(Exciting Comics 015, 1941)
The Master is a mysterious new crooks who has been going around town kidnapping wealthy men, and the Black Terror and Tim have been running around after him and trying to figure out just what the heck is going on. The Master is also a classic Bad Boss in the "ruthlessly kill your minions" mould.
As it turns out, the Master has broadly the same origin story as early Batman villain the Ugliest Man in the World, only instead of a medical student who was injected with a random cocktail of drugs and turned ugly in a frat hazing gone wrong, he is instead a chemistry student who was exploded by a random mixture of chemicals in some frat bullying gone wrong. Like his counterpart, the Master (aka Alfred Foster, aka Phillip van Allen) dropped out of sight, acquired a rubberoid mask and established a new identity so that he could enact his revenge on those he blamed for his disfigurement.
Unlike the Ugliest Man in the World, the Master's theming is not strong. He himself is vaguely Egyptian themed, while his henchmen are just a bunch of Malaysian guys who he does not treat very well.
The Master's plan also revolves around gathering up his tormentors so that he can kill them all at once, meaning that his revenge goes almost entirely unfulfilled when he is accidentally killed by one of his own men. All in all a very poor foray into super-villainy.
Revenge Killer Score: 0/12
Categorized in: Accessories (Rubberoid Mask), Generica (Masters), Origin (Extensively Scarred Face)
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