(Silver Streak Comics 017, 1941)
Nazi U-Boat commander Captain Skull-Face has two major claims to fame: firstly there is his eponymous skull face. Even without that, however, he is absolutely loaded down with Nazi superweapons, any one of which would have been enough to carry a comic book story.
Starting off, Skull-Face has a submarine "the size of a big battleship." Big enough to be mistaken for a small island
Secondly, the u-boat is equipped with a vibration machine capable of disabling ships' engines and rendering humans unconscious, which enables Captain Skull-Face and his crew to capture and loot Allied ships with impunity
Way up in the first set of panels, Captain Skull-Face mentions sending captured ships back to shore to be reused so that he can loot them again. What he actually does is essentially fire them at the East coast of the US like so many enormous torpedoes - the reason that he meets Dickie Dean in the first place is that he and Zip Todd are on the hunt for whoever was blasting ships at them.
Finally, Skull-Face's u-boat is home to a squadron of manned torpedoes piloted by insane men. A pretty rare resource to be expending all at once, might I add.
Despite all of this advanced armament, Captain Skull-Face is outmatched by boy inventor Dickie Dean. Their encounter culminates in the Captain setting off the volcano at the centre of his own island base and almost getting roasted before being rescued by Dean and his pal Zip Todd and subdued using a Home Alone trap.
SKULL SCORE: 2/5 It's a good look but there's still a lot of flesh on that head.
Categorized in: Body (Face, Skull), Generica (Captains), Murder (U-Boat Commanders)
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