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Master Comics Vol 1 20

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"Bulletman: "Vampire Castle"": The synopsis for this issue has not yet been written.

Quote1 I just stepped over to tell you that the WORLD'S WORST VILLAIN is going to be in your story next month ... and I think you're going to need my help! Quote2
— Captain Marvel

Master Comics #20 is an issue of the series Master Comics (Volume 1) with a cover date of November, 1941.

Synopsis for Bulletman: "Vampire Castle"


Appearing in Bulletman: "Vampire Castle"

Featured Characters:

Supporting Characters:

Antagonists:

Other Characters:

Locations:

  • Lonely Hills
    • Vampire Castle
  • New York City
    • Police HQ
    • Undermeyer & Splithair, private detective office

Items:


Synopsis for Devil's Dagger: "The End"

One night Mr. H sends two thugs to blow up the Carterville Dam. They do some damage but the dam stays up. At the Daily Blade, working late into the night, City Editor Burton dispatches reporters Holfax and Wyman to go get the story. At Wyman's request, he also calls Pat Gleason to meet Ken out at the dam. The reporters pile into Holfax's car and rush to the crime scene, where emergency repair crews are already at work. There's an accident, and Wyman saves a worker from getting crushed by a falling beam, and when the excitement is over, Wyman notices that Holfax is missing.

Ken climbs to the top of the dam to look for Holfax, but instead finds Mr. H, berating his bungling bomb-planters for their failure. Ken quietly listens in as Mr. H sends one thug to fetch him two hand grenades, then Ken runs thru the woods to meet up with Pat, who has brought the Speed Ghost to the scene. Wyman changes into his tuxedo and cape, and soon he and his uniformed chauffeur are sprinting thru the woods back to Mr. H's position. They observe as the thug shows up with the grenades, then Mr. H. directs them to toss the bombs down onto some of the workmen. Out steps the Devil's Dagger, and throws a stiletto right thru one hood's hand, causing him to drop his grenade onto the ground, and it's been armed. In the ensuing fracas, the grenade gets kicked into the reservoir, but Pat gets knocked out, and at the end of it, Mr. H. still has one grenade. While he's waving it around and making threats, the Devil's Dagger knocks it out of his hand with a second thrown dagger, then steps in and punches him out. Under a bald wig and padded suit, Mr. H turns out to be Holfax, the police reporter.

The Devil's Dagger and Pat take Holfax back to the Daily Blade office, where he tells Burton the whole story, and ends by revealing, and retiring, his secret identity.

Appearing in Devil's Dagger: "The End"

Featured Characters

Supporting Characters:

  • Pat Gleason, pugilist and chauffeur (Final appearance)
  • Burton, City Editor, Daily Blade (Final appearance)

Antagonists:

  • Mr. H, secretly Holfax, Police Reporter, Daily Blade (Final appearance)
    • thugs

Other Characters:

  • Kelly, Foreman
    • Emergency Repair Crew

Locations:

  • Carterville (Final appearance)
    • Carterville Dam (damaged)

Vehicles:

  • Holfax's Red Sedan
  • Dagger's Blue "Speed Ghost" (Final appearance)

Synopsis for Minute Man: "Illyria's Air Raids"


Appearing in Minute Man: "Illyria's Air Raids"

Featured Characters:

Supporting Characters:

Antagonists:

  • Illyria, "Queen of All Spies"
    • her henchmen: Fritz, others

Locations:

  • secret Army airfield, somewhere in America
  • secret enemy airfield, at the foot of the Rockies

Vehicles:

  • Experimental Bomber (stolen)
  • Regular Army Pursuit Planes (some destroyed)
  • Best Army Pursuit Plane (Destroyed)

Synopsis for El Carim: "Little Men of the Mountain"


Appearing in El Carim: "Little Men of the Mountain"

Featured Characters

Supporting Characters:

  • Gladys, his assistant

Antagonists:

