How Weird was Weird Comics? Part 3
For twenty issues, between April 1940 and January 1942, Fox Publications released an anthology series titled Weird Comics . The stories inside those pages were light on internal continuity, represented a wide variety of genres — including westerns, sci-fi and jungle action — and were produced almost exclusively under pen names (although creators Don Rico, Louis Cazeneuve and Joe Simon, to name a few, have their fingerprints over broad swaths of the titles). There were seventeen features across the lifespan of Weird, some better than the others — but the real question is “How weird were they?” If Weird Comics is going to promise weird comics, then they better deliver! In this conclusion, it’s the dashing Dart , the energetic Dynamo , the soaring Eagle , the savage Marga The Panther Woman , and the supernatural Voodoo Man … THE DART by Jerry Arbus Issues 5-20 Sounds good, be back by lunch. Terror of the Ancient Roman racket...
