Wednesday, May 11, 2022

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 005: KOTH

 (More Fun 014, 1936)


Another Dr Occult foe (and thus another early Siegel and Shuster creation), Koth is a fairly generic magic guy, for all that his origin involved being a magic alien who swore to destroy humanity when his companions were slain by cavemen.

Unlike the preceding minor villains, Koth has gone on to appear in more modern comics, though whether any of them were set in the modern day as opposed to being period pieces is something I'm not sure of..


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