Welcome back for Tom versus the Secret Society of Supervillains number two or cloning is an imperfect science.

Welcome back for the July, August, 1976 issue featuring a cover penciled by Dick Geronano

inked by Terry

Austin

and our story is no man shall I call master. Slightly passive. Written by Jerry Conway and David Anthony Kraft, penciled by Pablo Marcos inked by Robert Smith from the cure colored by Carl Gafford and edited by Jerry Conway. That's right. I'm back.

I'm back once a year.

Actually, I am going to do this more regularly once a week. And there's a reason why I'm going to do that. And we'll get that to that at the end. I'm going to do the fun part first. I'm going to do the comic first. And then once we get through the fun part, you can grab and just talk about how the how the world is these days

and why i'm going to do this once a week it'll get it'll get sad and slightly angry towards the end

so let's have fun at the beginning secret society supervillains first issue a whole year ago

bad guys you know they're in a building. Someone's funding them.

Manhunter is leading them. Not Martian Manhunter. The clone of Paul Kirk. Manhunter? I know everyone's nodding. Like, of course, that's the manhunter you're talking about. The gersely dressed assassin. He's a charge. It's a little bit of mystery. Why? We'll put this together. And this comic book

being a complete mess, kind of gets strange immediately in the second issue, but we'll get to that

in a second. Because in this story, we get Captain Comet returning. Captain Comet, beloved

character, sort of. It's strange when a comic, you know, the Secret Society of Supervillains, it's all based on villains, they immediately are throwing in, at this point, a long-forgotten Supercar. I mean, he was, I believe he was a character from strange adventures in the 50s, you know, so with the point where he comes back here, it's been 20 years.

So what has Captain Comet been doing for 20 years? He was out in space, searching for himself.

Because he discovered, and we'll get to this later, he was a mutant. He's also an asshole, which we'll see from his own words, which I will quote, directly with no embellishment as we go along.

So, Captain Comets been out in space,

flying around, searching for himself, backpacking through the universe,

with his flight belts, which looks like underwear, right?

You know, lots of jokes about superheroes wearing their underwear on the outside.

This guy, it is, it is underwear on the outside.

His quote, unquote, flight belt.

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