The Curse of Skeleton Munroe

Category: minor super-villain

  • MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 953: THE COUPLE KILLER

    MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 953: THE COUPLE KILLER

    (Daredevil Comics 006, 1941)

    New York’s dating scene is in trouble, as courting couples are being murdered at a blazing clip: six couples in two weeks as the story begins and a seventh just one page in – that’s fourteen people! That’s a person a day! On average!

    Nightro is on the case, but merely patrolling the parks and other canoodling spots is a bust as the killer knows to look out for costumed vigilantes and even leaves a taunting note with the bodies of the unfortunate Mert and Rita. 

    Nightro’s next move is to set up a sting, featuring him in a dress alongside a dummy boyfriend that he can “make love to,” and here I must pause to say that the physical transformation achieved by the Streamlined Robinhood by merely putting on a dress is phenomenal, no matter what kind of shaping undergarments he has on. He goes from a fairly beefy superdude to a slender woman who might be a few inches shorter than he is normally, despite wearing high heels. His face changes shape! This is a Bugs Bunny-level crossdress, is what I’m saying, which means that once the Couple Killer takes the bait he is immediately attracted to the disguised Nightro and so leaves himself open to a left hook.

    There’s a full page of Nightro beating up the Couple Killer, which is a lot for a five pages story but you just have to get as much mileage as you can out of having your hero in a dress when it’s 1941 and that it the height of comedy.

    So, after all that bloodshed and gender-bending, just what was the Couple Killer’s motivation? Turns out that he is actually a fellow known as Lonesome Larry, a known arsonist and misogynist who just got dumped and went “a little loco” and killed fourteen people. It’s not quite a “boys will be boys” situation but these cops sure do give him a lot more grace than he deserves.

    Categorized in: Crime (Killers), Ideology (Misogynists), Murder (Serial Killers)

  • MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 952: WOLF CARSON

    (Daredevil Comics 006, 1941)

    Wolf Carson, gang boss, is in the hospital after being gunned down by his own traitorous associates. Faced with a choice between 1) dying of his wounds or 2) recovering so that the authorities can scoop him up and take him to jail, Carson takes the ever-popular option 3) take the nearby unethical doctor up on his offer to help cheat death via experimental science, in this case a total brain transplant!

    True to his word, the never-named doctor digs up Carson’s corpse that night and extracts its brain, then in a feat of pure super science (particularly given the state the brain must been in after sitting in a corpse for 12+ hrs) transplants it into…

    … A WOLF BODY! Now, just why the doctor chose to do this is never actually stated but I have a couple of theories that boil down to either him doing so as a way to control Carson with the promise of a human body later etc or doing so because he was a terrible guy with a bad sense of humour. Either way, he pays for his choice of donor body with his life. In retrospect, I reckon that his mistake was in leaving Carson unrestrained and then pissing him off severely.

    With nothing else to live for, Carson turns to revenge as his motivation and systematically hunts down the members of the gang that betrayed him. Each murder is accompanied by a trademark “death howl,” which I am counting as a calling card.

    Major complication: Carson has been found, mistaken for a regular dog and taken in by Bart “Daredevil” Hill’s fiance Tonia Saunders, which means that a jealous wolf is now after both Bart and the Daredevil and also Tonia once she realizes just where her dog has been sneaking off to at night. 

    Wolf or not, Carson is no match for the Daredevil and is soon captured. In a rare addendum, we get to see the villain’s trial (and please note the use of the term “brain wolf” to describe him in that newspaper headline – I dearly wanted to use that as his villain name but it’s clearly being used as a description of what he is rather than a moniker). Bart Hill actually manages to put two and two together and determine that the wolf is Carson, upon which the judge sets what I personally would consider a troubling precedent for a super-hero universe by ordering that the brain wolf be summarily sent to the pound and put down. I mean, I’m not a lawyer but that seems bad – some super-intelligent ape c.1976 is going to have to go to the Supreme Court to argue that he shouldn’t be summarily destroyed over a parking ticket.

    Revenge Killer Score: 4/7 (counting Bart and Daredevil as two separate targets)

    Categorized in: Animals (Wolves), Murder (Revenge Killers), Origin (Human Brain in Animal Body) 

  • MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 951: THE DEADLY DOZEN

    (Daredevil Comics 005, 1941)

    We open on a demonstration by one Dr Roe of his invention the Death Detector, which he purports is able to determine if someone is incapable of murder (yellow light displayed), potentially capable of murder (red light) or has in fact murdered someone (blue light). 

