(The Comics 001, 1937)
The Masked Czar is a very minor masked gang boss who provides an object example into why most masked gang bosses are fairly physically average specimens. Villains like the otherwise-unnamed Czar here - the tall, the short, the fat, the thin, the bald or the exceptionally hirsute - tend to go in for different ways of concealing their identities that might stand a better chance of working than a thin strip of fabric. Or they go all out, Penguin style, and lean into their appearance. What I'm saying is: this guy ain't fooling nobody.
The Masked Czar also provides an insight into the process of serialized storytelling, and particularly into the perils of reformatting it into a linear experience. Above are the final two panels of the G-Man Jim adventure in The Comics 001. G-Man Jim certainly is in a pickle, huh?
And here are the first two panels of the G-Man Jim story in The Comics 002, in which we see that he is, in fact, not in a pickle. Say goodbye to the Masked Czar, kids!
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