THE VILLAINS

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Intro: ADVENTURES OF THE FLY #21

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Group of enemies of the Fly and Fly Girl, banded together to oppose their common foes. Current members include the Spider, Lady Spider, Lxo III, Roxr, Bra-Kr, Dovi, and new members Phantasmon and the Red Shark; former members include the second Metal Master and Karl Rance.

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Intro: JACKPOT COMICS #4, Winter 1942.

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His hatred grants him the ability to capture souls in his portraits and to force his victims to do whatever he demands.

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Intro: HANGMAN COMICS #5, Winter 1942.

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John Wilson is an artist who starts painting of how his victims are going to die. Foe of the Hangman.

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Intro: ZIP COMICS #27, July 1942

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Nazi Super Agent, operating in America. Foe of Steel Sterling.

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Intro: PEP COMICS #17, July 1941

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Foe of the Comet who tries to kidnap John Dickering and capture his brother Bob instead. The Comet dies rescuing  Bob. Bob decides to avenge him and becomes the Hangman. Bob uses the image of the gallows to torment Big Boy Malone and bring him to justice.

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Intro: BLUE RIBBON COMICS #16, September 1941

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     Black Hand battled Captain Flag across several issues of Blue Ribbon Comics (1^st series).  He, unknowingly, was responsible for the birth of Captain Flag.  Black Hand had kidnapped John Townsend, a wealthy inventor who had invented a new bombsight for the Army, in order to extract from Townsend the plans.  But Townsend wouldn’t talk, so Black Hand had his cronies snatch Townsend’s useless and drunken son Thomas to use as leverage.  John Townsend still refused, so Black Hand killed him with his diseased right hand.  Turning his attention toward Thomas with the same intent, Black Hand is interrupted when an eagle crashes in through a window, snatches Thomas Townsend and flies off with him.  During the months that followed, Thomas Townsend repented of his ways, and nurtured by the eagle, built himself up.  One day the eagle arrived at his aerie with an American flag.  Taking this as a sign, Thomas Townsend became Captain Flag and returned to Black Hand’s hideout.  During the struggle with Black Hand’s minions, the mansion hideout was set ablaze.  Captain Flag and Yank (as the eagle was now called by Captain Flag) narrowly escaped.  Black Hand apparently died in the fire.

by John Packer

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Intro: ZIP COMICS #1, February 1940

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An unstoppable crime boss capable of waging war in foreign counties.

*Also known as the Radium King*

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Intro: ZIP COMICS #27, July 1942

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"In the vast expanse of lonely desert, two Arab traders squat solemnly over their repast. Then, as they look up into the skies, an ejaculation of horror is wrested from their lips for there they see the sign of the black seven written in the skies. A seven formed by the stars. An ill omen in Arab folklore..." "Mustaf! See! the sign of the black seven...at this moment is being born a seventh son of a seventh son....inscribed in our holy Koran as a creature of evil!" 

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Intro: PEP COMICS #51, December 1944

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Jackson Carr, hosts  games for the idle rich. He also commits crime as Black Beard the pirate. Foe of  The Black Hood.

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Intro: TOP NOTCH COMICS #43, February 1944

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He carries trick books to help him in his crimes. The some books have blinding gas, some have poison pages, and some exploded. Foe of the Black Hood

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Intro: MIGHTY CRUSADERS (1st series) #1

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An alien villain from the planet K-Shazor, whose mutant brain gave him psi-powers of telepathy, mind-control, and telekinesis, along with great intellect that enabled him to create spacecraft and high-tech weaponry. Defeated and exiled from his home world, the Brain Emperor came to Earth to conquer it, but ran afoul of the Mighty Crusaders. He was defeated in two other encounters with the heroes.

BRA-KR

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Intro: ADVENTURES OF THE FLY #16

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A four-armed green-skinned alien from the planet Gxau, where he manufactured munitions. Bra-Kr hoped to deceive the Fly and Fly Girl into helping him foment war on alien planets against Earth, thereby enabling him to sell more weapons, but was foiled. Member of the Anti-Fly League.

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Intro: MIGHTY CRUSADERS (2nd series) #4

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An "undead" behemoth of incredible size and strength. Member of the Eliminators.

Bullfrog

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Intro: PEP COMICS #32, October 1942.