    While the implications and legalities of this device are legion (e.g., how does it determine this, does it distinguish between killing in self defense and manslaughter and premeditated murder, would widespread adoption of this technology create a semi-criminal class of Red Light People who are discriminated against despite having done nothing wrong, etc, etc), the really important thing about this demonstaration is that Bart “Daredevil” Hill taunts mobster “Nat” Nattony into going up on stage, whereupon he murders Dr Roe. Would the machine give Bart a blue light for being directly if inadvertently responsible for Roe’s death, I wonder.

    Daredevil makes off with the device in order to keep it safe, but the upside of whole sordid affair was that it provided a means of proving the machine’s efficacy, as before taking off he had used it to search the crowd for Nattony and instead turned up a different wanted murderer. Now the FBI wants the Death Detector and the Daredevil aims to get it to them.

    Nattony’s boss Curly is understandably concerned about this development and calls the nation’s gang bosses together in Atlantic City for a Crime Convention to discuss the matter. After a lot of goofy business with gangsters picking each others’ pockets and so forth, the assembled ranks of crimedom take a vote and determine that the best way to deal with the Daredevil is to pick out twelve of gangland’s most proficient killers and send them after him. Thus: the Deadly Dozen!

    The members of the Deadly Dozen are: the Crusher, Egg Head, Snake Eyes, Skully, Benito, the Butcher, the Giant Killer, the Owl, Satan, the Sniffer, the Turk and Lady Killer, and though I love the idea of this group on many levels (gather together a bunch of vicious assassins! With diverse and distinct idiosyncrasies and fun names! Yes please!) there is one notable flaw with the concept of the Deadly Dozen, and that is that every single one of its appearances takes place in an anthology comic in which there is simply not enough room to spotlight every member of a twelve-strong team. 

    This might be the only story in which each member of the Dozen gets even a token shoutout, rather than mooching around in the background while a couple of highlighted characters get on with the action. As such, we’ll take a quick look at them in the order that they appear in-story:

    the Sniffer:

    The Sniffer stands out from the moment that he appears in that initial group shot, and it’s no surprise that he is the breakout star of the bunch, with his own ongoing feature starting in Daredevil Comics 008. A rough, crude, hairy, flat-headed brute who wears rough clothes and rope belt while everyone else is in a suit or tuxedo, the Sniffer is a real rough-and-tumble rowdy boy. As his name suggests, he also has a superhuman sense of smell, capable of locating, for example, the Daredevil in a warehouse full of criminals.

    Lady Killer: 

    Lady Killer doesn’t even get a line before he is beaten up and hung from the telephone pole he was lurking behind for the Daredevil. Hopefully his name derives from the fact that he is a handsome man and not from the fact that he tends to kill ladies, like his recent fellow Lev Gleason character, but it is possible that we will never know.

    the Crusher and Egg Head: 

    The Crusher and Egg Head fall prey to the ol’ duck-out-of-the-way-when-they’re-about-to-shoot-you-from-two-sides-so-that-they-shoot-one-another trick, but don’t worry, they survive. I’m no gun expert but I’ll bet that they specifically tell you not to shoot at something that’s in front of someone you don’t want to shoot for exactly this reason.

    Both Egg Head and Crusher are mainstays of the Deadly Dozen, with speaking lines in just about every story I scanned through just now. With Egg Head this is likely because of his visually distinct bald dome, while Crusher has the distinction of becoming known as Sniffer’s best friend over time. He even appears in the very last Sniffer story in the far-distant future of 1956!

    Snake Eyes, the Owl and the Turk:

    Snake Eyes, the Owl and the Turk make a decent attempt at ambushing the Daredevil while pretending to be FBI agents, only to be beaten up in pretty short order. I haven’t read through every Deadly Dozen appearance, but I reckon that this poor showing is also their career highlight, which is a real shame in the cases of the very visually-interesting Owl and Snake Eyes.

    Skully and the Butcher: 

    Skully and the Butcher get tricked into shooting and knifing one another, respectively, with embarrassing ease by the Daredevil. Once again they are retroactively fine due to the demands of future stories, though this does call their competence as killers into question somewhat.

