Golden Age Comics Are Insane...

...often even in a good way.

Take Air Fighters Comics.
One of Air Fighters' regular features was Airboy, a story about a young orphan boy who takes a plane designed and built by a monk (inspired by a vision) and uses it to fight a one-boy battle against meanies of all sorts.

Air Fighters also has the first and most notable comic character called the Heap. Yes, this was his first appearance ever. Forget that loser from the Spawn comics, this guy is a terror.

The Heap is an unholy vampiric terror spawned from the remains of a WWI German fighter ace and the vegetation of a swamp. He also...

...um, loves hearing spoken German. (And before you ask, yes these two screenshots are from the very same story.)

Did I forget to mention that the Heap actually first showed up in somebody else's feature?

But who really cares? I mean, they're just some guys in special split planes who fight Nazis. Nothing exciting about that, is there? Though one of them is a big Polish mute guy who taps Morse code on his own head to communicate...

Then there's the Iron Ace, who oozes awesomeness. How awesome is he?

He defeats a bomber with a tractor. And he wears a suit of medieval armor while flying a fighter plane.

And that plane is pretty awesome itself. In fact, like a great bullet...

...er, never mind. What you don't get from looking at these panels? The plane normally resembles a normal one, but was modified by a crazy French scientist to have magic indestructible extending/retracting armor.

There's also Keen Detective Funnies.

The main thing that got my attention about Keen Detective Funnies? The Eye.

Who is the Eye, you may ask? Is he just some regular guy detective? Heck no.

He's a great fiery eye that flies in the sky.

Here's the thing about the Eye. He's omniscient and can be anywhere, which means that you'll never know when he's watching you...

(True fact: This involved a grave robbing story, in which somebody noticed a stolen grave-robbed ring. I do not lie. Not about crazy old comics, anyway.)

So you never know when the ol' Eye will just gracelessly barge in on your criminal activities without warning.

I am probably going to shout "This is your day of reckoning, Pickles!" and variants on said statement at people randomly for the rest of my life.

And the Eye apparently does this for no reason other than satisfaction in a job well done...

...or something like that, I guess...

All comics are public domain stuff. More information can be found at Public Domain Super Heroes, and free CBR files can be found at Golden Age Comics Downloads. (CBR information and downloads can be found here.)

-Signing off.