Halloween is coming, and Mr. Blog’s Tepid Ride is celebrating! On Monday we’ll take a look at a particularly interesting Halloween costume, and on Thursday the Tepid Zombie shambles back with an artist spotlight. Hope you like monsters! The American Chopper Weekly Rundown continues its look at the scary relationship of the Teutuls, and the Imponderable looks at a man who is definitely not scared of the police. Saturday Comics featured Hitler yesterday, but who can top him for Halloween? All this, The Blog that was a Decade in the Making continues, and more, this week on Mr. Blog’s Tepid Ride.
While Hitler never had his own comic strip or series (at least not in this country, and if there is a German Hitler comic I DO NOT want to know) he was on several comic book covers during World War Two.
Hitler and the Nazis (not to be confused with Benny and the Jets) remain the only real go-to bad guys in pulp fiction, including comic books and B-movies. Even Osama Bin Laden didn’t rise to their level.
In the 1940’s it was easy to put Hitler on a comic book cover, preferably getting punched out by the titular hero, and be sure of sales. And it didn’t matter if he never appeared in the comic. It was common for comic covers to not reflect the contents, but a Hitler cover was an attention-getter.
Even an episode of Doctor Who this very season got in on the act in the episode named “Let’s Kill Hitler.” Spoiler- they didn’t.
The most patriotically named of all heroes, Captain America, may have the most covers featuring Hitler, but everyone from Superman to Captain Marvel got in on the Nazi bashing.
Enjoy the slideshow below of ten comic covers of the Good Guys bashing Hitler.
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