Captain Kid and the Swamp Smugglers

 

This barely happens in the story.

I have another Captain Kid for you all. Coming from Captain Marvel Adventures #10 dated May of 1942, Captain Kid saves a puppy and winds up in the Death Swamp.

One of the things I love about Captain Kid is how he is clearly drawn by a different person in each adventure. What does Captain Kid really look like? Who knows?!

I don't care what that dog did, he doesn't deserve death. Is this man just going to crush the dog with his hands? Not if Captain Kid has anything to say about it!

Hooray!! We can just end the comic now. I've seen all I need to.

I just realized this guy just gave a 12-year-old boy and hard left hook. Was that something that happened in the 1940s?

I agree that someone who abuses the most vulnerable of our society would likely do anything "no good", but I don't know if I would follow them to see what they are up to.

Why does this man hate this dog so much?

Kudos to the license plate this German man has that reads "Ach 2".

Death Swamp! Death Swamp! Death Swamp!

I'm sure this character is just a reaction to anti-German sentiment that was prevalent during World War II but this man is just talking like der Captain in The Katzenjammer Kids.

Wait. These guys are smuggling aliens? They're smuggling immigrants? They're human traffickers!!??! This is a far cry from the usual villains we've seen Captain Kid deal with.

Captain Kid should name that dog Snowy and go on adventures to exotic lands with him.

We're getting some good panels of Captain Kid using his superpowers. His superpower of running away really fast.

Is "Vot's Dis" and "Vot's Dot" this guy's catchphrase or something...?

Oh no it looks like Captain Kid is trapped between a rock and hard place. There's no way he's getting out this one. Now he'll be trafficked as well. I know there are some people that will love the outfit he's wearing.

I have no idea what happened here. The snake launched himself at Captain Kid, he ducked so the snake just wrapped around the crocodile who then, in a state of panic, hit the three men with its tail causing the men to collide with each other and be knocked out? Okay, but that's more than meeting this story halfway.

Okay, but is there actually any evidence to convict these men? Since, what's his name, Krautz, is German, he might be held as a prisoner of war.

Wait. Why did, what's his name, Krautz, want to kill the dog. It's not like the dog could warn people of their human trafficking scheme. Maybe the writer was just like "Germans are evil and clearly would want to kill an dog with their bare hands!"

Captain Kid's got a gun, folks!