For this weekend’s light-hearted, escapist superhero blog post we’ll do the DC characters called the Creature Commandos.

WEIRD WAR TALES Vol 1 #93 (November 1980)

Title: The Creature Commandos

Villains: Nazi soldiers

Synopsis: This story introduced Project M, a fictional 1942 War Department effort to unleash supernatural monsters upon the Axis armies. The members of these Creature Commandos:

*** Warren Griffith, an institutionalized teenager who irrationally thought he was a werewolf, so the scientists of Project M turned him into a real, biological man-wolf who could become his monstrous self at will. 

*** Marine Private Elliot «Lucky» Taylor, who blew away much of his body after stepping on a land mine. Government scientists used patchwork body parts to reassemble him into a huge, yellow-skinned Frankenstein’s Monster figure.

*** Army Sergeant Vincent Velcro, who was given a choice of 30 years of hard labor for crippling a superior officer and being…