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Finally, FINALLY, after 300 of these guys an arbitrary milestone lines up with a reasonably cool character: the Ringmaster of Crime AKA the Ringmaster of Death. Compounding the fun of the circus of crime aesthetic is the fact that some of that good-style retconning has been going on and the Ringmaster in this tale has been made the father (and presumably later grandfather, per Marvel’s sliding timeline) of the mid-level super-villain the Ringmaster! Uh, if saying that someone is someone else’s grampaw is a retcon, that is.<\/p>\n
The practical upshot of this is that this Minor Super-Villain writeup also<\/i> functions as Super-Villain Yearbook, 1941 for the Circus of Crime, which, as a family-owned business entity, is contiguous with the version that reappeared in the 60s even though no individual members reoccur.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n All that said, the Ringmaster himself is a fairly regular Nazi creep super-villain. Sure he’s got the Jack Kirby villain snake-man look that we all love to hate but compared to his descendant (or, indeed, a regular circus ringmaster) he’s a positively dour dresser – his actual theming is pretty weak, when you get right down to it.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Although we must not neglect the Wheel of Death, a perfectly cromulent random victim generator that the Ringmaster presumably stole from one of the sideshow games and spends hours\/day applying all the little faces to.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n