(Batman Comics 008, 1941)
I got pretty excited when reading this story, as it concerns murders among the cast and crew of a play called the Superstition Murders and there's a lot of kerfuffle about bad luck and jealousy and drunk has-been actors and I was hopeful that it might boil down to my favourite motive for supercrime: mad art. Just as mad as mad science but it really makes you think, you know?
Sadly, the real motive for the crimes is simply base capitalism: if playwright Johnny Glim (good name) can tank the production, rights to the script revert to him and he can sell it to Hollywood for beaucoup bucks. But while you know I am all in favour of creator-owned properties I cannot stress enough that multiple homicide is not a good way to go about securing them and his capture by the Batman is a righteous one.
Number of Episodes of the "Super-Villains of Hollywood" podcast: Part of a poorly-received later season attempt to profile villains who almost got to Hollywood.
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