Friday, July 22, 2022

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 085: BOSS X

(Blue Beetle Comics 002, 1940)


What makes them a super-villain? In thinking about this question I realized just how close comic book-style organized crime comes to supercrime to begin with and that Boss X represents the bare minimum of extra oomph required to make the leap to the super-villain designation: the name and the fact that he works out of a secret underground lair on an island.

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