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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...

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