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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 973: THE MASTER MIND

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 973: THE MASTER MIND

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(Fight Comics 011, 1941) Just when the futuristic (i.e., early 2000s) nation of Greater America thinks that it can relax, it is simultaneously attacked from both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans! Acting quickly, Saber, aka the Spy Fighter, super-powered Head of Greater American Espionage, sets out to discover who is behind this dastardly deed.  Saber uses his telepathic abilities to trace the impulses that are directing the armies to an isolated outpost where he finds a fellow variously referred to…

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GENERIC COSTUMED VILLAIN ROUND-UP 043

GENERIC COSTUMED VILLAIN ROUND-UP 043

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You give a guy access to a mask and some super-science and how does he repay you? Crime! Karno: The dapper Karno has a cool flying submarine, a metal-melting weapon and a plan to combine the two and do some old-fashioned piracy with them. He thinks that this scheme will be enhanced by the expert submarine piloting skills of Sub Saunders, but quickly learns the same lesson that all villains do upon incorporating a hero into their plans: it’s more hassle than…

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FASCIST GOON CLEARING HOUSE 014

FASCIST GOON CLEARING HOUSE 014

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Surely fascists will stop being such a problem eventually, right? the German Help Club: Probably the most straightforwardly cynical version of the German American Bund that we’ve seen so far, the German Help Club is simply a mass extortion scheme in which the German-American residents of NYC are forced to give up 15% of their earnings or see their relatives back in Germany be persecuted and jailed. Pat Patriot breaks them up with extreme prejudice. (Daredevil Comics 006, 1941) Gorilla-Suited…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 609 UPDATE: LUCIFER

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 609 UPDATE: LUCIFER

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When we covered the Fourth Dimensional being called Lucifer, who might be the for-real Devil (if the Fourth Dimension is also the afterlife) and might just be a big weirdo (if it isn’t), I said that we would see him again. Well here he is! Flip Falcon next encounters Lucifer after he takes a woman named Nora into the Fourth Dimension in order to heal her face, which was scarred with acid by a vindictive man. This is a noble…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 968: THE BLACK RIDER

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 968: THE BLACK RIDER

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(Fantastic Comics 018, 1941) The Black Rider is a ruthless bandit chief who has not only terrorized the countryside but has had the audacity to kidnap Bill Carrol, Captain Kidd’s best friend, an unforgivable sin. While the Black Rider & Co. might look like they are straight out of a comic set in the American West, Captain Kidd’s 1941 adventures have taken place exclusively in Africa, and given the mention of a city called Tanga above, I think that we…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 967: THE FANG

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 967: THE FANG

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(Fantastic Comics 017, 1941) The Fang is a recurring villain in the mould of his Fox Features contemporaries the Rook and the Beast: you can knock him down and seemingly kill him as much as you want but he’s just going to keep on coming back to do more crimes. When he first appears, the Fang’s major goal is to acquire the Burma Emerald from its caretaker Princess Kava, in order to decipher the secret of invisibility that has been…

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GENERIC COSTUMED VILLAIN ROUND-UP 042

GENERIC COSTUMED VILLAIN ROUND-UP 042

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Celebrated by none… until now. And then only mildly. Slavin: This masked man is the leader of a gang who have been systematically robbing warehouses and then burning them down. The culprit turns out to be Slavin, the general manager of the warehousing company, and not the red herring suspect Slivers, owner of the company (who is ugly, and therefore more likely to be evil than the handsome Slavin). PI Dan Williams is too enlightened to judge others based on…

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MAD AND CRIMINAL SCIENTIST ROUND-UP 024

MAD AND CRIMINAL SCIENTIST ROUND-UP 024

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Let’s spare a thought for all the mad lab assistants who do so much for so little credit.  Rokula: Rokula’s plan is simple: kidnap inventors and then use his mind control machine to force them to work for him. Hey, it’s a classic for a reason, but it’s also a plan with a high chance of attracting super-heroic attention such as that of Zongar the Miracle Man.   Rokula might be a fan of the classics but like so many of…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 965: DR THORNE

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 965: DR THORNE

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(Fantastic Comics 014, 1941) We open on a mysterious figure using backwards-talk magic to raise hundreds of spirits from their graves and shunt them into the Fourth Dimension. To what end? We shall learn that soon! Flip Falcon, expert in all things fourth dimensional. is contacted by Dr Thorne of the Institute of Science asking for help with this problem. You might have noticed that Dr Thorne is also the name of Minor Super Villain 965, and that is because…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 964: THE SHARK

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 964: THE SHARK

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(The Face 001, 1941) “Sparky Watts” was a long-running comic feature in Big Shot Comics and other Columbia publications about the eponymous Sparky Watts, a down-on-his-luck young man whose life turns around when scientist Doc Static gives him super powers using his cosmic ray machine. Having started out as a comic strip, Watts’ adventures tend to hew closer to the comic adventurous rather than the super-heroic. Still, every once in a while he encounters a minor super-villain such as the Shark. The…

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