Thursday, July 21, 2022

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 081: THE WOLF

(Batman Comics 002, 1940)

Batman's first Jekyll/ Hyde style villain is Adam Lamb, a meek museum curator who gets bonked on the head while reading a murder mystery and thereafter heads out at night to cause mayhem as crimelord the Wolf. Batman eventually figures out that his crimes are following the sequence of those in the book and the Wolf's career ends with a second, fatal head bonking.

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