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Month: December 2023

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 388: THE MASTER

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 388: THE MASTER

(More Fun Comics 068, 1941) The Master is… probably Russian. It’s the same as all of the “pseudo-German crypto-Nazi” characters that populate comics pre-Pearl Harbor. Reading through the vagueness, he is a scientist whose partner emigrated to the US about the time of the Russian Revolution while the Master stayed behind. Now the Master wants revenge for his partner’s success and also is gearing up to take over the world and he’s using his sonic death ray device to achieve…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 387: NEGAL

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 387: NEGAL

(More Fun Comics 067, 1941) Negal is some sort of demon lord who has been allowing ghosts to leave his realm and harass a guy on Earth. He gets very easily intimidated by Dr Fate’s ability to blow up a skull and doesn’t appear again until Countdown to Mystery in 2007, wherein he is a bit more of a threat.

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 386: THE EVIL ONE

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 386: THE EVIL ONE

(More Fun Comics 067, 1941) It’s always simultaneously great and perplexing when someone in a comic story calls themself something like the Evil One. Like obviously there are cackling devil-themed villains throughout comics who are aware of the role they are playing, but theoretically even a crypto-Nazi spy like this fellow believes that they are in some way doing the right thing by their country, right? Is calling yourself “the Evil One” mere propaganda or is it an indication that…

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