Friday, October 21, 2022

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 186: THE JAY BIRD

(Crack Comics 005, 1940) 


The Jay Bird is one of my favourite minor super-villains of all time, I reckon. He's just a guy in a bird mask with a gimmick that is simultaneously very simple and far too complex and dangerous: he simulates flight via a very long tether that is dangling him from a plane. Thus equipped, he swoops down and robs various targets on the streets of New York City, quipping all the time. He's great!

The real unsung hero here has to be his pilot, Spike, for managing to not smear the Jay Bird across a skyscraper the first time they tried this. What a guy! Sadly he was killed in the Jay Bird's encounter with the Clock.

No comments:

Post a Comment

SUPER-HERO 007 UPDATE: NAMOR THE SUB-MARINER 1940

He's back and newly benevolent after a five-minute speech from Betty Dean, so what does he do now? Marvel Mystery Comics v1 005 sees N...