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How Weird was Weird Comics? Part 2

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 Part Two , it’s the futuristic Blast Bennet , the insidious Doctor Mortal , the explosive Dynamite Thor , the undersea adventurer Navy Jones and barnstormer Swoop Curtiss … And they seem to be doing a great job. BLAST BENNET by Spencer Allan Appears in iss...

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