Showing posts with label Sun Koh. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sun Koh. Show all posts

Thursday, July 26, 2007

Sun Koh and his Crew


The Nazi pulp übermensch, Sun Koh did not travel alone. Like Doc Savage, Sun Koh had his own crew of aides. Their number changed from time to time, but I have been able to piece together some of the Aryan warrior types that assisted Sun Koh on his adventures.

Sun Koh : Six foot six, well muscled, blond haired, blue eyed, bronzed skinned, and highly intelligent, Sun Koh was the last prince of Atlantis sent forward in time to prepare for the return of the Lost Continent before the coming Ice Age. (So much for global warming!) He had a tattoo on his back and left side which depicted Atlantis. His powers were mirror images of Doc Savage's. Sun Koh was also a "Man of Destiny" who had incredible luck in everything he did. He also had a "Danger Sense" that gave him a premonition of any threat to his person. He usually wore Jodhpurs, calf-high boots, and a military shirt with epaulets and pleated buttoned down pockets.







Map of Atlantis


Ashanti Garuda: (aka "The Daughter of Kali") Ashanti is the mistress and chief assassin of Sun Koh. Her nick name is Shani. She is a true Aryan from India who has mastered all forms of Yoga, Ayurvedic/Unani/Siddha medicine, Indian Mysticism, Sorcery, Alchemy, Kalaripayit, Marma Adi, Silambam, Varma Kalari, and other Indian martial arts. Her true age is unknown but she appears to be in her twenties thanks to her Ayurvedic Elixir of Life. She is a devotee of Kali and of the Left Hand Path of Tantra who has vowed eternal hatred on the British for oppressing her people. The six powers granted to her by Kali are pacifying (glamour, seduction), subjugating (hypnosis, sexual obsession), paralysing (pressure points), obstructing (grappling and throws), driving away (breaking kicks and punches), and death-dealing (strangulation, death blows, death points). Ashanti has a berserker attack that uses all four extremities and her head which is utterly devastating. She wears different colored Spider-web silk Saris that are light and airy and do not impede her leg movements but which can stop a pistol bullet or a knife. She has a blood red oval tikala mark on her forehead with a golden Swastika in the middle to honor Kali. She also has 12 swastikas tattooed on her body to protect her from harm (i.e., on the soles of her feet, the palms of her hands, inside of her thighs, the inner side of her arms, the outsides of her buttocks, and the lateral sides of her breasts). She has a pet miniature Golden Spitting Cobra with green eyes named Shakti that she wears as a bracelet entwined around her right upper arm or forearm. The snake remains still and appears to be just a bracelet until Shani awakens it. The snake can spit venom precisely from a dozen feet away on Ashanti's command to temporarliy blind an opponent. It's bite though is quite deadly.











Alaska-Jim : Jim Hoover, aka "Alaska-Jim," was a hunter and trapper in the Old West who also worked for the Canadian police. He was an associate of Sun Koh and was known for his riding, roping, and shooting skills. Jim was a giant mountain man with the ferocity and fighting prowess of Jeremiah Johnson. He was a Canadian of German descent who lived in the Yukon. He was one of the first of Sun Koh's associates. Jim always dressed in furs or Buckskins and wore a coonskin cap with a striped tail.




Jan Mayen : Jan Mayen was a detective-inventor-adventurer who flew around the world in an atomic-powered aircraft. He had adventures on every continent. He was like Captain Nemo in having advanced technology at his finger tips. He dressed in the uniform of an airplane captain with a round service cap.



Sturmvögel : (Storm Bird) Rudolf Rauhaar, aka Rolf Kraft, aka Sturmvögel was an associate of Alaska-Jim. Sturmvögel was seven feet tall and a well trained paratrooper, commando, and soldier in the manner of Rambo. While he had many adventures in the American and Canadian west, he also could handle himself in Jungle and desert terrain. He combined stealth with strength, speed, and lethality. He usually wore black fatigues and combat boots with either a German infantry helmet or an alpine military hat. He was the quintessential Storm Trooper.





Rolf Karsten : Rolf Karsten was a consulting detective and was known as , der Schrecken der Berliner Unterwelt (The Terror of the Berlin Underworld) or Schreck for short.. This was a private detective with edge who could match wits with urban criminals and who had no limits to what he would do to solve a case. Good with his fists and fast with a gun or a knife. Also an astute judge of human nature and human vices. He wore cheap suits with a small brimmed hat and was constantly smoking a cigarette. Sun Koh eventually used hypnosis on him to get him to quit smoking.



