(Mystery Men Comics 001, 1939)
I have made an error! Two errors! The first was in skipping the Blue Beetle's very first foe, and it was because of the second, that I had the antagonist in this story marked down as the White Face Gang rather than the White Face, plus his gang. If it was the former, the best their unnamed leader would get was a place in the Generic Costumed Villain Round-Up, but no, he has a special name!
Mind you, he's still a very unremarkable guy: a banker's personal secretary gone bad, ho hum. Much more interesting is the Blue Beetle's original suit-and-tie-vigilante costume and modus opperandi, down to a Green Hornet-like facade of criminality, the better to lure crooks into his confidence. It was gone by his next appearance, but he had it and that's all that matters.
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