Sunday, May 21, 2023

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 283: N-4

(Marvel Mystery Comics v1 023, 1941)


N-4 is the kind of Nazi spy that really reminds one that the swastika was a costume design go-to for a while there. Gonna be swastikas cropping up basically forever, aren't there. Like Captain Nazi still shows up from time to time, doesn't he.


More interesting than N-4 being one of our earlier costumed Nazis is that they're a trend-based crime villain! The trend: highways! Their whole scheme revolves around the recently-completed Pennsylvania Turnpike and involves a trick switcheroo tunnel that they use to steal tanks in a complicated scheme that foolishly includes framing the Human Torch and Toro for some reason and of course leads to them being caught.


And of course I was using neutral pronouns in that last paragraph because I wanted to obfuscate the fact that N-4 was your old classic female agent posing as a male agent for unclear reasons. Also she got caught because of a deus ex bear trap.

Not a lot to say about N-4, it seems! I'd say sorry N-4 but you are a Nazi, so go rot somewhere.

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