(More Fun Comics 068, 1941)
The Master is... probably Russian. It's the same as all of the "pseudo-German crypto-Nazi" characters that populate comics pre-Pearl Harbor. Reading through the vagueness, he is a scientist whose partner emigrated to the US about the time of the Russian Revolution while the Master stayed behind. Now the Master wants revenge for his partner's success and also is gearing up to take over the world and he's using his sonic death ray device to achieve both tasks. Or would do, if Dr Fate wasn't around to poke his helmeted nose into things.
By far the coolest thing about the Master is the depiction of said sonic death ray - it resembles nothing so much as an amorphous life-form, which is very cool! More of that, please!
Oh yes, once the Master is foiled he jumps in a swamp and drowns.
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