Thursday, September 15, 2022

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 154: THE YELLOW-FACED TERROR

(All-Star Comics 002, 1940)


What makes them a super-villain? He's a money-mad maniac who murdered his own brother to steal a radiation-orb called the Life-Taker, which he uses to rob by the simple act of lobbing it into an area and waiting until it has killed any resistance. He also has a pretty great look, achieved via a crust of a sulphur/lead compound which shields him from his own orb's radiations. What he doesn't really have is a name, so I snitched the one used in the above text box.

What's interesting about them? Well, it's a bit debatable but the Sandman might have murdered him. He discovers Wesley Dodds' secret in the course of the adventure and then in the final struggle... it kind of looks like the Sandman arranges for him to be shot through the head a bit more enthusiastically than needed. Maybe.

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