Number 2358: Pulling the reader’s strings: the Puppeteer

I hope I have gotten this right: the Puppeteer is a super hero whose super powers come from a magic organ playing the famous first few bars of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. Dressed in a patriotic costume (there was a war going on), the Puppeteer flies by riding something called the V-ray. He has a secret identity, and in his civilian identity he carves puppets that look like the Puppeteer. He is not only a super hero called Puppeteer, but an avocational puppeteer as well. Finally, he has a talking raven called Raven.

It is probably no wonder the Puppeteer had a short lifespan as a super hero. This story, “The Bleeding Statue,” was his introduction, and he made a couple of appearances afterward in various Fox comic books. He was drawn by Alvin Carl Hollingsworth, whose secret identity we also know was as one of the few African-American artists drawing comics.

The publisher of record is R. W. Voight, Chicago, Illinois, whom I believe was someone with a paper allotment that the book packager, Victor Fox, used for the 128-page one-shot giant comic, All Good Comics (1944).

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