(Detective Comics v1 057, 1941)
A simple concept but a good one: the Fencer is the head of a vaguely-Axis espionage group that has been trying to kill anti-fascist author Jules Vortez for the past two issues using methods including causing plane crashes while still on the plane, duplicates, hypnosis and, sadly, blackface. Aside from the latter, this is exactly the sort of over-the-top behavior that should be going on all the time in a super-hero universe, so it's only appropriate when the leader appears in costume, declares himself the "greatest fencer the world has ever known" and initiates a duel to the death with US secret agent Bart Regan.
Unfortunately for the Fencer, though he ends up skewering Regan he doesn't do a good enough job to finish him off and their duel soon resumes as a good old American punching competition, one which the Fencer loses. Still, a good show while it lasted!
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