Number 2204: Give Mighty Man a great big hand!

I like the splash panel for this adventure of Mighty Man from. It tells us Mighty Man’s powers: He can grow! He can shrink! He can change his features! I especially like the big hand he can produce to get to his enemies. It reminds me of Plastic Man, but without the plastic. I like what Don Markstein’s Toonopedia says about Mighty Man: “Mighty Man was such an early jumper-on to the Superman bandwagon, it was still possible to give him a generic name, one that, like Wonder Man or Amazing-Man, says nothing about the character except ‘I'm a super guy.’”

The episode is evidently part of a longer story, but is full of Mighty Man’s tricks on a villain called the Witch, whose witch powers apparently give her the appearance of a normal looking young woman. (What? No broom?) I also like that Mighty Man can become Mighty Kid. I guess that is where one of the promises of the splash panel comes in: He can change his features!

Grand Comics Database attributes both story and art to Martin Filchock. Filchock is the creator of Mighty Man, according to Public Domain Super Heroes. The story appeared in Centaur’s Stars and Stripes Comics #2 (1941).

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