Tuesday, August 14, 2018

Champion Comics #3 - pt. 3

This is still Blazing Scarab. The Curtain of Ammon is a magic item that functions like a...well, it's a television set with color and sound. Karnak is a real place.


 Memthet seems to be a fictional location.





Revenge of the Zombies is a serial probably based on the 1932 classic White Zombie.  Here, for the first time, we see undead zombies instead of space zombies or green hairy zombies. We also see Voodoo Charms, which act like a Charm Person spell on anyone wearing them.

The story is surprisingly dark, what with the dead goat left on the doorstep here, and later a dead pig is thrown as a distraction.

This serial is called Yacqui Gold. Yacqui is an Indian people indigenous to the southern Sonora state, on the west coast of Mexico. The art is by an obscure artist, Roland (or Romana?) Patenaude. Most of the art looks rushed, but the inking on that fifth panel is gorgeous.

Here is an encounter with a cougar (puma), and another example of a mobstertype being killed in one hit. 

Weakness from loss of blood is not a game mechanic in Hideouts & Hoodlums, though needing to sleep is an implied mechanic and perhaps he was also just really tired.

(Scans courtesy of Comic Book Plus.)










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