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Month: September 2022

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 141: THE UNSEEN MAN

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 141: THE UNSEEN MAN

 (Adventure 064, 1941) The Unseen Man, aside from his pretty great name, is fairly run-of-the-mill: an art supply owner or employee who somehow develops an invisibility paint, he subsequently turns to crime and is captured by the Sandman. The reason that the Unseen Man gets such short shrift is that a lot of story real estate is taken up with a subplot of Dian Belmont wanting to be in on the adventure and generally getting in the way, despite discovering…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 140: IKER

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 140: IKER

 (Adventure 064, 1941) Yet another Hourman mad scientist foe, Iker (properly Dr T.Z. Iker, but the only time that shows up is on a mailbox) is a classic Victim of Orthodoxy, having been kicked out of the Science Club by the hidebound Dr Orr for espousing “fake theories”. Said fake theories enable Iker to build a machine capable either of creating lifeforms out of energy drawn from the 5th Dimension or of drawing lifeforms from the 5th Dimension and giving…

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