Captain Tornado finally earns some points -- despite how Jane is dressed, he keeps his eyes facing nice and high -- and then promptly tosses them away with senseless violence. "Giant eyes! I can't even see what it is, if it's dangerous or not, or what it's intentions are -- but I'm a'gonna shoot it anyway!"
That's a pretty dynamic first panel for a strip this otherwise...well, I still don't know what to make of this strip. Let's try to work it out together, shall we?
Pro: Moon Mountain Manor sounds like a great name for an adventure module.
Pro: Although the Village of Rose Hollow seems to be fictional, there is a Rose Hollow Valley in Baxter County, Arkansas that is near the Ozarks.
Con: A minor quibble, but newspapers don't print their headlines in color.
Pro? Con?: The story turns conventions on their head by having the unattractive scientist in the lonely laboratory overlooking the village be the hero instead of the villain.
Using field glasses to read cablegrams at a distance is a sound tactic.
"Yugrarvia" surely refers to the then-Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
This page brings up a good point about the importance of thinking about where your hideouts are getting their electricity. If from the local power grid, it is too easy for the Heroes to turn that power off, but if the hideout has its own dynamo, you must place it somewhere.
I am wondering what is supposed to be so "horrifying" about that laboratory. It looks more "intriguing" than anything.
"Soft-shoe prowl" is a cool term.
This is a rare occurrence of a Hero using a chimney to navigate vertically through a hideout, but it is a good idea to be prepared for this in-game.
I'm amused by, not only how the death ray says "death ray" on it, but that he's advertising it took nine tries to perfect it.
There are no unexplored frequency bands in the vicinity of the X-ray; those are ultraviolet rays and gamma rays.
1,000 miles is a crazy long range for trophy weapons, but not that unusual in the comics. Consider carefully its effect on game balance, since players can get their hands on these.
Wing-walking was a stunt for Aviators in 1st edition Hideouts & Hoodlums.
Gas tanks exploding is a fairly critical complication for aerial combat.
Shark is smart to rescue his opponents, as it does give him people to question for information.
In 1940, the "medical magic of the hypodermic" likely refers to morphine.
Here is a rare occasion of Asians speaking an actual foreign language instead of broken English.
The Syndicate sounds like a criminal organization, but here seems to be refer to a national alliance (the Axis, perhaps?). It does not seem to be a coincidence that the bad guys here seem to be Japanese.
Being able to throw destroyers against the Heroes does make it a seriously high-level challenge.
(Scans courtesy of Comic Book Plus.)
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