User blog:Nausiated/1945 & 1946

Okay it's been a while since I've done a blog post about the various years of continuity I've been adding to the Wiki... I apologize, it's been a non-stop party since Christmas until about... um now... I guess.. I'd get into details, but hey, there's kiddies in this Wiki so let's just say that the worst habit I have is comics and leave it at that. Denial is a great thing.

So what have I been up to recently? Well, I think you might appreciate this, over the last little I've slogged through pretty much every Timely Comics super-hero book from years 1945 and 1946. Depending on how you characterize the word "interesting", it is around this time that World War II had come to an end, so writers had to find new villains for our heroes to punch in the face since they beat the Nazis and Japanese.

To be honest with you, it was all pretty boring stuff. Dreadfully boring. The concept of creating long lasting bad guys was a bit of a lost art with the Timely crew (not that their competition at National Comics were any better, more often than not Batman and Superman were fighting nameless gangsters and thugs then punching the Joker and Lex Luthor in the face). The stories where all formulaic and some of them were recycled and used with different heroes.

The best example I can recall was the Cat Woman who fought Captain America in and the Cat-Woman who fought the Angel in. Another example was when they took the Karr the Mummy story from and reused it in. However, the Young Allies story was slightly different. A third example was the Sub-Mariner story in and the Angel story in. In both stories the heroes came to the aid of a young kid who was trying to earn extra money for their poor family and got framed for murder.

Most of the other stories were pretty much drab old concepts that were really wearing out their interest:


 * The insurance fraud scheme where the bad guy is tries to kill somebody, or burn down a building for the insurance money by making it look like an accident.


 * The similarly plotted inheritance scheme where the bad guy is trying to con other family members out of their inheritance, either by murder, some phony ghost haunting, or driving them insane.

There wasn't a whole lot by way of changes until 1946, as super-hero books were slowly becoming unpopular there was a shift of characters. Here are some highlights:


 * The Patriot was phased out of Marvel Mystery Comics in.


 * Regular Young Allies titles Young Allies Vol 1 and Kid Komics Vol 1 stop printing. Young Allies stories start appearing in Marvel Mystery Comics starting with issue . It's interesting to note that after the first story it appears that Jeff Sandervilt and Whitewash Jones were phased out of the stories all together.


 * 1946 saw the introduction of the All-Winners Squad who made only two appearances in and  (There was no All Winners #21 as the title was briefly retitled to  for one issue). It's the first published story that showed a group of Marvel heroes working together.


 * 1946 also saw the Blonde Phantom appear in and had the title renamed to.

Last but not least, it's also important to note that the majority of Captain America and Bucky appearances during this time were all retconned. I've gone ahead and updated all the comics from mid-1944 to the end of 1946 so that all the appearances are credited to the proper Captain America (William Nasland or Jeff Mace) and Bucky (Fred Davis Jr.)

Anyway, that's all for now. I'll be finishing up the rest of my summaries for 1946 comics and take a bit of a break and then get cracking on 1947.

Nausiated 01:02, April 24, 2012 (UTC)