(Weird Comics 005, 1940)
There are exactly two reasons why I gave Dr Hsin his own entry rather than sticking him in the next Mad and Criminal Scientist Round-Up, and the first one is his creation/henchman Mako, aka the Perfect Man. I just can't resist a man with a tube coming out of his head, especially when that man is some sort of cyborg frankenstein.
The second reason is that Hsin's plan - to steal the blood from hundreds of great men and women (up to and including Thor, God of Thunder!) and use it to create superhumans - is delightfully wackadoo. Is this how he created Mako? Is that what the tube is for? The mind boggles.
As so often happens when one creates a perfect being, Mako eventually decides that Dr Hsin is surplus to requirements and tries to take over the entire operation. The rest of the issue is a series of punches: Mako punches out Dr Hsin, then Thor uses the Gauntlet of Thor to punch out Mako and then he does the same to Dr Hsin, making him the most punched man of the issue.
Dr Hsin gets turned over to the authorities, but poor Mako ends up getting blown up with the rest of Hsin's experiments when Thor determines that they are too foul to exist. RIP to the Perfect Man. And also RIP Dr Hsin, because nobody thought to see if he had any poison on him.
No comments:
Post a Comment