{"id":4689,"date":"2024-01-10T09:09:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T13:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=4689"},"modified":"2026-09-27T18:51:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T21:51:18","slug":"mad-and-criminal-scientist-round-up-003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=4689","title":{"rendered":"MAD AND CRIMINAL SCIENTIST ROUND-UP 003"},"content":{"rendered":"

They may not be the top of the class, but they did their time in the evil sciences!<\/p>\n

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Dr Eric Karlin has a lot of moxie on paper: a Nazi psychologist with a sideline in Egyptology, he dissolves the enemies of the Reich in acid and keeps their jellied remains in a series of jars in his basement. He also<\/i> employs mind controlled pseudo-zombies in a scheme to recover frozen Nazi assets from a bank vault. The problem is that while all of this makes for a dynamite summary, the Blue Diamond story that he appears in is… not very good. (Daring Mystery Comics 008, 1942)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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DeVaux here had a plan to grow regular guys into huge guys and use them to take over the world but made the elementary mistake of trying to kill a friend of super-magician El Carim as his literal first step toward that end – it didn’t go well. (Master Comics 011, 1941)<\/p>\n

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I’m not sure if this guy is even a scientist, but if you’re “the worst foreign spy living” and your name is Dr Evil and your cover as you plan to blow up a NYC analog is to call yourself “Dr Live” well then I can’t help but love you, even if you do get electrocuted by extremely generic Golden Age hero Lightning. (Jumbo Comics 015, 1940)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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And speaking of Lightning, he also battled Dr Tol, who used remote stone-crumbling technology to open up banks for his gang to loot. He also had very cool goggles. (Jumbo Comics 020, 1940)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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