Real name: Arnold Corbin
First appearance: Green Lantern I#2 (Winter 1942)
Abilities: Forging wills
Worst act: Murder
Created by: Bill Finger (script), Mart Nodell (art)
Winding down here, we take a look at the first villain to take up an entire issue.
Green Lantern decides to throw some business towards lawyer Frank Benton. He finds one in Joe Stromboli. Joe's in a pickle, also an asylum as he claims that millionaire PG Jeffers named him in his will.
Obviously this was enough to get a man committed back in the day. Green Lantern doesn't have time for this legal nonsense and breaks Joe out before hunting for the men who put him in there in the first place.
Mr. Slagg is the lawyer for Lester Payne, who argues that Jeffers named him the sole beneficiary. Slagg ends up murdered, forcing GL and Benton to tackle the case and hunt down who wanted Stromboli out of the picture.
All the evidence points towards a fellow called "Baldy" but who is he? They narrow it down to a few suspects, most of whom work for the Jeffers Corporation, but when one of cleared and the other nearly murdered, who could it be?
Not a bad story, but again we see another corrupt guy in a suit.
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