Saturday, February 1, 2020

Bring on the Bad Guys: Dekker

Real name: Dekker
First appearance: All-American Comics#16 (July 1940)
Abilities: Manipulation, cheap builder
Worst act: Murder
Created by: Bill Finger (script) and Mart Nodell (art)

This year we'll be taking a look at the Golden Age Green Lantern and who better than his first foe?

Mr. Dekker and his thugs are officially in the construction business. Engineer Alan Scott gets a bridge contract instead of him, so he naturally wrecks the bridge while Scott travels on it. Scott survives and in the wreckage finds a glowing green lantern. You can guess the rest.

So, as far as first villains go, Dekker is a pretty bland fellow. He dies of a heart attack at the end, which was typical for stories at the time period.

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