Number 2245: Supermind and Dan fulfill their plan

Here is the second/concluding part of the Professor Supermind and Son story I began a couple of days ago. If you want to read part 1 before part 2, go back a couple of days to Pappy’s Number 2243.

We have seen Professor Supermind’s television (“Televisoscope”) and him zapping his son with electricity to charge his super powers, but in this episode we see his invisible rocketship. It makes Wonder Woman’s propeller-driven invisible plane look antique.

Despite the clunkiness of the story (America invaded? What else is new?) the artwork is top notch. Grand Comics Database does not credit the artist, but it appears the artist’s inspiration was Alex Raymond’s Flash Gordon. I have said before that were it not for those popular Sunday features, Flash Gordon and Hal Foster’s Prince Valiant, to serve for inspiration and swipes, early comic books would have had a much different look.

From Popular Comics #66 (1941):

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