Sunday, August 7, 2022

MINOR SUPER -VILLAIN 103: THE BAT

(More Fun Comics 055, 1940)


An economics professor who dresses in a bat-winged robe and injects college students with experimental "artificial blood" while they sleep, the Bat is probably more the story of a man's mental breakdown than a super-villain.

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