    Though the Butcher seems to be just another face-in-the-crowd member of the Dozen, Skully gets a fair number of speaking roles going forward.

    (Skull Score: 1 – just an emaciated face on ol’ Skully I’m afraid)

    the Sniffer (again), Satan, Giant Killer, Benito: 

    Here we have a very contrasting group, with Sniffer and Satan (de facto leader, visually interesting, always in a speaking role) alongside Benito (most boring member, couldn’t even muster up a nickname, I’d be surprised if he ever gets another line of dialogue) and Giant Killer (solid middle of the roader, not just bald but short, probably gets a line now and then). All four of them get tossed off the train, and that’s it for the Deadly Dozen.

    Like I said, I love the Deadly Dozen conceptually and I love the Sniffer specifically, and it’s nice to have those feeling about characters who will be returning, for once. I don’t think that the problem of one dozen being too damn many members to showcase in a single comic, but who knows? Maybe I’m wrong and some hidden Golden Age gem awaits me still.

    As for the Death Detector, not only does it get safely delivered to the FBI so that they can start planning out the dystopian society they’re going to form around it (Gattaca meets Minority Report, I reckon), but the Daredevil is able to lead them back to Atlantic City to round up the whole Crime Convention for use as test subjects. 

    (almost forgot to include this terrific pic of Daredevil vs the Sniffer from the cover)

    Categorized in: Alphanumeric (Twelve), Language (Superlatives – Deadly), Team Index

  • MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 950: HANS MEYER

    (Daredevil Comics 004, 1941)

    Bart “Daredevil” Hill and his fiance Tonia Saunders are accompanying their friends Jeff and Sue Hart on their honeymoon (!) yacht trip when they encounter the killer combo of rough stormy seas and a mysterious lighthouse that sends them right onto a reef.

    Happily for all involved (except two sailors who are swept overboard and never mentioned again) the yacht is merely wedged rather than sinking and there is a convenient nearby island. An inhabited one, even, as is revealed when the owner, a Hans Meyer, boats over to check on his new neighbours. 

    As you might have noted from when he described himself as the local dictator , Meyer is a prime creep who uses a floating lighthouse to draw ships to his island so that he can hunt their crews for sport, a la Count Zaroff of “The Most Dangerous Game” fame. He barely waits until breakfast is over before he hunts and nearly kills Jeff Hart, and only the Daredevil’s timely intervention prevents the coup de grace.

    I must give Meyer credit here: unlike most people in comics who see a costumed super-hero popping up well outside of their normal territory but coincidentally proximal to some people from back home, he actually puts two and two together and identifies the Daredevil as Bart Hill, and he loves it. I imagine that when you hunt humans for sport you are just itching for the day a vigilante-type super-hero crosses your path.

    I also have to give it to the creative minds behind the Daredevil for continuing to think up reasons for him to be wearing that spiked belt. “It protects him against bear hugs” is a valid, if very specific, reason!

    Having trapped the Daredevil in a pit, Meyer gets to brag a bit, and we learn the other part of his misanthropy, as foreshadowed by his leering at the ladies in his initial appearance. Not only does he hunt and murder the men who land on his island but he “marries” any women who do, and as he very conspicuously does not have any women on his island, we must assume the worst for them.

    Despite seemingly bringing along every weapon he owns (including some very uncomfortable looking knives just kind of shoved through a strap around his ankle), Meyer’s hero hunt goes poorly. Through sheer chance, however, he manages to bury and seemingly kill Daredevil by starting an avalanche.

    Meyer immediately scurries back home to marry Tonia Saunders against her will (and just why is the officiant in a cool mask, you ask? Because it was on the cover that way, as far as I can tell) and then gets himself shot by Jeff Hart, who Meyer never actually went back to kill after he was interrupted in the first place and who has seemingly been crawling slowly toward his vengeance the entire time since. All in all, it’s a memorable honeymoon for the newly-minted Mr & Mrs Hart!

    Categorized in: Location (Pacific Island), Murder (Hunting Humans for Sport), Real Folk – Fictional (Count Zaroff) 

  • MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 950: HANS MEYER

    (Daredevil Comics 004, 1941)

    Bart “Daredevil” Hill and his fiance Tonia Saunders are accompanying their friends Jeff and Sue Hart on their honeymoon (!) yacht trip when they encounter the killer combo of rough stormy seas and a mysterious lighthouse that sends them right onto a reef.

