Can't keep 'em down for long, these guys.
Look, breeding up a giant amoeba in order to use it to spread terror and conquer the world is one thing, but deliberately going out of your way to feed it "pretty girls" is some real twisted incel shit. It's a wonder that Dr Jorgen here just ends up in jail and not in the
Dr Borgia is a weird creep who becomes... infatuated? obsessed? with Marga the Panther Woman during a period in which she is working at a circus in the US. Stung by her rejection of his creepy overtures, Borgia conspires with the owner of a rival circus to kill Marga by using the same technique that von Dorf used to give her the power of a panther to give a tiger the added power of a lion, thus making it too powerful fro her to defeat.
(and how galling for the ghost of von Dorf to see that Borgia knows his secrets after dying in a fire he caused while trying to burn that very information)
Marga is of course more than a match for even a tiger with the proportionate strength of a lion and proceeds to murder not only it but Borgia and his associate Randler. She also gets so fired up by this process that she acquires a kind of feral vampire-from-Buffy look that may not ever appear again. (Science Comics 006, 1940)
With a thesis like "I reckon that humans won't do well when deprived of water," Bulvo here isn't exactly pushing the boundaries or even basics of science. It's just as well that the Eagle ends up blowing him up as he tries to destroy NYC's water supply, as he would have been eviscerated in court, not to mention the mad scientist trade shows. (Science Comics 008, 1940)
Like his nemesis Iron Vic, Dr Spagna here suffers from the fact that the sole story in which he appears is incomplete. What we do know about him is that he used to work with Vic's benefactor Professor Carvel and possibly even on the very serum that Carvel used on the near-corpse that would become Iron Vic, but Spagna was too eager to share his findings and ended up being laughed out of scientific society. This is a common origin story for evil scientist types, but Spagna seems to have taken it harder than most and has been sowing murder and chaos throughout New York City even before the plot outlined in his letter to Vic above.
Iron Vic manages to foil 2/3 of Spagna's plot before the adventure is cut off, never to be resumed (as far as I can tell). Presumably, Vic prevented the bombing of Jefferson Square Garden and brought Spagna to justice somehow, but if that involved further hints or revelations about Vic's past, we will seemingly never know. (Single Series 022, 1940)
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