(Flash Comics v1 019, 1941)
The Scarlet Mermaid is elegant in her simplicity: she's a good swimmer who lives near a river where a lot of rich people hang out on boats, so she swims out and robs them. That plus a great name (and an okay costume - could use a contrasting colour) make for a winning combo.
Even a cool villain must eventually reckon with a super-hero, however, and the Scarlet Mermaid ends up being one of the King's few non-Witch opponents and is captured without much complication, never to appear again. This is a shame, because, like the Black Gondolier before her, I reckon that the Scarlet Mermaid is exactly the sort of low-level supercrook that should be lurking around every city in every super-hero universe. Some great grandniece of hers should be robbing megayachts to this day, dang it. BRING BACK the Scarlet Mermaid!
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