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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 746: THE LUMINOUS EYES

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 746: THE LUMINOUS EYES

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(Smash Comics 011, 1940) London is in the grip of terror! An ominous figure with huge glowing eyes is terrifying/attacking people in the streets and in their homes! The city is in an uproar – where could the Luminous Eyes strike next? And to make the whole situation even more confusing, the only purpose of these attacks appears to be the theft of various common items, all green. When there’s trouble in this particular fictional version of London, Captain Cook…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 744: PROXOFF

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 744: PROXOFF

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(Smash Comics 009, 1940) Proxoff is an example of a Kind of Guy that you see in Golden Age Comics: he came through the chaos of the Great War and said to himself “if this ever happens again then I’m going to come out on top.” Together with his aides van Damm and Count Trini, Proxoff has established secret airfields and fortresses in Siberia and presumably elsewhere and is waiting for his moment to swoop in and conquer the weakened…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 743: THE VOODOO MASTER

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 743: THE VOODOO MASTER

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(Smash Comics 008, 1940) Times are tough in Unionville: the local factories are all suffering accidents which appear to be due to systemic worker negligence but which add up to a campaign of sabotage, and since it’s a factory town, if things continue as they are then everyone is completely screwed. Luckily for the good folk of Unionville, the steel mill that the latest incident occurred at is managed by a guy named Tom, and Tom is friends with a…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 742: THE VOICE

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 742: THE VOICE

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(Smash Comics 007, 1940) The Voice! A classic and popular alter ego for a reason – all you need is to be heard more than you are seen and you have yourself a gimmick, and if you have some sort of voice-based super power, well that’s a real bonus. In this case, the Voice is a mysterious figure who has kidnapped Lola Barnes, daughter of wealthy gem collector Sir Sidney Barnes. The Voice demands 100 000 pounds and the Red…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 740: THE DEATH BATTALION

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 740: THE DEATH BATTALION

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(Smash Comics 007, 1940) You’re going to have to trust me because I have gathered no evidence, but I can state with some confidence that the American people of late 1939/early 1940 had a great deal of (perhaps wishful) hope in the effectiveness of the French Maginot Line, right up to the point at which the Nazis did an end run around it and into France. A fair number of war comics of the time (like the adventures of Corporal…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 739: THE AVENGER

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 739: THE AVENGER

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(Smash Comics 003, 1939 – Smash Comics 012, 1940)  The Avenger is a cottage-industry villain, which is a term I just made up for particular kind of villain that you saw a fair amount in the Golden Age and then again in 1980s cartoons, wherein battling and thwarting them is the sole focus of a hero’s career – see also Mr H and the Conqueror. The Avenger is also a revenge-focused villain: he is really Jim Rowan, a man who…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 739: THE AVENGER

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 739: THE AVENGER

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(Smash Comics 003, 1939 – Smash Comics 012, 1940)  The Avenger is a cottage-industry villain, which is a term I just made up for particular kind of villain that you saw a fair amount in the Golden Age and then again in 1980s cartoons, wherein battling and thwarting them is the sole focus of a hero’s career – see also Mr H and the Conqueror. The Avenger is also a revenge-focused villain: he is really Jim Rowan, a man who…

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MAD AND CRIMINAL SCIENTIST ROUND-UP 016

MAD AND CRIMINAL SCIENTIST ROUND-UP 016

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Can’t keep ’em down for long, these guys. Look, breeding up a giant amoeba in order to use it to spread terror and conquer the world is one thing, but deliberately going out of your way to feed it “pretty girls” is some real twisted incel shit. It’s a wonder that Dr Jorgen here just ends up in jail and not in the belly vacuoles of his creation. (Science Comics 006, 1940) Dr Borgia is a weird creep who becomes……

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 737: THE SPOOK

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 737: THE SPOOK

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(Silver Streak Comics 006, 1940)  Continuing from the story of the Panther, Ace Powers ventures into the hole he had left the villain and his Panther Men in, seeking to discover the location of the former and presumably the reason for the deaths of the latter. Making his way through a concealed door, Powers finds the Panther about to be executed by a third villain called the Spook, who states that he is doing so because the Panther failed him,…

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GENERIC COSTUMED VILLAIN ROUND-UP 019

GENERIC COSTUMED VILLAIN ROUND-UP 019

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We may have gotten away from the “costumed” and “generic” is debatable but you can take the “villain” from my cold dead hands.  This guy is part of a gang who: -broke into Fort Knox via a secret tunnel -smashed up up all of the gold and mixed it into stone in a nearby quarry -transported that gold-bearing stone from the quarry to a mansion -melted down the gold and concealed it inside a series of bronze statues And while…

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