Friday, October 13, 2023

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 361: THE THROTTLER

(Master Comics 019, 1941)


Imagine my excitement when I saw that Zoro the Mystery Man was facing a guy called the Throttler so soon after his bout with the Choker: a theme! A villain theme! Huzzah!


And imagine my disappointment when I discovered that the Throttler moniker was a fiction developed by two butlers to cover for their fairly inept kidnapping scheme. There wasn't even any throttling!

Still, I do have to tip my hat to them on one front: in a super-hero universe, pretending to be a guy with a special name and a gimmick is absolutely the way to give your ransom note a bit more gravitas. Too bad for them that it's also absolutely the way to get beat up by a guy with a pet cheetah.

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