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Daring Mystery Comics #5
Daring Mystery Comics (1940-1942) #5
Witness the early days of Marvel! Starring Fiery Mask, Trojak the Tiger Man, Marvex the Super-Robot, and more!
65 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 10, 2017
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June 14, 2022
We're starting to just get into straightforward Masked vigilante justice and we are getting steadily better.
The Fiery Mask
Mr. Weatherman, I'm sorry, The Fiery Mask, is back! And much more fun than last time (still stupid, but) this time instead of Corpsemen he fights protoplasmic ooze that's washing over the city and eating people down to their bones like The Blob. I wasn't expecting to see two straight up skelingtons inside the muck, so I obviously appreciate that. If Fiery Mask handles supernatural junk like this I think I get his gimmick and I'm into it. Also the villain who created the ooze was named Dork, and that's hilarious.
Trojak: The Tiger Man
Thiiiiis one was pretty yikes to me. The "bad" tribe in this is totally justified at being pissed off at Trojak for defiling their flower god, he just needed a small, drinkable amount to help one person, you didn't need to kill their God, man! Just talk!
K-4 and His Flying Devils
This was actually pretty fun and action packed. K-4's makeup artist and his pal René accidentally get captured by Nazis and have to go undercover. The bridge heist and plane pickup were pretty fun.
Monako: Prince of Magic
Here we get his origin and find out that Monako was raised by a "Savage and cruel" tribe, after his missionary parents were murdered by them. Then the "Savage and cruel" chief of the tribe decides to be a cool dude and save young Monako, feed him, raise him, and teach him the mystic arts of this dying tribe. Then the tribe is mowed down by the British military, so once again I think the real bad guys here were the British who probably could have not been doing missions in the heart of India in the first place, because the tribe was pretty chill to raise a child that wasn't theirs. I mean, I'm not an expert on any of the above but... Ehhh....
Marvex: Super Robot
Marvex is the kindest fighting robot. He throws apologetic punches and spends the rest of his fight flinging his body or head into enemies and walls to great affect. The only thing that can stop him, and has both times, is a net! Just make sure you restrain him before taking him out of the net or he'll go buckwild. He even tried to protect the antagonist of this story, right up until he throws himself from a window and splashes on the stones below.
Whirlwind Carter of the Interplanetary Secret Services
I think I can say that I like Whirlwind Carter the most of these classic characters (for now), his stories are so bizarre and I love the stupid pop art look of it and the stupid characters "Whirlwind" and Brenda. In this story Earth is attacked by the Black-Light Men from planet Black Light, and yeah, they're about as gross as you'd expect. They also froze the Earth, caused (basically) a rapture (people were dropped and killed after being picked up, so almost a rapture). Brenda was the only one thinking and discovered that the Black-Light Men don't like fire being thrown at them (like any kind of men) so she was smart and tough!... Right before she got kidnapped and then saved.
Breeze Barton: In the Rebuilding of the World
After escaping Miracle City, Breeze continues rebuilding civilization, attracting the ire of yet another raiding party. After neatly exploding their chief to bits, the remnants of the raiding party decide that peace is the much better option between these two civilizations. I liked this story, straight forward, silly action is what I want.
Little Hercules: The Boy Wonde
Don't trust "foreign agents", kids!
The Falcon
I was hoping The Falcon would have a pal pet Falcon or something, but he's just another District Attorney cavorting around as a Masked crusader. At least these early heroes were trained in law, so it wasn't ALL vigilante justice. Even though this is also the case of a superhero who shoots people first and asks questions later. I liked that this actually had some elements of crime solving, it made everything just slightly more believable. Until an evil doctor from New York drops The Falcon into a pit with alligators.
The Fiery Mask
Mr. Weatherman, I'm sorry, The Fiery Mask, is back! And much more fun than last time (still stupid, but) this time instead of Corpsemen he fights protoplasmic ooze that's washing over the city and eating people down to their bones like The Blob. I wasn't expecting to see two straight up skelingtons inside the muck, so I obviously appreciate that. If Fiery Mask handles supernatural junk like this I think I get his gimmick and I'm into it. Also the villain who created the ooze was named Dork, and that's hilarious.
Trojak: The Tiger Man
Thiiiiis one was pretty yikes to me. The "bad" tribe in this is totally justified at being pissed off at Trojak for defiling their flower god, he just needed a small, drinkable amount to help one person, you didn't need to kill their God, man! Just talk!
