-part story where Stuart Taylor keeps going from 1946 to 1975 in one his few missions into the future. He knocks phony agent R.J. Norton into the time machine sending him ahead three decades. Stuart finds that all the buildings float above the ground and everybody dresses like it is a...

Pelican Publications was a strange enough company name with their singular release of Green Giant Comics in 1940 starring a size-shifting superhero, but even stranger was its shorter feature of Master Mystic. Similar to Stardust the Space Wizard, Master Mystic is someone mysteriously given cosmic powers that let him do whatever the plot has room for with no limit on his power, although this hooded hero somehow got his godlike status simply by utilizing "mind over matter". If Mr. M got his abilities from dropping LSD or sheer will, the story doesn't tell us. The story opens with him flying around downtown and spooking supposed evil doers by using his super-yelling power shouting at them to shape up when they are just walking around in broad daylight. Cut to Slavonia where the mad scientist Rango was still fuming over losing a recent attempt to take over Europe, an act they comb over quickly to get on with this 6-page story, even though you would think that a criminal geniu...