(Crack Comics 015, 1941)
I love the Werewolf, and here's a list of the things I love about him:
-His name: He has the unlikely handle of Prescott Taunton. A minor point but a good one.
-His motivation: Prescott is a writer. Specifically, he wrote a book about lycanthropy and then shopped it around enough to get rejected at least seven times. And then he started murdering the people who rejected his work.
-His ambiguous lycanthropy: Is he a werewolf or just nuts? In the real world the answer would be the latter, but in a comic book universe there's room for the kind of low-grade feral human style of lycanthropy that appears to be on display here, which I love. He does seem to have undergone some minor physical changes so I'm inclined to believe that he's the real deal.
-His ease of capture: Though he puts up a bit of a fight and manages to flee his penthouse lair when the Clock and his pal Pug show up, it's a very short reprieve as he doesn't even make it to a proper second location, being knocked out in one punch on the street below.
It's been a while since I said that a villain should be BRUNG BACK but I'm saying it now - homicidal sensitive-to-rejection possible werewolf writer is a fun villain hook! Lift the story entirely and give it to the Creeper or someone!
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