Real name: San Yan
A.K.A.: N/A
First appearance: Wonder Woman I#1 (Summer 1942)
Abilities: Spy, also racism
Quotes: "Captives, hear your doom!"
Worst act: Being pretty darn racist even for the time period
Created by: William Moulton Marston (script), Harry G. Peter (pencils/inks)
Yeesh. I realize when the villain of a 1940's comic is Japanese odds are pretty good they're going to come across as pretty bad, but this one is pretty darn bad.
San Yan here is pretending to be Burmese and he has the locals riled up, telling them to kill the local elephants to appease their ancestor's souls. Not sure if that is a Burmese belief, but that is second to the terminal case of jaundice the entire country seems to be suffering from. Hell, even the Burmese comes across as pretty bad, given that they trekked across the Pacific on word of one guy who doesn't even speak their language.
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