Sunday, February 5, 2017

Bring on the Bad Guys: Carl Kruger

Real name: Carl Kruger
A.K.A.: None
First Appearance: Detective Comics I#33 (November 1939)
Abilities: Leader of the Scarlet Horde
Weapons: Fully armed airships
Quotes: "Master of the world, another Napoleon..."
Worst Act: Bombing Gotham City from the air
Created by: Gardner Fox/Bill Finger (writer) and Bob Kane (artist-credited), Sheldon Moldoff (letters)

Probably the most notable things from issue 33 is the first proper telling of Batman's origin, but as to the story itself Kruger is a mad man obsessed with Napoleon. He also has airships and bombs Gotham to rubble.

He has a neat visual certainly, and his schemes are certainly big scale. No blackmail here, no, he's going for wide scale destruction. The Batman, and his Bat-gyro, make short work of him and by the end of the tale he's stone dead.

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