Saturday, December 10, 2022

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 220: THE IMP

(Doc Savage Comics v1 004, 1941)


An unnamed dwarf performer at the Famous Three Ring Circus, billed as the Smallest Man in the World, the Imp is even more remarkably able to secretly build himself a robotic gorilla-shaped exoskeleton in secret while travelling with said circus.

As is so often the case when a comic character becomes a villain in response to societal scorn and rejection, the Imp ends up taking things too far by using his gorilla suit to rob banks and kidnap the object of his affection, ultimately leading to a confrontation with generic superguy Ajax the Sun Man and one of the more graphic on-panel suicides of the Golden Age.

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