(Captain America Comics 001, 1941)
I'll be honest: Rathcone doesn't have too much going on. He's your regular style Nazi spy with enough extra sauce to make him stand out. To whit:
-a maxed-out "Jack Kirby draws a weird creep" stat, complete with fangs and talonlike fingernails
-an oblique gimmick whereby he plays out his strategy on a chessboard while his men listen in over an intercom. The custom chess set is of course one of the great super-villain accessories
-most importantly, his henchmen are all called things like Herr Kamelon and Herr Strangler and Number 15 and at this point Rathcone could be removed from the equation entirely because all the villainous side dishes are there for my delectation.
Rathcone's final claim to fame is simply the fact that he makes it through the adventure alive, which I would not have put money on given the survival rate of the other Marvel super-villains on our list.
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