(The Comics 002, 1937)
The Gorgon is not the most spectacular villain but does provide us with a couple of interesting contrasts to our last few entries. Firstly, we can contrast him with the Masked Czar and note how his lack of major identifying features enhances the anonymity afforded by a simple black mask.
I assume that he was called the Gorgon because "anyone who has seen his face is now dead" but it would have been nice to have it in the text of the story.
Indeed, the Gorgon's disguise was effective enough that he was able to operate in his capacity as the Assistant State's Prosecutor while also being a masked gang boss. It took fingerprint evidence for anyone to figure his game out.
The Gorgon also provides a bit of contrast with the Falcon here, as his adventure was also abruptly cancelled before the resolution, but where the Doctor Doom feature probably would have continued as a cat-and-mouse game between Doom and the Falcon, the conventions of Crime Doesn't Pay comics like Tom Beatty's are such that the Gorgon was going to be rounded up in two issues, tops.
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