Monster maroons were plagiarized?

[KennyB]

Here it is in high-rez (LINK) and you can see the equipment on the shoulders very clearly. It's from Amazing Stories Magazine, Vol.13, #5, May 1939. Here's the whole issue on the Internet Archive (LINK).

Seriously, it's a red shirt with a blue collar with white trim around the top of the collar, gold cuffs and a golden wing design on the collar. At that angle at a glance it maybe reminds you of the monster maroons, but it's a superficial similarity.

But we want to be OUTRAGED about something!

 

[Mysterion]

I can't tell if you're being pedantic or overly dramatic. The design is not inspired. It's a copy. Look at the shoulder strap insignia.

He often does both simultaneously.

But I do agree that this issue is more in the realm of coincidence than it is a case where Fletcher went rifling through old pulps and stole the costume design.