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Master Comics Vol 1 21

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"Bulletman: "The Coming of Captain Nazi"": Hitler sends Captain Nazi to the United States of America to deal with the American superheroes. Captain Marvel and Bulletman team up against him. Captain Nazi is defeated but escapes, to wreak [[Whiz_Comics_Vol_1_25#Synopsis_for_Captain_Marvel:_.22The_

Quote1 I'm in on this too, Bulletman! I too accept the challenge of Captain Nazi! Quote2
— Captain Marvel

Master Comics #21 is an issue of the series Master Comics (Volume 1) with a cover date of December, 1941.

Synopsis for Bulletman: "The Coming of Captain Nazi"

Hitler sends Captain Nazi to the United States of America to deal with the American superheroes. Captain Marvel and Bulletman team up against him. Captain Nazi is defeated but escapes, to wreak further murderous mischief.

Appearing in Bulletman: "The Coming of Captain Nazi"

Featured Characters:

Supporting Characters:

Antagonists:

Other Characters:

  • subway train engineer
  • three carnival workers (Dies)
  • boy hostage

Locations:

Items:


Synopsis for Minute-Man: "The Black Dragon Society"

The Black Dragon Society wages a terroristic campaign all across the USA, sinking ships, wrecking trains, and assassinating officers. Private Weston spots one murder team and follows them to their waterfront lair, smacks around a roomful of them, gets captured, escapes, and reports to his boss General Milton. G-2 raids the Society's base but they've already shifted to a new one on the other side of the river.

The Black Dragons abduct General Milton and three other generals, and torture them for a day, while Minute Man is searching for them. Minute Man seemingly gets captured again, but outfights another roomful of assassins, knocks out their leader, and frees the generals.

Appearing in Minute-Man: "The Black Dragon Society"

Featured Characters:

Supporting Characters:

Antagonists:

Other Characters:

  • series of U.S. military officers (Murdered)
  • General Thompson
  • General Hood
  • General Stevens

Locations:

  • Washington, D.C. Area
    • Waterfront
      • under-harbor cavern spy base
      • back-up spy base
    • G-2 Headquarters
    • Officers' Club

Vessels:

  • spies' motor launch
  • U.S. troop ship

Synopsis for El Carim: "The Curse of the Balandrachu"


Appearing in El Carim: "The Curse of the Balandrachu"

Featured Characters:

Antagonists:

  • Balandrachu
    • his assassins and guards

Other Characters:

  • Agnes Chamberlain
  • Mr. Chamberlain
  • Mrs. Chamberlain

Locations:

Items:

  • El Carim's Magic Crystal Ball
  • vial of Balandrachu's Tears of Gratitude

Synopsis for Captain Venture and the Planet Princess: "The Goat People and the Dragon"


Appearing in Captain Venture and the Planet Princess: "The Goat People and the Dragon"

Featured Characters:

Supporting Characters:

  • King Tazon

Antagonists:

  • King Leon
  • King Zogg
    • his Goat Men

Animals:

  • Arena Dragon (Dies)

Locations:

Vehicles:

  • Leon's Flagship
    • his War Fleet

Synopsis for Companions Three: "The Peacemakers"


Appearing in Companions Three: "The Peacemakers"

Featured Characters

Antagonists:

  • Warmonger Assassins:
    • Mimosa Desk Manager
    • Mimosa Bell Captain
    • many more murderers

Other Characters:

  • Peacemaker Society Agent (Dies)
  • Prince Ikko, Peacemaker Society Head

Locations:

Synopsis for Buck Jones, Frontier Marshal: "The Landers-Benson Range War"


Appearing in Buck Jones, Frontier Marshal: "The Landers-Benson Range War"

Featured Characters

Supporting Characters:

  • Mesquite Mike, Chief Deputy

Antagonists:

  • Benson, rancher
    • his outfit (one wounded)

Other Characters:

  • Landers, rancher
    • his outfit: Slim, others (one wounded)

Locations:

Synopsis for Zoro the Mystery Man: "Black Giant, the Man From the Grave"

Zoro receives a message from the owners of cotton plantations down south asking for his help, having received warnings of a terrible, supernatural "wailing death". He encounters the "wailing death" when he hears an eerie sound just before a man who happens to be wearing an identical outfit falls dead, and Zoro's sure it was no accident. Meeting with the plantation owners, Zoro soon runs into Black Giant, a negro worker who died a month before but has risen to terrorize the cotton farms. Black Giant is no joke, easily surviving Zoro's best fistwork before escaping. One of the plantation owners, Wheeler, has gone along with whoever's threatening them and bought five head of zombie workers to pick his cotton crop. Zoro has a suspicion and makes one of them eat salted peanuts, and with his hunch confirmed, has Wheeler and the other owners follow him out into the swamp to disinter Black Giant's grave. Wheeler protests, and Zoro tells the others why: those aren't zombie workers, they're regular negro workers who've been drugged to ignore pain and exhaustion. The Black Giant he fought isn't the real dead one, it's his twin brother. Zoro realized the truth when he fed one of the zombies salted peanuts and nothing happened; he happens to know real zombies die if they swallow salt. Exposed, Wheeler tries to kill Zoro with the "wailing death", strangulation with a whip, but is knocked down and captured by Zoro's loyal feline companion.

Appearing in Zoro the Mystery Man: "Black Giant, the Man From the Grave"

Featured Characters:

Supporting Characters:

  • Cheeta, Zoro's cheetah

Antagonists:

  • Black Giant
  • Wheeler, planter

Other Characters:

  • John Carlson, planter
    • Craig, overseer

Locations:

  • Carlson Plantation, Cottonville

Notes

  • Published monthly by Fawcett Publications, Inc.
  • Unconfirmed editorial credit attributed to Ed "France" Herron.
  • Buck Jones's horse is not named in this episode.
    • GCD lists the horse as "Silver," which may be wrong. Or not; Hopalong Cassidy had a horse named "Silver" too.
    • Earlier in this series, the horse was named "Streak," and at the end he was named "Thunder." In many episodes the horse is never named at all.
  • Bulletman:
    • "The Coming of Captain Nazi" is reprinted in The Shazam! Archives Vol. 4.
    • Captain Marvel's guest appearance in the Bulletman feature is a rare event, in a golden age comic book.
    • On the last page, Captain Nazi had left a taunting note, challenging Captain Marvel: "You'd better keep your snooping nose in Whiz Comics, Captain Marvel... Because I'm coming over there next month to beat your brains out!" This was an even more rare event, for a storyline to expand into two monthly anthologies. As advertised, this crossover continued into Whiz Comics #25.
    • Bulletgirl does not appear except in her civilian identity of Susan Kent.
  • Companions Three"
    • Unconfirmed art credit attributed to Kin Platt.
  • El Carim kills an attacking swordsman, with one punch.
  • Also featured in this issue of Master Comics were:
    • full-page black-&-white ad for the Captain Marvel Picture Puzzle
    • 1/3-page ad for the current issue of Bulletman.
    • full page recruiting ad for the Captain Marvel Club
    • 1/3-page ad for the current issue of Minute Man.
    • "V stands for Victory" (text story) by Juan Lopez
    • 1/3-page ad for the current issue of Xmas Comics #1. Ad copy touts "365 pages in full color," right next to the issue's reproduced cover, which only boasts of "324 Pages!"
    • full-page black-&-white ad for the Live Wire Library, 192-page "miniature novels" featuring Captain Marvel, Minute Man, Bulletman, and Spy Smasher.

Trivia

  • Cover date is December 1941, so this is the last pre-war issue of Master Comics.


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