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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 462: THE TRUSTEES OF HATE

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 462: THE TRUSTEES OF HATE

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(Mystic Comics v1 004, 1940) The Trustees of Hate are a group of villains operating at least nominally along corporate lines, with strategy meetings, what appears to be a board of directors etc. Because their headquarters is in the evocatively named Horror Hall, on the border of the fictional European countries of Borsia and Gratzia, the Blue Blaze is given a new power especially so that he can go beat them up: he returns to his grave between cases and…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 459: THE STAR-GAZER

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 459: THE STAR-GAZER

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(Mystic Comics v1 003, 1940) It must be something of a point of pride for a super-hero to get to the point where they are effective enough that super-villains are being hired specifically to get rid of them, and that’s where the Star-Gazer comes in. A criminal astronomer and/or astrologer, the Star-Gazer is approached by crimelord Dr Gair to get rid of the pesky Blue Blaze. In fact, not only has the Blue Blaze reached “super-villain contract hit” levels, he…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 457: THE BLACK HAWK

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 457: THE BLACK HAWK

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(Mystic Comics v1 002, 1940) Scourge of the year 2300, the Black Hawk and his Mercurian space pirates loot the spaceways of radioactive plinium in a bid to take over the entire Solar System. He’s also a pretty bad father, a fact that comes back to bite him (fatally) when his daughter Alyse teams up with the Space Rangers to take him down. Kids, amirite?

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 453: PROFESSOR MALUSKI

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 453: PROFESSOR MALUSKI

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(Mystic Comics v1 001, 1941) Professor Maluski is the first foe faced by the Blue Blaze after his hibernative period and while he has a lot of cool stuff (huge underground base full of crazy machines, gangster henchmen, a weird gem that flies under its own power and drags its target along in a tractor beam, etc) the real reason that he is getting his own entry rather than being tossed in the next Mad Science Round-Up is the same…

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MAD AND CRIMINAL SCIENTIST ROUND-UP 004

MAD AND CRIMINAL SCIENTIST ROUND-UP 004

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More mad science than criminal science or vice versa? You be the judge!  This guy, who seems to be neither bald nor ironically hairy enough for his name of Baldy Fluger to make sense, has a hypnotic ray and a plan: to use that hypnotic ray for crime. The Green Mask and Domino the Miracle Boy have something to say about that. (Mystery Men Comics 021, 1941) If there was any more to these three (respectively named Boris, Oscar and…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 445: DR DODO

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 445: DR DODO

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(Mystery Men Comics 024, 1941) Gotta say: while I was initially quite excited to have a non-gang boss foe for the Blue Beetle after a run of four or five of them and even moreso after seeing that it was a guy named Dr Dodo who looked like a brute mob from a mid-tier FPS with a supernatural theme (you know, he’d be dressed in a bloody butcher’s apron and take like a minute to kill until you figure out…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 443: THE UGLY QUEEN

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 443: THE UGLY QUEEN

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(Mystery Men Comics 022-023, 1941) The Ugly Queen is our first real foray into the heady world of societal beauty standards as motivation for evil (though there’s an element of that sort of thing in Setap’s first appearance and we’ve certainly encountered a fair few characters rejected by society for ugliness and deformity). Her status as a royal is called into question by the end of her appearances but she does cut a powerful figure, with an undersea castle full…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 441: MAGOG

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 441: MAGOG

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(Mystery Men Comics 022, 1941) Magog clearly has some big plans – he repeatedly sends taunting notes to the police and announces his criminal debut by blowing up a playground full of children – but he is almost immediately baited into the open by a fake newspaper and dies in a struggle with the Blue Beetle so we will never know what they were.

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 438: THE GLOVE

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 438: THE GLOVE

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(Tip-Top Comics 054-056, 1940) The Glove here is the head of a gang of international criminals that come to the attention of super-hero brothers the Triple Terror when they make off with a load of radium. Why the radium, you ask? Why, so that the Glove and his pal Mr Mario (good name) could run their death ray cannon. Unfortunately for the Glove he only ever managed to capture 2/3 of the Triple Terror. The final confrontation does reveal the…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 436: THE HEAD

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 436: THE HEAD

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(Shadow Comics v1 004, 1940) Yo, it’s the Head! The Head is a mystic oracle that takes the form of a spooky head in a box and uses his position as a popular upper crust medium to gather info on crime targets, then sends out gangsters (named things like Squint, Chipmunk and Beak Thungle) to plunder them. The Head is also Zovex, a bulletproof cube-man who is supposedly just a servant of the Head but is mostly just a pile…

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