Friday, December 16, 2022

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 224: THE BLACK GONDOLIER

(Doll Man 001, 1941)


I truly love the Black Gondolier, as he is to my mind the Platonic ideal of the kind of crook that every super-hero universe should be crawling with: a guy who gets together some gadgets and works out a little scheme and very briefly becomes the scourge of shipping in New York Harbor.


Why's he got a motorized gondola? No idea! Where did he get his climbing gear? Doesn't matter! What does matter is that in a world with a Doll Man, of course there's a guy in a motorized gondola scurrying up the sides of ocean liners to rob them. And it absolutly does not matter that he's gunned down by the cops at the end of this story - I am of the staunch opinion that there should always be a Black Gondolier in the (now) DC universe, showing up in the background at villain get togethers or super-prison scenes or getting whaled on by the Creeper in a big event. Bring back the Black Gondolier!

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