Sunday, February 7, 2021

Bring on the Bad Guys: Black Mike

Real name: Black Mike

First appearance: Flash Comics#7 (July 1940)

Abilities: Racketeer 

Worst act: Kidnapping, destroying cars, attempted fixing of races 

Quote: "I'll break you Smith! For not telling me about your latest invention-"

Created by: Gardner Fox (script) and Everett E. Hibbard (art)  


This one opens with an interesting question, namely what  would Jay Garrick need with a car?

Jay's out for a drive when a ray disintegrates the roadster. Peeved and perplexed, he investigates and finds the ray's origin; namely a scientist being forced to use his ray by gangster Black Mike.  Yeah, Mike is forcing the doc to use a ray that melts metal without a trace to stack odds in an upcoming road race. 

Why does Fox keep having his villains fix races?


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