(Silver Streak Comics 014, 1941)
The Parson is a weird little dude who takes over a gang of opportunistic London-based looters who have been taking advantage of the ongoing Blitz to make big bucks off of the misfortune of their fellows. Though the gang is initially against the notion of, again, a little weird dude muscling in on their racket, the Parson presses the issue with his powers of hypnotic domination, the source of which is as mysterious and unexplained as the reason for his nom de guerre.
(note the backward-speak in the above panel - this is the only instance of him using Zatara-style "magic words" in the story. After this it's just big-eye hypnotism)
We do, however know the Parson's motivation for taking over the gang: he is in fact a Nazi agent working to destabilize London by encouraging the gang to greater and more violent crime, and he reports directly to - a very rude - Adolf Hitler.
This is a Daredevil comic, which means that the Daredevil has to be in it, which means that he has to get to London somehow. This is achieved by having Bart "the Daredevil" Hill fly a bomber across the Atlantic to the British on a lark. Once he is on the ground, his super-hero intuition is strong enough that he immediately tracks the gang to their bunker lair.
Though the Parson gets briefly gets the upper hand with a little quick hypnotism, the Daredevil's willpower proves too great to be suppressed for long and he swiftly batters the whole gang into submission.
A final note: though the Parson's men are low-down dirty thieves and murderers, they are still unwilling to work with a Nazi, to their moderate credit.
Categorized in: Ideology (Nazis), Power (Mind Control), Professions (Religious)
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