Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Bring on the Bad Guys: Pug Deagan

Real name: Pug Deagan
First appearance: All-American Comics#33 (December 1941)
Abilities: Gangster
Worst act: Racketeering, attempted murder
Created by: Bill Finger (script), Mart Nodell (art)

Cab drivers of Capital City are trying to organize a union. Gangster Pug Deagan thinks this is a wonderful idea. So much so he wants all the drivers to join his union. Union leader Hefty Martin disagrees, so Pug sends some of his boys to convince Hefty, i.e. break a few bones.

This gets Doiby involved, and thus the Green Lantern. Similar to the Superman yarn from a few years earlier (Action Comics#13), GL wages war on the gangsters and gets the cabbies a honest union.

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