Real names: Carl Natz and Fritz Krieg
A.K.A.: N/A
First appearance: Sensation Comics I#14 (February 1943)
Abilities: Being spies
Quotes: "Ach! Come mit me tonight to the village dance!"
Worst act: Nazis and running Christmas
Created by: William Moulton Marston (script), Harry G. Peters (pencils/inks)
The first crazy thing in this story is the narrator. Just call him Abies Balsamea, but his friends call him Fir Balsam. He's also a tree. Yes, trees talk and see everything we do.
Carl Natz is a Nazi spy. He's in Canada and looking to do spy stuff. He also has the hots for Mrs. Carter, wife of his employer. He tries putting the moves on her, but right as the hubby comes home. Not standing for this, and also implying that he knows Natz is a spy, Mr. Carter gives her to him and kicks her out of his home.
He also smashes the Christmas tree, because why stop there?
A year later, the kids decide they've had enough of their old man and head out to find their mother, braving both the mountains and the dead of winter.
Long story short, they find her and trouble. Wonder Woman happens in, gets captured (as you do) and meets Natz's boss Fritz Krieg. From there the kids find their mother, Nazis get punched, Fir gets the top of his head cut off (he's fine and its for Christmas, so it's ok).
None of that explains how the tree knew what the kids were saying or how he knew what people were doing a year ago though.
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