Reading Room: CAPTAIN AERO "Moon That was Motionless"

What do you do with a wartime aviator character after the war?

 In the case of fighting aviator Captain Aero, you make him into a shirtless extraterrestrial fighter!

Art by Rudy Palais, writer unknown.

Captain Aero was one of numerous costumed aviators who fought the Axis in comic books during World War II.

His distinctive traits included a mustache that came and went depending on the artist and an aircraft that could use its' propeller like a buzz-saw.

In his early days he was assisted by the Sky Scouts, a gang of kids who wanted to be aviators, and who were popular enough to have their own backup strip.

By the time of this never-reprinted story's publication in Captain Aero Comics #26 in 1946, WW II was over, and sales on military-themed comics were dropping.

A number of them, like Blackhawk, shifted to battling criminals and/or Communist spies.

But not Captain Aero!
He was destined for bigger things...like battling Nazis on the Moon, a concept which survives to this day in the recently-released movie Iron Sky!

BTW, this was Captain Aero's final issue, and his last appearance in comics.

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Reading Room: SUPERSNIPE & ULYSSES Q WACKY "Jap Trap"

SuperSnipe may have headlined his own title...

...but the supporting cast also merited their own ongoing strips, which guest-starred Koppy McFad both in and out of costume!

(BTW, despite the story title, there's no NSFW racist depictions in this tale, just racist attitudes!)

Koppy and his supporting characters tended to crossover a lot in these tales, giving the stories a nice "unified universe" feel unique in the Golden Age.
Story and art for this tale from SuperSnipe Comics V1N6 (1942) by George Marcoux, who did all the "SuperSnipe Universe" strips including this one, Gramp, and, of course, SuperSnipe himself!

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