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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 1002: MASTERMIND

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 1002: MASTERMIND

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(Lightning Comics v2 001, 1941) Lash Lightning, while aimlessly flying around the countryside at night, encounters a footsore scientist named Amy Lane. Turns out that her castle (!) has been stolen by a man named Mastermind and that she has been walking for several hours in an attempt to get help. In a move that always seems kind of rude to me, Lightning immediately flies her all the way back to the castle to investigate. The mysterious Mastermind is no longer present…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 984: THE GHOUL

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 984: THE GHOUL

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(Green Mask v1 007, 1941) The Ghoul has a simple, brutal, efficient racket: identify people who have large life insurance policies, murder them, and then extort the payout from their beneficiaries with threats of violence. What is unclear is exactly how long the racket has been going on, and whether the point we come in at represents some awkward teething troubles or a long-established operation beginning to crumble. Either way, the Ghoul’s last score is a mess: actor John Pierce…

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GENERIC COSTUMED VILLAIN ROUND-UP 042

GENERIC COSTUMED VILLAIN ROUND-UP 042

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Celebrated by none… until now. And then only mildly. Slavin: This masked man is the leader of a gang who have been systematically robbing warehouses and then burning them down. The culprit turns out to be Slavin, the general manager of the warehousing company, and not the red herring suspect Slivers, owner of the company (who is ugly, and therefore more likely to be evil than the handsome Slavin). PI Dan Williams is too enlightened to judge others based on…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 539 UPDATE: THE CLAW (post-Daredevil, 1941)

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 539 UPDATE: THE CLAW (post-Daredevil, 1941)

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In keeping with my decision to split the Claw updates for 1941 by heroic foe, here are the details of his three-issue dalliance with engineer Bill Hopkins. When last we saw the Claw… he was in the Pacific, roughing up Adolf Hitler. But before that, at the end of his long back-and-forth with the Daredevil, there was the small matter of his asking Lucifer for aid and getting it, with the caveat that if he still lost in his next…

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