Tuesday, August 23, 2022

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 122: THE GREEN DEVIL

(Slam-Bang Comics 003, 1940)


I really like the Green Devil. He has a lot going on! He has an army of the living dead, an island base, and a hurricane generator. He's conservatively 10 ft tall and looks like the Devil (with green skin, natch)



His main scheme is to disrupt the laws of magic, which not only weakens his enemy Diamond Jack's magic ring but also for some reason causes regular stage magic and stuff like snake charming and sword swallowing to turn deadly in some of the more low-key gruesome panels I've read recently.


Finally, in classic magic villain style he meets a pretty ignoble end as he is transformed into a book and then blown up along with his HQ and zombies. A solid showing! I'd love to see the Green Devil BRUNG BACK to vex magic folk again.

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