“Yesterday’s” Comic> Miracle Comics #3

I know what they’re going for, but it looks like he just punched her out.

Miracle Comics #3

Hillman Periodicals (April, 1940)

Well, it hasn’t been much of a miracle so far. Looking back at the last review I think I’m only here to see how Sky Wizard’s story turns out, and the stories with it were just okay enough to keep going. If the stories are bad enough that I’m ready to stop here, and it’s happened before, that’s not a good showing. This is the third issue out so we’ll see if it can show improvement.

[Read along with me here]

Sky Wizard: Master Of Space

Stopping to feel sorry for Butch, who doesn’t get a cool underling name like the other two. “Look, it’s Hawk Armand, Vera The Tigress, and…Butch!” Meanwhile, Butch manages to capture Sky Wizard, who only survives because one of the Unholy One’s “Snowman” minions (the gargoyle looking dude on the cover) catches him. Then others grab Sky and the normal minions for some reason and takes them to the Unholy One, who of course is one of those “yellow menace” types. Sky manages to find the kids’ father, and with the help of his servant manages to defeat the Unholy One who, long story short read the comic, falls off the island and dies. Using the nitro balloons to take out the other snowmen who don’t look like they’re made of snow, taking the one who saved him (not sure how he tells the difference) just as he finds out something is wrong back in America. Yeah, this cliffhanger isn’t making me come back if the rest of the comic doesn’t step up. but it was a fairly decent story.

K-7: Secret Agent

The plot is actually pretty sound, as enemy agents have a unique way to kill ambassadors from South America trying to sign a treaty. Yvonne gets captured trying to trail the main suspect, not knowing how well his gang is hidden in the area. K-7 and a Scotland Yard inspector plan to replace the ambassador with a disguised K-7 to rescue Yvonne and stop the gang. This could have been a good story, but with so little time to tell it the story goes by so fast that it doesn’t have time to be enjoyable. Shame, really. Such promise ruined by the page count again. Happens too often in these Golden Age comics.

Dash Dixon: “The Kang-Hi Headdress”

I had to re-read my previous reviews to see if I understood how Dash got his powers and what I saw was me being horribly confused about what was going on in the last two adventures. I mean, the man’s metal costume looks like a superhero bellhop. It’s only slightly better this issue as a bunch of Chinese fight over a headdress that makes them…I don’t know, ruler of China for Japan somehow. When we actually see the thing it looks more like an old-school wizard cap. Make this series stop. Please.

The Scorpion: Terror Of The Underworld

Hal and Judd happen to see a train robbery and try to avert it. It just barely fits into the space, but there’s not much to say. A bunch of fighting, a death trap, and not very exciting a story overall.

Blanda The Jungle Queen

A disease is killing the animals, and then the people under Blanda’s tribe, so she and Greg must find the herb that can cure it. A barely thought out premise that is just an excuse for our heroine and Greg…or rather Greg’s gun, the real hero of this story…to kill bad Africans to save the good ones, which would sound worse than I’m making it out to be, but this is 1940. So it’s still pretty bad, or at least very weak and lame.

Pinkie Parker: The Kid Cop: “Stolen Clues” by Jack Alderman

Looks like the last story for Pinkie, not that I’ll miss him. Also, our kid cop tries to swipe a banana from a fruit cart. Our hero. Then he swipes oranges knowing the cart owner will somehow let Shane know he’s riding on the back of a killer’s car, which leads to a very long stretch to make the title work. Talk about going out on a low note.

Bill Colt: The Ghost Rider

No paranormal shenanigans here. He’s just a normal ranger that’s really good shot. Although, if he’s a Ranger and the sheriff knew it, why pretend not to just to let him sneak out? He clearly knew Colt was being framed for a stagecoach robbery so the crooks trying to hold back water and force people to pay for it…which should be hard when he stole their money…okay, I’m not sure what the plan was now that I think about it. I think it’s a land grab.

overall

I think we’re done here. The only interesting story is over and the rest just doesn’t have a chance to succeed. Nobody minds me dropping this series, right?