Tuesday, November 28, 2023

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 383: THE VOODOO KING

(More Fun Comics 066, 1941) 

The Voodoo King is nothing special: a colonial administrator in the the Kangean Islands of Indonesia (meaning that he is probably our first Dutch super-villain), he uses his weird getup and knowledge of chemistry to scare off iron miners so that he can steal the diamonds that are also abundant in the mine. Too bad for him that the mine owner is friends with pilot/ adventurer Captain Desmo and so he gets his clock cleaned.



By far the best thing and also the biggest disappointment about the Voodoo King are the spooky speaker-equipped scarecrows that he uses to scare off the miners - they are very cool looking but I keep thinking that they are weird wicker robots and then getting sad when I remember that they are inanimate.

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