“Dude, what did you have for lunch?”
Amazing Man Comics #9
Comic Corporation Of America (February, 1940)
So the previous issue wasn’t all that great. We’ll see what this issue does, but seeing as I have to keep going to old reviews just to remember it, I’m starting to see how these never went very far. Stuffing so many stories into one book is not making them very memorable. They don’t have time to make the characters interesting beyond the scenario. Let’s see if this issue is an improvement.
Aman The Amazing Man by Bill Everett
Long story short, Aman gets nabbed by the Nazis after stealing one of their planes to bomb his way to Berlin, only to run out of bombs. Injured, even the Great Question just says “stop sucking and come home”, so Aman escapes the Nazis and blows up their facility. I wonder if includes the nurse who said she saw him training in Tibet once, as both nurses in the story find him attractive. It’s kind of strange to see him be so bad at this that even his enemy is telling him he’s embarrassing everyone who trained him.
King Of The South Seas by Harold Hughes
So it turns out King is actually the amnesiac son what’s his name has been looking for. King falls for the girl in the party and she talks him out of being a pirate. King’s men see his partner knock him out and assume he’s dead as so goes after all the white men in revenge. The partner stays to face them instead of the English court and King wakes up from his unconsciousness and amnesia because the cure for a blow to the head in fiction is always another blow to the head. In real life this is a very stupid thing to do. I don’t even care enough to remember the previous part, so I don’t care about this.
Jungle Battles by Robert Louis Golden
Some guy hunting dinosaurs has a member of his party attacked by a gorilla. He saves the party member and the gorilla after the gorilla tries to kill our lone white man, fights a stegosaurus I guess, and now he and the gorilla are friends? Someone packed way too much story into three pages and the end result is a mess.
The Iron Skull by Burgo
The hero from the far future of 1970 returns. And yet it still feels like World War II because guys with German accents are pulling rocket planes around the world out of the sky. Stuff happens but I’m not really invested in it. Outside of one guy wanting to find his friend, whose death holds no weight, nobody is worth being interested in except the Skull, and that’s only because he’s the title character and only survivor.
The Magician From Mars by John Guinta & Michael Mirando
During this story the scans get a bit blurry or something’s wrong with my eyesight today. An elemental uses an amateur pianist to enter the world and go on a rampage. Our magic girl (not to be confused with a magic girl) can’t beat him physically but she can use her magic to chase him off and track down the professor controlling him. Evil prof seems like an unnecessary extra. Jane versus the one elemental would have been enough. It’s not a very interesting story.
Minimidget The Super Midget by John Kolb
I can’t read the middle initial, but the scans get better during the story. It’s another tale for our action figure sized heroes. Bank robbers force Minimidget to help them rob a bank by holding Ritty hostage. Somehow this is still rather boring for me. Maybe I’m just spoiled for comics that added more subplot, character moments, and anything besides by the numbers storytelling.
Chuck Hardy In The Land Beneath The Sea by Frank Thomas
Four armed guys grab Jerry to be the king’s bride, but she disagrees with a knee to the gut so he orders her sacrifices to the steam god. Chuck has to stop them, Oxan takes one of their heads as a prize for some reasons. Now they can get the fire home they were sent for, I guess, but darned if I care. There are some interesting ideas if given a chance but there’s no life to this one.
Mighty Man “And The Devil Dogs” by Martin Filchock
A scientist is training dogs to attack snipers. How he plans to get his special fluid with the scent dogs are drawn to destroy onto those snipers is beyond me. Or why that involves kidnapping college students and tricking them into running off so the dogs can hunt them. The villains beat themselves and Mighty Man fights someone who is barely a flunky. This was just weak.
Shark by Lew Glanz
In our final story, the Shark learns about pirates using the war to cover up their cruel thievery, killing the crew by locking them in the boiler room while sinking the ship. Man, there’s a whole lot of everybody dies in this issue. Unless you’re a hot girl or that lucky crew in the last story who needs to lock up the bad guys, prepare to not be rescued by the hero, but at least you’ll be avenged.
overall
I think I’m done with this series. It’s not even a bad comic, at least for the time. It’s just mid and kind of boring at parts. I’m taking this one off the pull list. Aman may be amazing but his comic isn’t.
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