The Curse of Skeleton Munroe

Category: extortionist

  • MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 078: MR GLIB

    (All American Comics 011 & 013, 1940)

    What makes them a super-villain? He’s a guy who kind of looks like Satan (named I.M. Glib, natch) who uses such as invisibility fields and food spoiling chemicals to ransom cities and US Senators. A slam dunk, definitional villain.

    What about them is interesting? He’s a Golden Age scientific villain who made two appearances and used the same technology in both of them. This is almost unprecedented, I assure you – ordinarily someone who made their first foray into crime with invisibility tech would be sporting a time machine or an army of robots in their second.

  • MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 068: THE MASTER

    (Action Comics 030, 1940)

    I’ve decided to introduce a system for dealing with some of the more minor super-villains who do not incite as much excitement in me to vomit out more than a cursory sentence about them (slightly unfair to the Master, who is kind of interesting, but I am uninspired today) In such cases, we will be answering one or both of the following questions:

    What makes them a super-villain? In addition to his super-villain name, the Master has three qualifying super-villain attributes

    1) Methods: he kills those who resist his extortion attempts by releasing huge poisonous beetles in their homes.

    2) Powers: the Master, unlike many of Zatara’s opponents, is a magic user. Specifically, he has the ability to resist and shrug off Zatara’s own magic

    3} Association: he employs the services of the Tigress

    What’s interesting about them? Honestly, it’s the idea of a crook being able to resist a magical hero’s powers. Underused and underappreciated!

  • MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 068: THE MASTER

    (Action Comics 030, 1940)

    I’ve decided to introduce a system for dealing with some of the more minor super-villains who do not incite as much excitement in me to vomit out more than a cursory sentence about them (slightly unfair to the Master, who is kind of interesting, but I am uninspired today) In such cases, we will be answering one or both of the following questions:

    What makes them a super-villain? In addition to his super-villain name, the Master has three qualifying super-villain attributes

    1) Methods: he kills those who resist his extortion attempts by releasing huge poisonous beetles in their homes.

    2) Powers: the Master, unlike many of Zatara’s opponents, is a magic user. Specifically, he has the ability to resist and shrug off Zatara’s own magic

    3} Association: he employs the services of the Tigress

    What’s interesting about them? Honestly, it’s the idea of a crook being able to resist a magical hero’s powers. Underused and underappreciated!

  • MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 046: THE BOMB

    (Whiz Comics 003a, 1940)

    Explosives expert who blowed himself up and lived to tell the tale, only to go back into explosives-based crime, go up against Dan Dare (the Fawcett Comics detective, not the UK comics space guy) and get caught.