(Silver Streak Comics 008, 1941)
A killer stalks the entertainment industry! Prominent people are being murdered, including Academy Award winner Kay Kaye, opera singer Lily Donela and Dick Bradley, recent recipient of the Nobel Prize for "the best play of the year" which I suppose would be for literature? And also very impressive because the Nobel Prize was suspended in 1941 due to the war?
In total, nine luminaries of the stage and screen have been killed as the story opens and all have been found with a note reading "Death by Molo."
The next projected target is playwright Bruce Canton, who is about to be honoured with a banquet. Enter Presto Martin, master of disguise, who poses as Canton and rounds up Molo with little effort. Case closed, the day is saved, etc.
There's just one problem: Canton is murdered at the banquet, complete with calling card, and the witnesses identify the man in Martin's lockup as the culprit.
A little of the ol' disguise routine from Presto determines that the Molo in police custody has a twin brother who is hell-bent on continuing the murder spree. This means that Martin has to dress up like the logical next victim again and act as bait for a killer again, ho hum. The second Molo is captured with ease and thrown into jail with his brother.
And just why were the Molos so hell-bent on murdering successful figures in the entertainment industry anyway? Why, because they themselves were failures back in the dying days of Vaudeville and they just couldn't take seeing other people make it.
THE SUPER-VILLAINS OF HOLLYWOOD PODCAST: One of the least successful episodes in the history of the show. The hosts take the bizarre approach of treating the Molo brothers as victims of the entertainment system and among other things demonstrate that they don't really know what Vaudeville is. Rumours that the podcast was threatened with a lawsuit by the estate of Kay Kaye are unconfirmed, but the episode was quietly removed from the archive after a few months.
Categorized in: Murder (Serial Killers), Origin (Twins), the Super-Villains of Hollywood Podcast
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