(Miracle Comics 001, 1940)
The Unholy One is the major antagonist of scientist-hero the Sky Wizard for three of his four appearances, although for the first two of those appearances he is present only as a voice on the radio directing his American agents Hawk Armand, Vera the Tigress and Butch (a fourth crook, Spud, doesn't make it past the first encounter with Sky Wizard). And here I must lay out my major problem with the Unholy One: he is a bad boss. He has set his agents a task - to acquire the plans to the Sky Wizard's new stratospheric jet plane - and no matter what progress they report toward that goal he yells at them and threatens to kill them. And they always have progress to report! If these three were managed well then I have little doubt that they could do the job set to them but the Unholy One does nothing but sow dissent and stress among his underlings.
The other big problem with the Unholy One is that he's just a boring Yellow Peril criminal mastermind who just kind of sits around in a secret Himalayan city telling his much more interesting henchmen (note the winged Himalayan Snow Man in the above image) to do things and threatening people with the Death of a Thousand Slashes, which ultimately turns out to be a room with a spiked ceiling that lowers and squashes/impales you.
The Unholy One ends his run by falling off of the Sky Wizard's flying island after an unsuccessful attempt to stab him to death and good riddance, I say.
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