Saturday, December 23, 2023

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 405: THE VOICE

(More Fun Comics 074, 1941)


"The Voice" is such a cool and evocative name that I have a real bias in favour of it but I have to say that this guy leaves me cold. Basically, he's some sort of science man who has invented a "sound destroyer" capable of dampening all noise in an area the size of Manhattan. His crime-gambit involves employing this device and deploying sign language fluent gangsters to cause mayhem during the resultant confusion, then threatening to continue doing so until the city pays him ten million dollars. Not a bad plan but it does nothing for me.

(He does pull the requisite guy-called-the-Voice trick of only being present vocally by faking out Green Arrow using a radio and a sheet, so there's that)

Ultimately though, the Voice pushes his luck one too many times and is foiled by a simple application of visual signals - flare arrows, in this case. Good riddance to bland voices, I say.

BONUS TROPHY ROOM CONTENT: This is the second recorded adventure of Green Arrow and Speedy and the second time that they add to their trophy case, and this time it's the sound destroyer itself! Always a more satisfying move than destroying (ha ha) the villain's tech.

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