The Clock flatlines himself in order to solve a murder by speaking to the victim in the afterlife. (Crack Comics 010, 1941)
Decoration:
Jaspar Crow’s got a monogrammed wastecan! (Crack Comics 016, 1941)
Dr Foster’s got a monogrammed lampshade! (Crack Comics 017, 1941)
Names: Tor the Magic Master encounters a counterfeiter with the unlikely name Phrogg Zaarn.
One of the victims of Clock foe the Werewolf is named A.B. Ceedee.
(Batman Comics 008, 1941)
I got pretty excited when reading this story, as it concerns murders among the cast and crew of a play called the Superstition Murders and there’s a lot of kerfuffle about bad luck and jealousy and drunk has-been actors and I was hopeful that it might boil down to my favourite motive for supercrime: mad art. Just as mad as mad science but it really makes you think, you know?
Sadly, the real motive for the crimes is simply base capitalism: if playwright Johnny Glim (good name) can tank the production, rights to the script revert to him and he can sell it to Hollywood for beaucoup bucks. But while you know I am all in favour of creator-owned properties I cannot stress enough that multiple homicide is not a good way to go about securing them and his capture by the Batman is a righteous one.
Number of Episodes of the “Super-Villains of Hollywood” podcast: Part of a poorly-received later season attempt to profile villains who almost got to Hollywood.
Names: (Batman Comics 008, 1941) It was on brand for the Joker to use the aliases “A. Rekoj” and “I. Rekoj” in the last year but I am pretty upset that Batman just used “I. Namtab” and that the Joker fell for it.
(Blue Beetle Comics 008, 1941) In the Dynamo story he goes up against a guy who calls himself the Crime Dealer, a good name for a bland guy.
Riddles: (Batman Comics 007, 1941) “When is a Duke not a Duke?” Answer: the Joker is impersonating a Duke.
One of the more brutal on-panel deaths I have seen:
(Blue Beetle v1 006, 1941)
Two gun-wielding boys I encountered in a short period of time:
(Action Comics v1 033, 1941)
(Bulletman 002, 1941)
Names: (Batman Comics 008, 1941) It was on brand for the Joker to use the aliases “A. Rekoj” and “I. Rekoj” in the last year but I am pretty upset that Batman just used “I. Namtab” and that the Joker fell for it.
(Blue Beetle Comics 008, 1941) In the Dynamo story he goes up against a guy who calls himself the Crime Dealer, a good name for a bland guy.
Riddles: (Batman Comics 007, 1941) “When is a Duke not a Duke?” Answer: the Joker is impersonating a Duke.
One of the more brutal on-panel deaths I have seen:
(Blue Beetle v1 006, 1941)
Two gun-wielding boys I encountered in a short period of time:
(Action Comics v1 033, 1941)
(Bulletman 002, 1941)
Names: Green Lantern encounters a villainous pharmacist named Mortimer Pestle (All American 029, 1941)
Secret Knowledge: I checked all of the wikis and the blogs and this is the only place you’ll find this info: Whitey Smith and Blooey Blue of Golden Age quartet Red, White and Blue have the real names Whitefield and Heermance, respectively. (All American 033, 1941)