    Happily for all involved (except two sailors who are swept overboard and never mentioned again) the yacht is merely wedged rather than sinking and there is a convenient nearby island. An inhabited one, even, as is revealed when the owner, a Hans Meyer, boats over to check on his new neighbours. 

    As you might have noted from when he described himself as the local dictator , Meyer is a prime creep who uses a floating lighthouse to draw ships to his island so that he can hunt their crews for sport, a la Count Zaroff of “The Most Dangerous Game” fame. He barely waits until breakfast is over before he hunts and nearly kills Jeff Hart, and only the Daredevil’s timely intervention prevents the coup de grace.

    I must give Meyer credit here: unlike most people in comics who see a costumed super-hero popping up well outside of their normal territory but coincidentally proximal to some people from back home, he actually puts two and two together and identifies the Daredevil as Bart Hill, and he loves it. I imagine that when you hunt humans for sport you are just itching for the day a vigilante-type super-hero crosses your path.

    I also have to give it to the creative minds behind the Daredevil for continuing to think up reasons for him to be wearing that spiked belt. “It protects him against bear hugs” is a valid, if very specific, reason!

    Having trapped the Daredevil in a pit, Meyer gets to brag a bit, and we learn the other part of his misanthropy, as foreshadowed by his leering at the ladies in his initial appearance. Not only does he hunt and murder the men who land on his island but he “marries” any women who do, and as he very conspicuously does not have any women on his island, we must assume the worst for them.

    Despite seemingly bringing along every weapon he owns (including some very uncomfortable looking knives just kind of shoved through a strap around his ankle), Meyer’s hero hunt goes poorly. Through sheer chance, however, he manages to bury and seemingly kill Daredevil by starting an avalanche.

    Meyer immediately scurries back home to marry Tonia Saunders against her will (and just why is the officiant in a cool mask, you ask? Because it was on the cover that way, as far as I can tell) and then gets himself shot by Jeff Hart, who Meyer never actually went back to kill after he was interrupted in the first place and who has seemingly been crawling slowly toward his vengeance the entire time since. All in all, it’s a memorable honeymoon for the newly-minted Mr & Mrs Hart!

    Categorized in: Location (Pacific Island), Murder (Hunting Humans for Sport), Real Folk – Fictional (Count Zaroff) 

  • MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 949: PRINCESS SHEBA

    (Daredevil Comics 002, 1941)

    1900! Archaeologist Professor Pierce leads an expedition to find the tomb of Princess Sheba in Arabia! Buried alive in a solid gold tomb with a gold cobra perched on her chest, Princess Sheba appears to be meant to be the daughter of the biblical Queen of Sheba. The mummy, her grave goods and praticularly the golden cobra found sitting on her chest are all promptly packed up and shipped back to New York.

    Professor Pierce puzzles over the inscription on the golden cobra for the next forty years, until, in 1941, he decodes it and learns that the cobra is in fact a bottle filled with special mummy-resurrection juice.

    What can a dedicated Egyptologist do in a situation like this, other
    than immediately run to the museum and unwrap the top half of Princess
    Sheba’s mummy so that he can give her the juice. After all, if it works
    it will be a tremendous boon to science, and if it doesn’t, well, they
    probably have plenty of other mummies.

    The fluid works, and Princess Sheba is restored to life as a goth. I was initially going to classify this as a lucky event for Pierce, but it does complicate his life considerably as he not only has to cover up the fact that one of the museum’s mummies is missing but also has an unexpected nude woman who he has implicitly taken responsibility for.

    And a responsibility it is, because Princess Sheba is not only a woman out of time but a complete amnesiac. She learns English and so forth with supernatural rapidity, but Pierce forces her to remain isolated and withholds the information that she was entombed alive because she was born with the ability to control men’s minds with a kiss and used that power for evil in her first life. This turns out to have been a good idea, because as soon as he does tell her she stabs him to death to gain control of the cobra fluid and use her power for evil. 

    Please note that her mind-control kiss is called “the Kiss of Death” and that that is very annoying to me.

    Sheba declares herself the Queen of America and sets about building an army of men to enact her will, though her methodology is a bit weird. She targets powerful and influential men, but the only use she puts them to (that we see, at least) is to cut out their tongues and employ them as gangsters in a pretty conventional crime wave. Is this evidence of a fundamental lack of imagination on her part or is it that despite her rapid learning she is still effectively a child and cannot yet make subtle plans? Or was her brain all shrivelled and dehydrated for a few thousand years too many?