K-4 and His Flying Devils
This was actually pretty fun and action packed. K-4's makeup artist and his pal René accidentally get captured by Nazis and have to go undercover. The bridge heist and plane pickup were pretty fun.
Monako: Prince of Magic
Here we get his origin and find out that Monako was raised by a "Savage and cruel" tribe, after his missionary parents were murdered by them. Then the "Savage and cruel" chief of the tribe decides to be a cool dude and save young Monako, feed him, raise him, and teach him the mystic arts of this dying tribe. Then the tribe is mowed down by the British military, so once again I think the real bad guys here were the British who probably could have not been doing missions in the heart of India in the first place, because the tribe was pretty chill to raise a child that wasn't theirs. I mean, I'm not an expert on any of the above but... Ehhh....
Marvex: Super Robot
Marvex is the kindest fighting robot. He throws apologetic punches and spends the rest of his fight flinging his body or head into enemies and walls to great affect. The only thing that can stop him, and has both times, is a net! Just make sure you restrain him before taking him out of the net or he'll go buckwild. He even tried to protect the antagonist of this story, right up until he throws himself from a window and splashes on the stones below.
Whirlwind Carter of the Interplanetary Secret Services
I think I can say that I like Whirlwind Carter the most of these classic characters (for now), his stories are so bizarre and I love the stupid pop art look of it and the stupid characters "Whirlwind" and Brenda. In this story Earth is attacked by the Black-Light Men from planet Black Light, and yeah, they're about as gross as you'd expect. They also froze the Earth, caused (basically) a rapture (people were dropped and killed after being picked up, so almost a rapture). Brenda was the only one thinking and discovered that the Black-Light Men don't like fire being thrown at them (like any kind of men) so she was smart and tough!... Right before she got kidnapped and then saved.
Breeze Barton: In the Rebuilding of the World
After escaping Miracle City, Breeze continues rebuilding civilization, attracting the ire of yet another raiding party. After neatly exploding their chief to bits, the remnants of the raiding party decide that peace is the much better option between these two civilizations. I liked this story, straight forward, silly action is what I want.
Little Hercules: The Boy Wonde
Don't trust "foreign agents", kids!
The Falcon
I was hoping The Falcon would have a pal pet Falcon or something, but he's just another District Attorney cavorting around as a Masked crusader. At least these early heroes were trained in law, so it wasn't ALL vigilante justice. Even though this is also the case of a superhero who shoots people first and asks questions later. I liked that this actually had some elements of crime solving, it made everything just slightly more believable. Until an evil doctor from New York drops The Falcon into a pit with alligators.
September 25, 2025
I enjoyed all the stories here except the last two. Some weird newspaper cartoon and Falcon, who is really boring and generic. Whirlwind Carter is the greatest here, bright, garish and absolutely off the walls ridiculous with magnetiser rays, vacuum powered, black light, moving planets. Just fantastic.
Monako has a worrying origin story of evil natives raising him. But there is a genuinely hilarious scene where he makes the body bag fly after the crooks that threw it overboard and chases them down the deck. Trojak is actually fantastic, with a true moral dilemma of needing to use a sacred flower to heal his friend, but it is a god to a tribe and so he has to fight them to get it. Trojak isn’t on the side of right here, but was he wrong? Good story overall.
Monako has a worrying origin story of evil natives raising him. But there is a genuinely hilarious scene where he makes the body bag fly after the crooks that threw it overboard and chases them down the deck. Trojak is actually fantastic, with a true moral dilemma of needing to use a sacred flower to heal his friend, but it is a god to a tribe and so he has to fight them to get it. Trojak isn’t on the side of right here, but was he wrong? Good story overall.
September 6, 2019
I’m surprised at how death happens. Usually no one gets hurt after a fist fight (which happens a lot!) and in this issue at least a million perish without a bat if an eye. I did like the Whirlwind in that the bad guys offered some resistance that wasn’t just whacking the good guy on the head.
Introducing Hercules? It’s weird to have a very cartoony portrayal of just an ordinary looking kid who has strength and intelligence. Seemed out of place.
Introducing Hercules? It’s weird to have a very cartoony portrayal of just an ordinary looking kid who has strength and intelligence. Seemed out of place.
December 5, 2024
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Still indifferent towards these daring mystery comics. The Death Clutch was a good short story though.
Still indifferent towards these daring mystery comics. The Death Clutch was a good short story though.
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