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...
