(Master Comics 006, 1940)
While monitoring the world for trouble one day (using his Troublescope, natch), Master Man spots, in quick succession: an auto-gyro creating green rainclouds, a collection of mysteriously paralyzed wildlife, a full-fledged paralysis epidemic dubbed "the Living Death" in a nearby city, and the news that the preeminent scientist working to cure the plague has been murdered. He takes what I would say is a surprising amount of time to put two and two together and determine that these events might just be linked.
The culprit behind all of these occurrences is the arch-criminal known as the Iron Hand, due to his iron hand. He has been dispensing the Living Death disease into the city's reservoir using the green rain, and plans on expanding his operation world wide if he is successful in bringing the unnamed city under his heel. It's a real shame that much of the rest of the story involves the Iron Hand's minions vs Master Man in a series of retreat actions because the Iron Hand himself is barely present and he's just the kind of bombastic jagoff villain I love.
Master Man eventually works his way through all of the Iron Hand's low-level doofuses in time to crash his auto gyro in a lake and drown him. There's a teaser that suggests that maybe the drowning wasn't quite enough to defeat such a cool villain, but as this is the final Master Man comic, it has to stand.
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