    This is when the Daredevil gets involved after capturing one of her Tongueless Ones and making him write out the directions to her lair – tonguelessness as a tool of secrecy has really lost a lot of its cache as literacy rates have gone up. Sheba goes into the old familiar femme fatale’s “this is the most handsome man I have ever met” routine, and… c’mon. It makes sense when people do that to Superman or the Spirit, or even Batman, as you can see enough of the face to make some sort of judgment, but this guy? Frankly, her interest read as disingenuous and Daredevil is correct in his decision not to kiss her.

    The confrontation between the two ends in a bit of an anticlimax, as Daredevil doesn’t really do anything beyond avoiding that kiss. Instead, Sheba throws the jar of life-juice at him in a fit of pique, then shrivels back into a mummy almost immediately. Like every comic book character who is dependant on a serum for survival she seems to have timed her doses to the minute instead of leaving a little wiggle room in case of unexpected delays. Or maybe the cobra was magic somehow, whatever. The day is saved and hopefully the surviving Tongueless Ones can go back to their old lives in some fashion.

    AND THEY GO BACK TO DISPLAYING HER MUMMY IN THE MUSEUM

    Categorized in: Origin (Resurrected Mummy), Power (Mind Control Kiss), Royalty (Princesses)

  • MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 948: DR HORROR

    (Captain Battle Comics 002, 1941)

    The Sisters of Fear, a trio of witches who either are the Three Witches of “Macbeth” fame or who take a lot of inspiration from them, have a new scheme: to create a horrible creature to spread death and destruction across the face of the Earth.

    As part of the prep for this task they gather together all of their fiendish allies, the Demons of Land, Sea and Air, and I must commend them on being a diverse and fun-filled collection of grotesques

    The Sisters do the “double double toil and trouble” routine – either in homage to the great witches of antiquity or as a callback to one of their own classic numbers, depending – and call Dr Horror into being. There are three things worth pointing out about this guy:

    1. his pupils are little human skulls 

    2. he’s a dedicated nudist

    3. somehow he is a doctor, despite a) having just been created and b) having an innate antipathy toward human society, the only place where being a doctor has any meaning. But perhaps that’s the point – that he cares so little for the mores of humanity that he’s going to adopt that title, our puny certification boards be damned

    Dr Horror is a pretty straightforward guy: he hates humanity, he has all the terrible power of the elements at his command and thus he spends most of his time post-creation blasting humanity and its trappings to smithereens.

    Dr Horror’s depredations are unopposed by any hero. Instead, the forces of nature themselves rise up and destroy him by holding him in place with a whirlwind and then exploding a volcano under his feet. There’s a strong implication that this is because Dr Horror is a being of darkness and evil and that the essence of nature is bright and good, which is all fine but I really resent the implication that the dinosaurs were also evil and that that is why nature destroyed them.

    Dr Horror swears that he will return to avenge himself and the Sisters of Fear (also blown up), but he has not yet managed to do so.

    Categorized in: Generica (Doctors), Murder (Attempted Destruction of Humanity), Origins (Magical Constructs) 

  • MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 947: CAPTAIN SKULL-FACE

    (Silver Streak Comics 017, 1941)

    Nazi U-Boat commander Captain Skull-Face has two major claims to fame: firstly there is his eponymous skull face. Even without that, however, he is absolutely loaded down with Nazi superweapons, any one of which would have been enough to carry a comic book story. 

    Starting off, Skull-Face has a submarine “the size of a big battleship.” Big enough to be mistaken for a small island

    Secondly, the u-boat is equipped with a vibration machine capable of disabling ships’ engines and rendering humans unconscious, which enables Captain Skull-Face and his crew to capture and loot Allied ships with impunity

    Way up in the first set of panels, Captain Skull-Face mentions sending captured ships back to shore to be reused so that he can loot them again. What he actually does is essentially fire them at the East coast of the US like so many enormous torpedoes – the reason that he meets Dickie Dean in the first place is that he and Zip Todd are on the hunt for whoever was blasting ships at them. 

    Finally, Skull-Face’s u-boat is home to a squadron of manned torpedoes piloted by insane men. A pretty rare resource to be expending all at once, might I add.

