Real name: Unrevealed
First appearance: Flash Comics#5 (May 1940)
Abilities: Knowing art, theft
Worst act: Attempted murder, murder
Quote: "Oh! This is not Delacy's work...I've been tricked!"
Created by: Gardner Fox (script) and Everett E. Hibbard (art)
For this time out, we see the first proper super villain, or at least someone in a costume. His shtick is buying up artworks from various artists and then murdering them thus driving up the value.
He's been successful for a bit, at least until he tries the same thing on the artist Boleau, who happens to know the Flash. Despite the man's guns and thugs he's easily arrested.
Pretty good story, although I would ask why is this calling himself 'the Vandal'? He's not vandalizing the work but driving up the value. Plus his robes make him look like an understudy to the Monk.
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