(Detective v1 032, 1939)
Skull-Face is a villain I love. He looks, predictably, like a guy with a skull-face, yet he runs a “beauty cult” which might just be a very intense spa? Whatever it is, he steals all of his clients’/ congregants’ money and then kills them with a special drug that makes them drown themselves/ have heart attacks. And he’s very proud of his villainy, which I love. Other salient Skull-Face features:
-caveman butler named Sam
-underground, partially-flooded castle in Maine
-leaves tiny ivory skull as a calling card at the scene of his victims’ deaths, thus undermining his own careful planning of natural-seeming causes
-hunted by the swimsuit-clad sister of one of his victims
-despite living in a partially-flooded castle, cannot swim and thus drowns at the end of the story
Just a really good weirdo villain who they should BRING BACK.
EDIT TO ADD: Hadn’t really thought about what role Skull-Face would fill in the modern DCU but upon 5 minutes reflection you could absolutely make him the head of a beauty product Multi-Level Marketing scheme and keep everything else the same.
SECOND EDIT:
SKULL SCORE: 3/5 Pretty skully but also unsettlingly fleshy.