  • Sacred Flea (Dies)

Other Characters:

  • Catskill Dwarfs ("Little Men of the Mountain")

Locations:

Vehicles:

  • Carim's Airplane (Destroyed)

Synopsis for Captain Venture and the Planet Princess: "King Leon and Chief Zogg"


Appearing in Captain Venture and the Planet Princess: "King Leon and Chief Zogg"

Featured Characters:

Supporting Characters:

  • Tazon, new King of Djung

Antagonists:

  • Leon, King of Djung
    • his legions and minions
  • Chief Zogg
    • his Goat Men

Other Characters:

  • Seer from Kydonia

Locations:

Vehicles:

  • Leon's Rocket Flyer

Synopsis for Companions Three: "Fight, Frolic, or Football"


Appearing in Companions Three: "Fight, Frolic, or Football"

Featured Characters

Antagonists:

  • Joe Kift
    • his hoods

Other Characters:

  • Lottie Logan
    • her Pro Football Team, the Raiders

Locations:

  • Westerville

Synopsis for Buck Jones, Frontier Marshal: "Valejo"


Appearing in Buck Jones, Frontier Marshal: "Valejo"

Featured Characters:

Supporting Characters:

  • Mesquite Mike
  • Streak, Buck's Horse

Antagonists:

  • Valejo
    • two hench bandits

Other Characters:

  • old prospector (Dies)
  • Texas Ike
    • crowd of citizens of Big Savage

Locations:

Synopsis for Zoro, The Mystery Man: "Spavento"

Zoro's attending a charity football game at Chicago's Soldier Field, but suddenly has a "strong premonition" and gets up to investigate something (Cheeta somehow allowed at his side during the game). He catches gangsters stealing the take from the box office, but they flee to a waiting plane, with Zoro and his feline companion both hanging onto the tailfins!

Eventually it lands at the Catskills home of mastermind Spavento. Zoro confronts them, and seems to magically disappear with the money in the middle of their brawl. He reappears outside, prompting one of Spavento's men to eagerly charge Zoro only to go off a cliff, having run right through an illusion. After seeing off the crooks, Zoro makes to return the money to the charitable cause for which it was intended.

Appearing in Zoro, The Mystery Man: "Spavento"

Featured Characters:

Supporting Characters:

  • Cheeta, Zoro's Cheetah

Antagonists:

  • Spavento
    • his gang: Plugger, Lefty, Mug, others

Locations:

Vehicles:

  • Spavento's Getaway Airplane

Notes

  • Buck Jones: Credit line says "Written and Starring Buck Jones, Famous Movie Star"
  • Bulletman gets head-konked with a bludgeon by a vampire, but that never works on him.
    • On the last page of this story, Captain Marvel shows up, announces that he knows Bulletman's secret identity, and warns that next month's story will feature the WORLD'S WORST VILLAIN, who will turn out to be Captain Nazi.
  • Captain Venture gets knocked unconscious with a thrown club.
  • Last issue for Devil's Dagger, who reveals his secret identity and retires from masked adventuring, in the final panel of this story.
    • The villain, Mr. H, is bald with a fringe, and pudgy His secret identity, Holfax, has hair and is athletic. Mr. H also changes clothes and wears a "The Clock"-style full face mask, when dealing with his henchmen.
  • Minute Man gets head-konked unconscious one more time.
    • In this story, enemy agents conduct bombing raids against several midwestern cities, using a stolen, experimental, American bomber. Afterward, it's never mentioned again.
  • Zoro, the Mystery Man and his cheetah Cheeta grabbed onto the tail assembly of an airplane, in Chicago, and rode it all the way to the Catskill Mountains in New York, where it safely landed.
    • Zoro kills two thugs with his sword cane, and his big cat kills a third one.
  • Also featured in this issue of Master Comics were:
    • Famous Blitzkriegs of the Past: "Julius Caesar"
    • "Heroic Bum" (text story) by Carl Formes



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