For the first time in a very long time: the generic costumed villains all have costumes!
Unnamed Costumed Gang:
This unnamed gang has gone to a heckuva lot of trouble to steal the Kalaka Emerald from millionaire Byron Nelson: they've dug out a secret lair under his weird mesa-top home, murdered several of his guests in order to create terror and of course dressed up like the background characters in a costume party scene, presumably also in order to create terror.
Sadly for them, they have failed to reckon with two important facts: 1) that Nelson has already stolen his own gem in order to do a little insurance fraud and 2) that he has hired adventurer Lance Rand to protect the emerald and throw a bit of suspicion off of himself. Rand cleans up the costumed crew with ease, and bags Nelson to boot. (Cat-Man Comics 003, 1941)
Puggsy Sloane:
When famed gorilla Monstro escapes from the Jenks Bros. Circus, the unnamed city is gripped with terror. And the terror is seemingly justified, as citizen after citizen is murdered by an ape and the police are unable to prevent it despite expending all of their manpower in order to do so. Lance Rand is once again on the case, however, and thanks to a tip-off that Monstro is in fact harmless from the circus owner is able to piece together the fact that it is not the gorilla doing the murders but gorilla-suited gang boss Puggsy Sloane. Why is he doing so? Why, to stretch the police force to the limit and distract them from all of the robbing that his gang was getting up to, of course. (Cat-Man Comics 004, 1941)
Categorized in: Accessories (Style (Gorilla Costume))
Dr Carl Resdale:
Dr Resdale, a famous plastic surgeon, has been operating a face-changing service for criminals out of the old disused family manor for the last twenty years and NOW the rest of the family is looking to use the manor and he has to scare them off by sneaking around in a mask and getting up to spookiness. And not only does he have to keep his young relatives from living in his place of work but he must conceal the fact that he killed his own brother in the manor twenty years before (this is why it's disused).
Fear not for the younger Resdales, because Dr Miracle is on the case, the villain is soon deprived of his low-effort mask. (Champion Comics 012, 1941)
Brady:
A masked killer working for a gambling syndicate active in the Florida horse tracks, Brady's signature weapon is a club with a horse shoe nailed to it to simulate a deadly horse kick to his victims' heads. While a neat little murder weapon, this isn't quite enough to help him when he comes up against Johnny Fox. (Champ Comics 015, 1941)
Categorized in: Accessories (Weapons (Clubs))
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