All about hypnosis and related subjects in the media
James Bond (George Lazenby) is on the trail of Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Telly Savalas), now hiding in an exclusive clinic in Switzerland. Blofeld’s latest scheme is a world-wide blackmail plot, assisted by a number of lovely ladies under Blofeld’s hypnotic control. Complicating matters is the mutual attraction Bond feels toward Tracy di Vicenso (Diana Rigg), daughter of the head of the Union Corse crime syndicate.
It just goes to show that there’s always something else to discover out there, even when dealing with such a narrow field of interest as the cross-over between hypnosis and media. As a major superhero comic fan and being somewhat knowledgeable about their history, I thought I knew of most every superheroic hypnotist but there is one that I learned about only recently.
That superhero is “Hip Knox — The Super Hypnotist”. Hip Knox appeared in Superworld Comics #1–3, along with his bitter rival, a thuggish criminal named McFadden.
But there’s a story behind the comic and the hero.
Two entries this week, one expected and one unexpected. The first, “Zatanna”, is a title I normally collect, the second one, “Batman Annual”, that I normally don’t bother with but examined just because it was new this week, and I’m glad I did.
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