Some real gems here tonite.
Executed gangster Black Morger's four identical sons reconvene twenty-five years after their father's execution to seek revenge on the four people who they consider to be responsible for his death (and for that of their mother, who had some sort of rage-induced heart attack at the instant of Black Morger's demise). To their credit, they manage to kill two of them before the Spirit butts in and foils their plot.
REVENGE KILLER SCORE: 2/4 (The Spirit, "The Morger Boys", 18 August, 1940)
Waxy Morgan is a gang boss with the bright idea to commit crimes while dressed as the Spirit so as to throw suspicion off of himself and his men. This goes poorly for him. (The Spirit, "The Spirit! Who is He?", 13 October, 1940)
This unnamed villain deduces Lady Luck's secret identity by the simple trick of being the only one in the city capable of visualizing a lady in a hat. But though he has this unimaginable deductive power his people skills are lacking, and he fails both to convince Lady Luck to help him kill rich guys and to predict that his huge servant Tortu might eventually tire of being beaten with a whip and subsequently totally pulverize him. (The Spirit Section, 3 November, 1940)
When Mr Mystic has a ski accident in the Carpathian Mountains, he ends up being cared for in an idyllic village that has been cut off from the outside world for 700 years, but which has one major problem: a horrible ogre who lives in the mountains above and demands the sacrifice of one maiden per year or else he will wipe the place off the map with a well-placed avalanche. What's worse, this year the Ogre has demanded a red-haired maiden and the village is fresh out. And what's worse, Mr Mystic's red-haired friend Penny Douglas has just wandered into town.
Anyway, the Ogre turns out to just be some creep hermit who likes making the village kill women for some reason. He manages to yeet himself off the side of a mountain while trying to murder Mr Mystic. (The Spirit Section, 29 December, 1940)
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