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<\/a><\/div>\nAs promised: the Five Fingers of the Hand! Though the Seven Soldiers would go on the fight more than a few teams of super-henchmen, the Fingers are distinguished by being (mostly) pre-established characters. Fun!<\/p>\n
Big Caesar:<\/b> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Big Caesar is whatever. A regular-style gang boss with a good name, elevated by being included in the gang. He appears just this once, in a scheme that involves cutting the power to Broadway and then doing a crimewave in the dark. The Crimson Avenger and Wing take him down without significant effort.<\/p>\n The Dummy:<\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Like Big Caesar, the Dummy appears for the first time in this issue. Unlike Big Caesar, the Dummy would go on to bigger things – so much so that I am declaring him a very marginal full super-villain, which makes this a cheeky Yearbook entry for his 1941. <\/p>\n When first seen, the Dummy has two points of interest: 1. he is an “infamous kidnapper” and 2. he may or may not be a real, inanimate ventriloquist’s dummy. Even his gang is convinced that he is a front for one of their number. <\/p>\n Per his talents, the Hand sets the Dummy up with a sweet kidnapping job: he grabs various Hollywood types and leaves behind a lifelike statue in their place. The ransom is thus to “return them to life”. Sadly, the sculptor that they must have had on retainer to produce the statues is not shown.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Dummy is eventually revealed to be alive, though whether he is a very short human with a penchant for sitting still or some sort of animate wooden doll is not explored. Also unexplored: why the Dummy’s back room is full of duplicates of the statues that he has already left in place of his victims, and why he has statues of the Vigilante and his second-best sidekick Billy Gunn – it’s tough to imagine a scenario in which they might be useful (other than as a heavy object under which to trap the Dummy, of course).<\/p>\n Number of Episodes of the “Super-Villains of Hollywood” podcast:<\/b> part of a compilation episode about villains who come<\/i> to Hollywood to do crimes. <\/p>\n Body Count:<\/b> 0<\/p>\n End-of-Year Status:<\/b> Captured <\/p>\n The Needle:<\/b><\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n