Alternate World Comics

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Frank Leslie’s Boys’and Girls’ Weekly

The Young Turtle-Hunters; or, The Lost Treasures of the Hunted Lagoon. By Matt Marling

New York, January 22 1881

Dolores, who had caught up a cutlass from the arms cheft in the closet, brought the keen blade down on the mate’s shoulder.

Nick Carter

Before Doc Savage and the Shadow the go to superhero of Street & Smith was Nick Carter “the little giant”, master of disguise with the skill, knowledge and strength of any three other men.

Superstar of the Penny Dreadful / Dime Novels (though they really cost a nickel) for years, he also had a Pulp magazine and was a backup strip in The Shadow Comics, ending with a string of paperback originals in the 60s… when does he get a Story Blob?

Mr. Midnight

They weren’t comics, but there probably wouldn’t have been comic books without them.

Early version of a supervillain from the 1800s.

The Ironman of one hundred years ago.