(Detective v1 031-032, 1939) The only reason this guy’s minor is that Batman shoots him dead in 1939. I know he’s made a few reappearances over the years but mostly they’re retellings of that first story. Also I guess they’re calling him the Mad Monk now? Weird. My point is that Batman deserves a vampire nemesis so they should BRING HIM BACK. ADDENDUM: it’s very strange to me that in Batman: Red Rain it’s Dracula who vampires Batman and not…
(All American Comics 025-028, 1941) On the list of Obscure Comic Book Characters, Hop Harrigan doesn’t rate very high. Any discussion of Golden Age comic books will eventually mention the teen aviator whose feature was popular enough to support a fan club, radio serial and movie and also ephemeral enough to have completely disappeared from public consciousness around 1948 CE. Most writeups of Hop will mention that he adopted a couple of costumed identities over the years, and while I…
(Detective v1 030, 1939) I like the Master because he is simultaneously brilliant enough to invent a mind control device capable of enslaving a significant portion of the US Government and dumb enough to brag about his machine to a federal agent not ten feet away from it. Machine smashing ensues.