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Pagini was once one of opera’s greatest talents. A prop man accidentally lets a bullfrog loose. Pagini takes this personally and attacks a man. He is promptly fired. He starts wearing a frog costume and killing off his rivals. Foe of the Hangman.

*See listing for the Crow*

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Intro: BLUE RIBBON COMICS #2 December 1939

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Leader of the Purple gang. Foe of Bob Phantom.

*This is the first MLJ superhero story*

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Intro: HANGMAN COMICS #8 Fall 1943

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Captain Balbo and his crew lose in their battle with the Hangman, It's a lose they don't recover from.

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Intro: Intro: Zip Comics #29, September 1942

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Nazi prison interrogator specializing in torture and foe of the Web.

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Intro: HANGMAN COMICS #2 Spring 1942

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Nazi Agent who teams with the Executioner to battle the Hangman.

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Intro: PEP COMICS #7, August 1940

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Evil genus with incredible large brain/head and a metal clawed hand.

Foe of the Press Guardian.

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Intro: Special Comics #1, Winter 1942

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Linda, refuses when Charles proposes to her saying she could never marry a clown. He kills her and is hunted by the Hangman.

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Intro: Zip Comics #28, August 1942

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Nazi Agent with fanged teeth. Foe of the Web.

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Intro: TOP NOTCH COMICS #11, January 1941

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An old lady who runs a complicated kidnapping scam that replaces Millionaires with Bums. Foe of the Wizard.

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Intro: Black Hood Comics #14, Spring 1945

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Pagini was once one of opera’s greatest talents. When his voice is compared to the sound a crow makes. He starts wearing a crow costume and killing off his rivals. Foe of the Black Hood.

*See listing for the Bullfrog*

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Intro: PEP COMICS #33, November 1942

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A Nazi spy running a museum pretend to fulfill a curse on the Turks but he is actually trying to stop the Turkish delegates from signing a pact allying themselves with America, against the Axis. Foe of the Hangman.

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Intro: PEP COMICS #1, January 1940

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In the Comet's first case Dr. Archer and his gang, use Typhoid germs, to commit murder and collect life insurance money.

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Intro: Shield-Wizard #11, Summer 1943

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5th Columnist and saboteur who arranges "accidents" to scare workers off various jobs, and slow the war effort. Foe of the Wizard.

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Intro: THE SHADOW #4

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An ex-Nazi scientist with a metal arm, who joined with Shiwan Khan to attempt to defeat the Shadow.

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Intro: MIGHTY COMICS #49

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A chalk-white-faced criminal from a future era who came to the 20th Century in order to free the Monster-Master from captivity and to battle Steel Sterling and the Black Hood. His main weapon is a "multi-effect power ring".

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Intro: PEP COMICS #65, January 1948

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Doctor Scott discovers a serum that can bring someone back to life. He commits murder to test his serum and is executed for his crime. Dr. Green brings him back to life with serum. Doctor Scott then hunts down his enemies.

Foe of the Shield.

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Intro: PEP COMICS #3, March 1940

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Hypnotist, who hypnotizes the Comet into robbing and committing acts of murder, when Comet reports back to Zadar he forgets to closed his visor and kills Zadar, releasing him from the spell.

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Intro: MIGHTY CRUSADERS (2nd series) #13

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A super-villain with energy-blasting powers.

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Intro: ZIP COMICS #26, May 1941

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A racketeer who frame Black Jack for murder.

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Intro: ADVENTURES OF THE FLY #13

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A murderer from the year 2261 who killed a scientist to steal his well-armed time machine and brought it back to the 20th Century to search for a hidden treasure, whereupon he encountered and battled the Fly. Member of the Anti-Fly League.

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Intro: MIGHTY COMICS #44

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A costumed female agent of PERIL who uses martial arts and gimmicks in her crimes, and who crossed the path of Shield IV twice.

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Intro: MIGHTY CRUSADERS (2nd series) #4

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A villainess and witch who has lived centuries and who murdered Darkling's mentor. She has illusion powers, among other abilities, and is a member of the Eliminators.

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Intro: MIGHTY CRUSADERS (2nd series) #4

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An ancient evil from beyond the grave, the Druid returns to end the Mighty Crusaders.

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An ex-FBI scientist given stretching powers and an evil nature due to a chemical accident, who nevertheless regrets his criminal doings. A foe of the Shadow.

