(More Fun Comics 064, 1941)
Mayoor is an ancient evil god with no in-comic-defined portfolio but if I had guess I would venture that he's the God of Disappointment. Here's the sum total of his plots and plans: enthrall a society adventurer named Bill Credon, who then lures Dr Fate chum Inza Cramer to Mayoor's Yucatan Peninsula temple-cum-prison. Then there's a bit about using her to spread Mayoor's message and worship but unfortunately for Mayoor that's the point at which Dr Fate shows up and kills him.
It's not even a challenge! And Mayoor should have known that he was outclassed, because Dr Fate* is the one who imprisoned him in the first place. About the only good thing about this guy is that because he was such a nothing villain he could probably be BRUNG BACK as a regional threat without a lot of baggage, just bedeviling the heroes of Central America for decades - it's not as if there were any piece of fiction in which it was easy to kill a god, after all. Worldbuilding!
*this story is a few issues prior to the Dr Fate's origin story, so while retroactively it was probably Nabu or someone else wearing the Helmet of Fate who imprisoned Mayoor, in-story it's still Dr Fate being treated as an immortal wizard.
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