(Action Comics 021, 1940)
The Master of the Moor is part of the kind of comic story that starts out overly complex - the corrupt sheriff and coroner of a small town in Sussex, England plot to replace local aristocrat Lord Ralway with a double in order to steal his lands - and with the addition of a few comic book elements becomes just completely untenable. To whit:
-the man who they have recruited to be the double, the Master of the Moor himself, seems to be Way Too Into his role, as witnessed in the above panel. If any crime required a cool and measured hand it would be the impersonation of a public figure. Costumes and code names and oh, let's say trained giant condors used to assassinate witnesses are a bit too flashy for such a sneaky task.
-they decide to proceed with the replacement despite the fact that the famed magician and super-hero Zatara is visiting. Now, it's sometimes hard to judge just how famous Zatara is supposed to be in these comics, despite his fairly well-publicized world-saving exploits, but any visitor is surely an undue risk in such an operation, right?
Anyway, they get well and truly magicked up.
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