(Smash Comics 007, 1940)
Sometimes a villain is as simple as a hooded gun-runner called the Masked One, and that's who we have here. Also, he is captured by Quality Comics adventure character Abdul the Arab, a name that isn't technically problematic but sure does make the corner of your eye twitch when you read it (plus the comics it appears in meet all the problematic specifications, so your eye is right to react).
The Masked One is actually Webb, a character who could not be more clearly signposted as the prime suspect if his name was Eno Deksam but who elicits the same amount of surprise when unmasked as Abdul's own mother might. Perhaps he was just giving the Masked One the benefit of the doubt in not assuming he'd be so obvious.
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