(Whiz Comics 002, 1940)
Hearken back to yesterday's Captain Marvel entry and you will see a tale of woe in which I lament my own poor planning with regard to how I dealt with non-obscure super-heroes. Well, I didn't do much better with name-brand super-villains, I'll tell you what. The Super-Villain Yearbook was an okay idea, but I didn't really have a good implementation. I was going to be cluttering up my indices with links! Instead, we're going to have main entries for the cads and bounders, like this one, and do all the linking to later developments here.
So: Dr Sivana. Known very briefly as the Phantom Scientist in his first appearance, his initial scheme was a fairly straightforward ransom of the US radio broadcasting system. It is wild how thoroughly he is realized in this initial appearance, and how great a difference in quality there is between this story and some of the ones I've been reading lately.
A deadly enmity is almost instantly established between Captain Marvel and Dr Sivana. Not only do they hate one another forever, but Captain Marvel is pretty clearly trying to kill Sivana as the other way around for the first couple of years. Anyway: top notch villain, little creep, very fun.
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CHILDREN:
Beautia Sivana (Whiz Comics 003b, 1940)
Magnificus Sivana (Whiz Comics 015, 1941)
FULL NAME:
Dr Thaddeus Bodog Sivana
HENCHMEN AND CREATIONS:
the Beast-Ruler (Captain Marvel Adventures 003, 1941)
Z (Captain Marvel Adventures 001, 1941)
MISC
This is a pretty good Dr Sivana thesis statement. (Whiz Comics 020, 1941)
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