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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 989: THE ARTIST

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 989: THE ARTIST

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(Jackpot Comics 004, 1941) An otherwise-unnamed portraitist, the Artist finds himself down on his luck because he refuses to flatter his clients by painting them in anything but complete realism. After his latest client, a banker, literally kicks him out onto the street, he continues to work on the man’s portrait in a hate-fueled haze until he unlocks a power within himself: once he has painted someone’s portrait realistically enough, their soul becomes trapped inside and the husk of their…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 967: THE FANG

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 967: THE FANG

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(Fantastic Comics 017, 1941) The Fang is a recurring villain in the mould of his Fox Features contemporaries the Rook and the Beast: you can knock him down and seemingly kill him as much as you want but he’s just going to keep on coming back to do more crimes. When he first appears, the Fang’s major goal is to acquire the Burma Emerald from its caretaker Princess Kava, in order to decipher the secret of invisibility that has been…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 958: THE YELLOW HOOD

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 958: THE YELLOW HOOD

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(Dynamic Comics 002, 1941) In probably the cheekiest campaign of terror ever, American defense officials are being murdered and then their shrunken skulls are being sent along to places where people are waiting for them with notes reading “Don’t wait for me any longer, here I am.” You may have noticed that all of the skull deliveries involved a man named Professor Curran, and being seasoned comics readers you rightly would have suspected that he was involved in the scheme somehow. It…

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GENERIC COSTUMED VILLAIN ROUND-UP 039

GENERIC COSTUMED VILLAIN ROUND-UP 039

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Those who also ran, we salute you.  Karl the Hermit: Karl, as his name implies, is a mean ol’ hermit who lives atop a mountain. He has has got himself a critter called the Thing that Walks Like a Man that he uses to act out his misanthropic impulses, such as when he sends it to kill his cousin Rushman. What is his motivation for doing all this? Don’t worry about it – he’s a crazy old hermit! Karl’s actions…

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