Real name: Hugo Vreekill
A.K.A.: none
First Appearance: New York World's Fair#2 (July 1940)
Abilities: mad scientist
Weapons: steel melting machine
Quotes: "With my machine I can become the most powerful man in the world!"
Worst Act: blackmail
Created by: Bill Finger (writer) and Bob Kane (artist-credited), George Roussos(inks)
Here may be one of the more obscure villains. For a brief period of time DC made special time in comics to promote the World's Fair. When it was held in New York in 1940, a group of heroes were included to talk about how neat everything was, Batman included.
While visiting New York to take in the World's Fair, the Dynamic Duo hear about the Great West River Bridge collapsing. Investigating, they discover a scientist (Vreekill) who's developed a machine capable to melting steel. Vreekill is blackmailing the city by threatening over bridges plus he's going to free all the prisoners in the local pen. Can our heroes stop him in time?
Not terrible, but Vreekill is pretty much your standard mad scientist. He's motivated by money (and not 'making those fools pay') and that's it. He doesn't even survive the story.
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