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Master Comics #16 is an issue of the series Master Comics (Volume 1) with a cover date of July, 1941.
Synopsis for Bulletman: "Von Krantz"
Appearing in Bulletman: "Von Krantz"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Von Krantz (wears a monocle) (Dies)
- his Fifth Columnists
Other Characters:
- Professor Miller (Dies)
Locations:
- New York City
- Fifth Avenue
- Police HQ
- Western United States
- several urban industrial centers (Destroyed)
- Western Mountains
- Hidden Cave
- Los Angeles, California
Items:
- Gravity Regulator Helmets
- Miller's Cannon, shoots 300 miles
Vehicles:
- Von Krantz's big bombers, at least five (at least two are destroyed)
Synopsis for The Devil's Dagger: "The Death House Jailbreak"
Appearing in The Devil's Dagger: "The Death House Jailbreak"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Editor Burton, Daily Blade
- Pat Gleason, Wyman's assistant
Antagonists:
- Mr. H
- Killer McCarthy
- three co-escapees
Locations:
- Carterville Area
- Mountains
- State Prison
- Daily Blade Office
- Mountains
Items:
- Devil's Dagger's Dagger
Vehicles:
- Wyman's Speed Ghost roadster
- Mr. H's Scouting Plane
- Mr. H's Roadster
Synopsis for El Carim: "Olbaid the Evil"
Appearing in El Carim: "Olbaid the Evil"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Gladys
- James, Chauffeur
Antagonists:
- Olbaid
- his pythons and constrictors
- his gang:
- Snort
- two python wranglers
- Roper Pete
- Rifle Ralph
- Knife Thrower
Other Characters:
- three cops
Locations:
- Old Sunnyside Park
- Cavern Hideout
Items:
- Olbaid's "Snake Bath" (turns people into snakes, and vice versa)
Vehicles:
- El Carim's Chauffeured Limousine
Synopsis for Minute Man: "The July Fourth Doom Plot"
Appearing in Minute Man: "The July Fourth Doom Plot"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- General Milton
- U.S. Army Intelligence, G-2
- Sarge
- U.S. Army Intelligence, G-2
Antagonists:
- Illyria, the Queen Spy
- Marzak
Other Characters:
- Prison Nurse
Locations:
- State Prison
- Army Base
- Big City
Vehicles:
- Illyria's Bomber (Destroyed)
Synopsis for Captain Venture and the Planet Princess: "The Leon-Frigio Alliance"
Appearing in Captain Venture and the Planet Princess: "The Leon-Frigio Alliance"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Tazon, the Scientist
Antagonists:
- King Leon, the Djunga
- King Frigio
- his many troops
Other Characters:
- King Carl of Rolan
- Chief Guard of Rolan
Locations:
- Asteroid Djunga
- Ice Planet
- Planet Rolan
Items:
- Frigio's Ice-shell Cannons
- Tazon's Vacuo-dynamic Thermo Machine
Vehicles:
- Venture's Space Ship
- Frigio's vast armada (many ships destroyed)
Synopsis for Companions Three: "Adventure Above All"
Appearing in Companions Three: "Adventure Above All"
Featured Characters
- Companions Three
- Don
- Nifty
- Spike
Animals:
- Giganto the Gorilla
Antagonists:
- Peabody (Dies)
Other Characters:
- Princess Ivara of Cabarro
- Baron (Dies)
Locations:
- big U.S. city
- "Greatest Show on Earth" Circus
- Cabarro
- Principal City of Cabarro
- Ravine of Ravarez
Items:
- Crown Jewels of Cabarro
Vehicles:
- transatlantic airliner
Synopsis for Buck Jones, Frontier Marshal: "Pedro the Mex"
Appearing in Buck Jones, Frontier Marshal: "Pedro the Mex"
Featured Characters
Animals:
- Streak, Jones's horse
Antagonists:
- Pedro the Mex
- his drovers
- Rosita
Other Characters:
- Sam Blake, rancher
- Deeds Recorder
Locations:
- American Old West
- Big Savage County, Arizona
- Palace Saloon
- Palace Saloon
- Big Savage County, Arizona
Synopsis for Zoro, the Mystery Man: "The Amazon Witch Doctor"
At a South American rubber plantation, Zoro finds a horned fellow named "Mumbo Jumbo" promising to curse the native workers if they drain the sap of the sacred trees. Recognizing a significant threat in Zoro's presence, the horned villain attacks him, but flees when he realizes he's no match for Zoro and Cheeta. After a monocled fellow kills some of the workers with spears from a battery-powered catapult, Mumbo Jumbo proclaims this was his doing, and riles his believers up into killing Zoro, the plantation owner and destroying the plantation itself is necessary to restore peace.
When the natives attack, the plantation, supposedly at the behest of their god, Zoro pretends to have godly powers too, demonstrated by Cheeta seeming to glow with fire. The animal kills Mumbo Jumbo, who's unmasked as Graynor, a former employee who'd been caught stealing. Zoro then washes off the phosphorescent paint he used to make Cheeta seem otherworldly.
Appearing in Zoro, the Mystery Man: "The Amazon Witch Doctor"
Featured Characters:
Animals:
- Cheeta, Zoro's cheetah
Antagonists:
- Graynor (wears a monocle), as "Mumbo Jumbo" (Dies)
- his two spearmen
- electrical engineer
Other Characters:
- Burns, Rubber Planter
- Plantation Workers
Locations:
- Amazon Rainforest
- Burns's Plantation
Notes
- Buck Jones: Credit line says "Acted in and written by Buck Jones"
- Caption: "In those early days, a recorded deed was final." Also no cars or telephone wires or railroad tracks seen.
- Some of the language used by Marshall Jones, and others, is downright rude. Comic book stories from 1941 may depict some ethnic and racial prejudices that were once commonplace in American society. Such depictions were wrong then and are wrong today. While not representing the DC Comics view of today's society, these stories are being indexed and summarized as they were originally created, because to do otherwise would be the same as claiming these prejudices never existed.
- Bulletman: Several cities in the western United States are attacked by giant bombers, destroying some important industrial centers. Afterward this is never mentioned again.
- Captain Venture is a chapter in an ongoing serial; this issue's other stories all stand alone.
- Companions Three: Cabarro in 1941 is the only country at peace in a war-torn region, a mountain nation ruled by a hereditary monarchy. Cabarro soldiers wear antique military uniforms
- El Carim pins an assassin to a wooden column with a sword poked through both of his palms.
- Olbaid spelled backward is "Diablo".
- Minute Man packs a concealed handgun.
- This story takes place on July 4th
- Also appearing in this issue of Master Comics were:
- Full-page ad for the Giant Whiz Contest
- Larry Dean: "The Flying Fool" (text story) by LaRac Semrof
- Amazing Oddities: "Jumbo, Basilisk, Black Widow, Walking Fish"
- Full-page ad for Adventures of Captain Marvel serial from Republic Studios
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