Minx : Ludwig Minx was a man of mystery: a ghost hunter, ghost breaker, and professional magician who usually wore a Top Hat, a tuxedo, a collared cape, a large wand/cane, and a goatee. He not only dealt with fantastic mysteries but more mundane ones as well. He possessed a wide range of mental powers, including hypnosis, telepathy, psychometry, and levitation. He was an expert in all forms of prestidigitation, and there was no phenomenon of somnambulism, of telepathy, of `telepsychics,' of levitation, hypnotism, magnetism, suggestion, and autosuggestion that was beyond him. He was trained by the adepts of the Agartha, the lost Aryan civilization residing inside the Hollow Earth and a member of the Thule Society. He was very much like the Shadow, Mandrake the Magician, and the Spider all rolled into one.



You will notice that none of these folks has a PhD or any constructive day job. They were all people of action, prone to violence, and having few moral limits.







Monday, July 2, 2007

Sun Koh, the German Doc Savage!


This picture is from volume 1 of his exploits: Sun Koh, Heir of Atlantis: A Man Falls from the Sky.

That's right! Germany had its own Pulp magazines and its own stable of heroes (heldromans). And Sun Koh was their own Aryan version of Doc Savage: super smart, super rich, super strong, and of the super race! He was the Nietzschean Übermensch. The series was written by Paul Alfred Mueller under the house name "Lok Myler" from 1933 to 1936. The documentation I have seen says that this series started AFTER Doc Savage and so it is likely Sun Koh was derivative from him, not vice versa. Sun Koh made his last appearances in 1938 in some of the adventures of the pulp character Jan Mayen. As war approached, pulp magazines were no longer published in Germany. Sun Koh had a total of 150 published adventures. In 1939, the pulps were no longer printed. Only official Nazi publications were allowed after that. Sun Koh's adventures were republished several times in modified form after the war. The modifications usually were to remove racial or anti-Semitic slurs.

Sun Koh was the ideal Nazi hero. He was an Aryan racial supremacist, a Prince of the lost continent of Atlantis who had mysteriously fallen form the sky over London in 1932 with no memory of his past. He was tall, bronzed, blond haired, and blue eyed with a map of ancient Atlantic tatooed on his back and continuing to his left side. He was dressed only in robes that were typical of the dress in Atlantis. He had been sent because a new ice age was coming and his mission was to facilitate the re-emergence of the lost Continent and a re-establishment of Atlantean (that is ARYAN) dominance over the world. It would be survival of the fittest: that is of the Aryan master race. Lesser races were meant to be subjugated, and the villains in Sun Koh stories were usually agents of world Jewry or the like bent on thwarting the rise to world dominion of the Master Race. Blah, blah, blah.... You get the picture.

Sun Koh was a Nazi party member and an (informal) agent of German Military Intelligence. He was an advocate of eugenics and enslavement of non-Aryans. His goal was to turn Greenland (Thule) into arable farm land for white people to settle. In his stories, the 'inferior races' capitulated to his will without a fight unlike what really happened in World War II. His treatment of the subject races was precisely what the Nazis were advocating in the 1930s. The stories advocated aggressive eugenics policies.

Sun Koh was not a German name, but it sounded exotic in German and was "Atlantean" in origin. He is endowed with similar attributes as Doc Savage and has been considered to be a German "knock off" of the Man of Bronze, except that Sun Koh does not hesitate to take lives. In fact he was a casual killer who took lives without a second thought. In addition to the usual super strength, super speed, super senses, super dexterity, super calculating ability, and eidetic memory, Sun Koh also had a "Danger Sense" which warned him of an impending threat to his person like "Spider Sense". He also was a "man of destiny" favored by fate to find leibensraum for Germans and other white people . (Shades of you-know-who from Mein Kampf. No accident.)

He had aides as well. Jan Meyen was a detective/adventurer/inventor who flew around the world in an atomic powered Air Craft. And Alaska Jim Hoover was an explorer, trapper, and all around tough guy. He apparently had other assistants as well. These were not men of education but adventurers committed to decisive action.

The series ended when Sun Koh successfully raised Atlantis, made Greenland green again, and conquered the world inside the Hollow Earth. Let the Ice Age come! The Aryan race was secure.


It is interesting that the Sun Koh stories stopped just before the start of World War II. Allegedly he fulfilled his destiny and there were no worlds left to conquer. But if Doc Savage and Sun Koh were contemporaries it is possible that they came into conflict with each other and the fittest actually did survive: Doc Savage! Could this explain why Sun Koh disappeared before World War II?


I will consult my confidential sources and we will see.

Here are some Sun Koh websites:

http://www.herogames.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-39365.html

http://www.ssi-media.com/sunkoh/

http://www.ssi-media.com/sunkoh/SunKoh.htm

http://www.ssi-media.com/sunkoh/Biblio.htm

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Koh

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