| Blargo the Lawless | |
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Real Name |
Blargo |
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First Appearance |
Planet Comics #59 (March, 1949) |
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Original Publisher |
Fiction House |
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Created by |
John Douglas |
Origin
Sometime in the late 21st century Futura was brought to the small planetoid Oceania as a captive of space pirates Omma and Yrina. Captain Blargo was in charge of the "fishermen", an outlaw band trafficking in illegal oddities salvaged from the depths below, Omma being their best customer. Like his subordinates, Blargo watched with great alarm as the spaceship narrowly avoided crashing into their domed tower headquarters before plunging into the ocean.
After Futura had made her way back to them across the sea bottom beset by local sea creatures the fisher-men brought her and the creatures into a tank inside the tower. Grateful, she asked them to help her return home to prove her innocence but Blargo claimed the beautiful Earth girl as his "queen" and attempted to kiss her. She immediately overpowered him and managed to fight her way to a small submarine craft and escape. Soon pursued personally by Blargo warning her of danger ahead, desperately swearing he would grant her freedom, Futura saw his craft end up captured by a giant sea creature.
Ignoring Blargo's shouts that she save herself, Futura charged her own craft full speed at the beast and bailed out. Finding his aqua-helmet in time to save him from drowning, she carried the unconscious Blargo who awoke just as the two were grabbed by the subhuman monsters of the Mystery Sands.
Captain Blargo was a tenacious brawler and a brave and loyal companion to Futura in the following adventures. He most likely spoke the Trans-Cosmos language.
Golden Age Comic Appearances
Planet Comics #59-64