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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 435: KAR THE DESTROYER

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 435: KAR THE DESTROYER

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(Shadow Comics v1 003, 1940) Here is a list of elements that are in the three-issue story that Kar the Destroyer is the antagonist of:  -a dissolving gas called the Smoke of Eternity -a diving bell repurposed as a deathtrap -multiple pirate ships -Thunder Island, a place with a prehistoric remnant ecosystem complete with dinosaurs -Doc Savage Here is how the story made me feel: -bored It’s a real shame because love most of those things! I love Kar’s look!…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 431: EMRO, LORD OF DIAMONDS

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 431: EMRO, LORD OF DIAMONDS

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(Mystery Men Comics 016, 1940) As our story opens, huge diamonds are raining down on Earth. Upon contact with a human, they expand to engulf and imprison them. Earth authorities sensibly contact space hero Rex Dexter of Mars who has once again been sidetracked in his seemingly straightforward quest to travel from Earth to his home planet. In a nice change of pace from most Rex Dexter adventures, Rex and his pal Cynde have not stopped due to some mortal…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 430: THE DEVIL

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 430: THE DEVIL

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(Mystery Men Comics 007, 1940)  I can’t help but love this guy: yes he’s a cheap extortionist who gives himself a scary name to enhance his death threats but he goes to the trouble of dressing up in a devil outfit even while sneaking around so that nobody can see him. And since he’s the antagonist of a Wing Turner story and Wing Turner is a pilot-detective, the Devil is flying around in a fighter plane dressed in little horns…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 429: LORD MARVEL

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 429: LORD MARVEL

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(Mystery Men Comics 004, 1939) Here we see Lord Marvel, a weird little creep who lives on the planet Ursis (as with many planets in the Rex Dexter comics, Ursis is ambiguously placed: Dexter and his companion/ lover Cynde are constantly sidetracked on the comparatively short voyage from Earth to Mars and always seem to end up on extra-solar planets. The writers of Golden Age sci-fi comics often seem to have a fairly fuzzy grasp of the positions and distances…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 423: THE HAWK

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 423: THE HAWK

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(Keen Detective Funnies v2 008, 1939) There’s no bones about it: the Hawk looks like a guy who has a pretty extensive model train setup down in the basement. And he may just! But he’s also a master thief who stashes his loot inside an active Mexican volcano. But the volcano has a tram running up the side, so perhaps his inner train enthusiast is expressing itself in different ways. As always: you live by the volcano lair; you die…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 422: THE MASTER

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 422: THE MASTER

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(Keen Detective Funnies v2 002, 1939) Another day, another guy named the Master. This Master is escaped lunatic Pierre Lacroix, leader of the Hooded Cult and would-be world conqueror. Lacroix maintains the loyalty of his cult via drug addiction and has a castle HQ. This is all penny-ante stuff. The most important thing about the Master is his shirt. It’s like, a sweatshirt with attached cowl? Obviously other villains have been doing similar things with robes for years at this…

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MAD AND CRIMINAL SCIENTIST ROUND-UP 003

MAD AND CRIMINAL SCIENTIST ROUND-UP 003

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They may not be the top of the class, but they did their time in the evil sciences! Dr Eric Karlin has a lot of moxie on paper: a Nazi psychologist with a sideline in Egyptology, he dissolves the enemies of the Reich in acid and keeps their jellied remains in a series of jars in his basement. He also employs mind controlled pseudo-zombies in a scheme to recover frozen Nazi assets from a bank vault. The problem is that…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 414: THE POWER

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 414: THE POWER

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(Amazing Man Comics 008, 1939) The worst thing about Minimidget is obviously his name. The best thing about him and his partner Ritty is the fact that unlike your Doll Mans or Atoms or Ants Men they are a) permanently six inches tall and b) proportionally as strong as a six-inch human being – they’re just lil’ guys wearing jodhpurs. A lot of their adventures are not so much about going out and finding excitement as dealing with the problems…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 412: THE TEN KNIGHTS OF DOOM

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 412: THE TEN KNIGHTS OF DOOM

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(Amazing Mystery Funnies v2 012, 1939) The Ten Knights of Doom! Like the Brain of the Robot, more an excuse to talk about their foe than anything else! But here we have to front-load it because you can’t get into these guys without setting things up by talking about Speed Centaur. Speed Centaur is great because he’s one of the very first super-heroes and yet he’s still also one of the weirdest super-hero concepts that isn’t some sort of psychedelic…

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