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SUPER-VILLAIN FILE 004: WOTAN

SUPER-VILLAIN FILE 004: WOTAN

(More Fun Comics 055, 1940) Wotan is the poster child for the class of mid-tier super-villain who figure into a super-hero’s early adventures and thus get to keep coming back any time someone wants to get back to basics on them. In this case, as the first and also the first recurring foe of Doctor Fate, he crops up every decade or so and gets few new details added to his backstory. When we first meet Wotan he seems to…

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SUPER-VILLAIN YEARBOOK: WOTAN 1940

SUPER-VILLAIN YEARBOOK: WOTAN 1940

What was Wotan up to in 1940? A trip back in time! A year or so ago when I was reading the 1940 issues of More Fun was before I started doing Super-Villain Yearbook posts and so I skipped poor Wotan, an injustice compounded by the fact that he is what I would call a Median Villain: one who has either enough appearances or importance to a hero’s history to be more than a minor villain but without the name…

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