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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 239: DR BRINE

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 239: DR BRINE

(Flash Comics v1 008, 1940) Dr Brine should be in the soon-to-be-unveiled first roundup of minor mad and criminal scientists who don’t quite qualify as super-villains. He’s a guy in a purple pin-stripe suit who has a plan to steal a bunch of submarines and then profit from that somehow. There are two very important reasons for his inclusion here: 1. He’s either a guy who named himself Dr Brine after getting into the submarine piracy game or (even better)…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 183: X-1

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 183: X-1

(Crack Comics 003, 1940) What makes them a super-villain? While X-1 is concerned with that most banal of crimes, insurance fraud, he does it at scale, employing a fleet of pirates in souped-up submarines to steal his own goods and sink his own ships for the sweet cash payout. What is interesting about them? Well first off, his real name is Wilhelm Wotan, a true banger of a moniker the likes of which we have seldom seen so far. A real villain’s…

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