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Loadstone, Rogue Star, Dream Dragon, and Brontosaurus team up to oppose the Mighty Crusaders.

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Criminal scientist and masked hit man who, in the late
Forties, used a ray of his own making to turn the first Shield into an iron statue. In the 1960's, he was defeated and sent to another dimension by the third Shield. Later, he returned to Earth, amnesiac, but had his memory restored by the Brain Emperor. He then incorporated dimensional-transport devices into his gloves, enabling him to "erase" things by touching them, and killed the Black Hood (Matt Burland).

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A sorcerer from ancient Egypt with fantastic magical powers who was entombed in suspended animation and revived in the 1960's in America. He fought the Comet and Shield but was mummified by contact with his nemesis, Ozbane.

Executioner

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 Japanese Agent who teams up with Captain Swastika. He behead his foes with an axe.

Foe of the Hangman.

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Organized Crime boss.

Foe of the Comet

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Madman with fangs.

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Incredibly strong bald crime boss.

Foe of the Shield

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A small-time crook who stumbled upon a computer invented by a subterranean race, which he used to give himself incredible weapons with which to fight the first Black Hood. The weaponry later dissolved, but the Gadgeteer has designed new weaponry to take its place.

Gourmet

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Villian who uses his cooking skills for crime.

Foe of the Black Hood.

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Scaly 3-eyed monster unleashed on America.

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The Shield's most deadly foes.

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The Hunter is a Nazi Agent operating in occupied France. He wears animal skin over one shoulder and a horned Viking like helmet.

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Iron Fist has a hand made of Iron and and the ability to fly.

Foe of the Web.

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The Jackal is a criminal mastermind who puts on a Hangman suit himself and starts committing murders in the Hangman’s name. He is identified because he has two thumbs on his right hand.

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The Judge is the head of a gang of pirates and using his influence is able to find out which ships carry wealth.

Foe of the Black Hood

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An all-star athlete who became a costumed criminal and battled Shield IV.

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Intro: ADVENTURES OF THE FLY #20

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Super-villain with magnetic powers, and enemy to the Mighty Crusaders.

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A Martian criminal scientist who originally sought to duplicate the powers of the Fly, but was foiled by Fly Girl. Member of the Anti-Fly League.

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The Mad Professor replace the human brain with a mechanical brain to create a master race.

Foe of the Firefly

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A criminal scientist who originally fought Steel Sterling with the aid of a "magnoscooter" that utilized magnetic force and more conventional weapons. He was dragged into the upper atmosphere when he stole Steel's anti-gravity belt, but managed to return to Earth and has modified it and joined it with other devices to allow him greater magnetic and flight abilities.

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A criminal master of martial arts who began as a gas-wielding foe of the Fox called the Gasser.

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Magi is a sorcerer and merman from a race that has been living beneath the oceans for thousands of years.

Foe of Zambini.

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Markov, a French criminal in America for the duration starts his own crime college.

Foe of the Black Hood.

Master

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The master criminal's voice would seemingly come from the heavens decreeing death on the populace and high voltage rays would killing large numbers of people.

Foe of the Comet.

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Princess Ah-Ku was smuggling Chinese into the country when her agents were caught, the agent would kill the Chinese immigrants.

Foe of Bob Phantom

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IProfessor Dezzero raises the living dead in order to take over Hawaii.

Foe of  Steel Sterling

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The Master is able to raise beings like him from the dead as well as demonic creatures.

Foe of Kardak

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Prof. James Stoker,  super-villain and former college professor who gave himself super-strength and became an enemy of Fly-Man.

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Foe of the Shield and Dusty. Green skin, awful teeth, pointed ears and wore a brown suit, cape and hat.

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Warden Lewis, looking for the secrets of eternal life stole life from youths.

Foe of the Wizard.

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Created monser robots "Monstroids" to battle Steel Sterling.

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John Heaslip became the Monster of Shadow Pond with the help of his sister in law, to steel his brother's invention the Radium Ray.

Foe of Mister Satan.

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John Dickson, calling himself Mother Goose, pretended to be an old lady  who was responsible for the death of his estranged family.

Foe of the Hangman.

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A magician conspired against King Tut and was put to death and mummified. When he awakens in a museum, he kills the scientists who found him.

Foe of the Firefly.

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