MAD AND CRIMINAL SCIENTIST ROUND-UP 005

Just a little crypto-fascist saboteur named Dr Vee who battled Dynamic Man but I like his name and I like his style. His sartorial style. Not the fascism. (Mystic v1 002, 1940)

Lemo here has a mechanical mole-style tank and reckons he can take over the world with it after almost destroying one (1) circus tent. It's a good thing he was blown up by one of Marvel's many Herculeses before he could get too far and get disappointed. (Mystic Comics v1 004, 1940)

This fellow, known only as the Mystery Man, has been working on the problem of how to counter snipers in warfare, and the scheme that he has come up with involves breeding up vicious wolf-dogs, training them to hate a particular smell and then applying that smell to the shoes of enemy combatants so that the dogs hunt and kill them. There's a slight problem with this plan that the two crypto-fascist gentlemen that he's trying to sell this system to don't seem to come on to, even when he offers to sell them the scent and the dogs and doesn't mention offering a dedicated group of scent-applying agents (or maybe he had some smaller dogs trained to do the job and he was going to upsell them later).

The Mystery Man only gets caught because he has been picking up hitchhiking college students and using them to train the dogs and the person responsible for their safety is friends with giant super-hero Mighty Man and long story short the Mystery Man gets eaten by dogs. (Amazing-Man Comics 009, 1940)

This here unnamed fella has a four-step plan: 

1. Capture the Iron Skull 

2. Inject the Iron Skull with a serum that turns him completely to iron

3. Inject his iron blood into robots to make them alive somehow

4. Profit

Steps 1 and 2 go fine but as seen above a major flaw in the plan is that the Iron Skull is now more powerful and mops the floor with his erstwhile captor. The robots don't even show up! (Amazing-Man Comics 015, 1940)

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 463: PROFESSOR MONTE

(Mystic Comics v1 004, 1940)

Professor Monte is the type of criminal scientist that I want to see in more comics: he has an idea (develop a gold-attracting magnet and use it to steal gold), he secures funding from crooked businessman Prentiss, he tests his device with a series of jewelry store robberies before scaling up to using the big dirigible-mounted model... he has a plan, in other words, rather than a vague idea of how they're going to take over Newark using their amazing new food additive or gun that fires grass seed.

And the plan pays off! Professor Monte robs Fort Knox and gets away with it! All he has to do is lie low and he and Prentiss and all his goons are set for life!

But of course that is too much to ask. Professor Monte is, after all, a criminal scientist and they are not known for their restraint. He is determined to rob the Bank of England as well, and comes close to doing so before running up against the fact that not only is London unusually well prepared for an aerial invasion at the time but that Dynamic Man is on his tail. Ultimately it comes down to electric blast vs hydrogen gas and the hydrogen gas always loses.

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 461: THE HOOD

(Mystic Comics v1 003, 1940)

The Hood is a dude in a sheet ghost costume who is seemingly the head of an extortion gang targeting bankers and ruthlessly killing any who defy him. And perhaps you've noted that "seemingly" and are wondering what it could mean. Well,

This ruthless banker-murderer... is actually a banker! He's Willard Thomas and his extortion scheme was a front for a murder scheme that would have left him, the last banker standing, holding the keys to some sort of joint banker bank account. This is an okay plan! I'm not sure what the dismount was going to be because Dynamic Man beat him up before he managed to kill all other local bankers but the Hood definitely put more thought into things than a lot of the jamokes one here.

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 456: KING BASCOM

(Mystic Comics v1 001, 1940)

King Bascom, the first foe faced by Dynamic Man, is nothing more than a grubby little capitalist pig. I almost forgot to write him and his land-grab scheme up due to disinterest.

Trouble is, while King Bascom is utterly uninteresting he is cocooned in a dense shell of interesting things: his land grab is aided by a drought that he himself is causing using a rain-prevention machine, he has anti-Dymanic Man weaponry and a deathtrap that involves both a descending ceiling and a flood of liquid nitrogen, he's a traitor and a scumbag and a sneering pompous ass and yet I can't bring myself to care about him enough to finish writing this.