    Despite all of this advanced armament, Captain Skull-Face is outmatched by boy inventor Dickie Dean. Their encounter culminates in the Captain setting off the volcano at the centre of his own island base and almost getting roasted before being rescued by Dean and his pal Zip Todd and subdued using a Home Alone trap.

    SKULL SCORE: 2/5 It’s a good look but there’s still a lot of flesh on that head. 

    Categorized in: Body (Face, Skull), Generica (Captains), Murder (U-Boat Commanders) 

  • MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 947: CAPTAIN SKULL-FACE

    (Silver Streak Comics 017, 1941)

    Nazi U-Boat commander Captain Skull-Face has two major claims to fame: firstly there is his eponymous skull face. Even without that, however, he is absolutely loaded down with Nazi superweapons, any one of which would have been enough to carry a comic book story. 

    Starting off, Skull-Face has a submarine “the size of a big battleship.” Big enough to be mistaken for a small island

    Secondly, the u-boat is equipped with a vibration machine capable of disabling ships’ engines and rendering humans unconscious, which enables Captain Skull-Face and his crew to capture and loot Allied ships with impunity

    Way up in the first set of panels, Captain Skull-Face mentions sending captured ships back to shore to be reused so that he can loot them again. What he actually does is essentially fire them at the East coast of the US like so many enormous torpedoes – the reason that he meets Dickie Dean in the first place is that he and Zip Todd are on the hunt for whoever was blasting ships at them. 

    Finally, Skull-Face’s u-boat is home to a squadron of manned torpedoes piloted by insane men. A pretty rare resource to be expending all at once, might I add.

    Despite all of this advanced armament, Captain Skull-Face is outmatched by boy inventor Dickie Dean. Their encounter culminates in the Captain setting off the volcano at the centre of his own island base and almost getting roasted before being rescued by Dean and his pal Zip Todd and subdued using a Home Alone trap.

    SKULL SCORE: 2/5 It’s a good look but there’s still a lot of flesh on that head. 

    Categorized in: Body (Face, Skull), Generica (Captains), Murder (U-Boat Commanders) 

  • MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 946: THE GHOUL

    (Silver Streak Comics 017, 1941)

    Here’s the thing about the Ghoul, aka “the Most Dangerous Madman of All Time”: he’s a stock character, the basic 1940s idea of the homicidal madman. He does have an obsession with collecting dead bodies as part of his attempts to restore the dead to life – hence the name – but he’s otherwise very regular.

    There are, however, several interesting things to note in the Ghoul’s appearance:

    First is the fact that the Daredevil’s initial encounter with the Ghoul is said to have occurred “a few years ago,” which is of course very interesting considering the fact that the Daredevil had at this point been operating for almost exactly one year. The reason for this discrepancy is twofold: 1. the history of a comics character is by no means tied to the dates that their adventures are published and 2. nobody involved in the production of this comic expected a pencil-necked geek like me to be counting up dates on his fingers eighty-odd years later. Fun stuff!

    Secondly we get to see Daredevil just haul off and institutionalize the guy. I don’t know if this was as easy in real life as in fiction, but it’s always weird and horrifying when it happens in a comic.

    Once the Ghoul escapes (because of course he escapes, what kind of story would it be otherwise?) Daredevil heads out to find him, but he in turn has come to Daredevil’s house to get the jump on him. Just how does he know where Daredevil lives (and by extension who he is)? This is not explored. In the absence of his enemy, the Ghoul instead grabs Daredevil’s fiance Tonia Saunders.

    Tonia is taken to the Kingdom of the Ghoul (an overgrown island with a cave on it) in the Haunted Lake (a regular lake) and menaced with an oversized axe, but the Daredevil is hot on their trail.

    The Ghoul, for all his reputation, is taken out just a quickly as he was the first time he and Daredevil clashed. Honestly, his entire career as a homicidal maniac has involved the killing of one (1) one man, a cemetery watchman who he beans with a shovel. I just don’t know if he deserves to be locked up in an asylum for the “Hopelessly Insane” rather than treated in a more conventional manner. Oh well: it’s back to the asylum once more.

    Revenge killer score: 0/2

    Categorized in: Accessories (Islands), Murder (Homicidal Maniac, Revenge Killer), Supranormal Beings (Ghouls)