Dr. Doom-Criminals On the Run-1949

Hardly a foreign dictator, this Golden Age Doc Doom is a "keen-witted professor of criminology."Some handsome looking art here and it certainly looks familiar but I'm drawing a blank and GCD is silent on the subject. 

Fire-Eater- Art Saaf-1941

I was just thinking that nowadays all these half naked superdoers would be easily recognized by any tattoos they might have, as many people do--of both sexes!

The Great Gazoo-1976

One of the surprise treats in recent comics has been DC's new FLINTSTONES title. Fred and Wilma and all their friends first appeared in comics from Dell in 1961. Their adventures continued from Gold Key, Charlton and even Harvey. It may only have been at Charlton, though, where the Great Gazoo--the animated Cousin Oliver of his day--not only appeared but actually had his own comic for 20 issues that was still running a full decade after the final original episode of THE FLINTSTONES!  

Imagine Harvey Korman's best supercilious voice for Gazoo as you read this. 

Abbott & Costello-1969

The ABBOTT & COSTELLO comic book came along ostensibly as a tie-in to the then-new 1960s cartoons. Only the cartoons were terrible and quickly tanked and the comic book--originally thanks to Steve Skeates--was often pretty amusing. Here we see the creators (hard to tell the artist and I believe Skeates was gone by this point) playing with the concept of comic books themselves.

Hawkman-Sheldon Moldoff-1943

Sheldon Moldoff is arguably the most underrated man in comic book history. Not only did he use his Alex Raymond/photo swipe style on HAWKMAN and other series but he was, for all intents and purposes, "Bob Kane" and even, according to some evidence, suggested the concept of horror comics to Bill Gaines at EC!

Uncle Sam's Postal Inspectors-Real Life Comics-1947

An interesting attempt at portraying the nation's postal inspectors as men of action dealing in daily intrigue and excitement. I'm sure it happened...sometimes. But you'll note that postal inspectors never got their own radio series or movie serial.

Red Rube-Bill Vigoda-1944

He's a rube, and he's red. Not much more to say about this story featuring one of the few superheroes  of theirs that Archie never tried to revive at all. The art is by Abe Vigoda's brother...who was generally much better than this.