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GENERIC COSTUMED VILLAIN ROUND-UP 049

GENERIC COSTUMED VILLAIN ROUND-UP 049

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There’s a certain type of guy who just wants to put on a costume and belong to a group. This usually ends poorly. the Narcotic Gang: These fellows really know how to make heroin smuggling look grandiose, although the weird antennae-hoods really take the shine off of their cool double-breasted robes. Despite all the ceremony and cool rings and whatnot, they are brought to justice by reporter Red Logan without much trouble. (More Fun Comics 031, 1938) the Night Raiders:…

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MAD AND CRIMINAL SCIENTIST ROUND-UP 025

MAD AND CRIMINAL SCIENTIST ROUND-UP 025

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I feel like we could avoid some of this unpleasantness if we made the Mad Arts a required part of the curriculum again. Unnamed Sorcerer: The Golden Knight and Alice are up to some good old-fashioned adventure, as they travel into the land of Kongola to seek out the cause of mysterious disappearances of people in adjoining Kooran. Just where are Kongola and Kooran? I’m going to say somewhere in what is now the United Kingdom since that that is…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 970: THE QUEEN OF EVIL

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 970: THE QUEEN OF EVIL

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(Fantastic Comics 022, 1941) Nagana, high priest of Isis in Thebes, achieves great power and the secret of immortality through her position and is seemingly consumed with megalomania. Importantly, these magical secrets do not appear to be tied to her faith in Isis so much as accessed as a result of it, as she retains them even after she rejects Isis and declares herself to be her enemy. She sets out to use this power to become the ruler of…

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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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