Villain |
First appearance |
Description
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Hath-Set/Dr. Hastor |
Flash Comics #1 (January 1940) |
The reincarnation of Hath-Set, priest of Anubis who slew both Prince Khufu and Shiera (who would both be reincarnated as Carter Hall and Shiera Sanders), Dr. Anton Hastor attempted to use a lightning machine to offer new sacrifices to Anubis.
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Alexander the Great |
Flash Comics #2 (February 1940) |
Wealthy, bald, corpulent inventor of a gravity ray, who attempted to use it to blackmail the world into submitting to his rule.
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Una Cathay |
Flash Comics #3 (March 1940) |
With her associate, Russian scientist Count Torgoff, and her henchman, Rolf, Una arranged the apparent death of Carter Hall’s college friend Dick Blendon and kept him trapped, in pain and partially paralyzed, in a chemical tank, one of several in which she stored other scientists and thinkers, in order to secure from him the secret to eternal life. Una had access to voodoo magic, which she attempted to use to kill Hawkman.
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Thought Terror |
Flash Comics #4 (April 1940) |
Powerful hypnotist and cult leader.
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Trygg the Sorcerer |
All Star Comics #1 (Summer 1940) |
A powerful sorcerer that controls an army of zombies.
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Sheba, Queen of the Desert |
Flash Comics #6 (June 1940) |
Self-proclaimed Queen of the Desert, Sheba was a lovely blue-skinned woman who led an uprising and eventually built an army, operating out of Istanyulq, with the goal of establishing a pan-Arab state.
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Statue Man |
Flash Comics #7 (July 1940) |
Boris Nickaloff molded a statue out of “plasm-clay” and injected it with adrenaline, bringing it to life as a bullet-proof, white-marble-skinned golem he named Czar, but who was called variously the Statue Man and the Unkillable Man when Nickaloff sent it to steal for him.
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Professor Kitzoff |
Flash Comics #8 (August 1940) |
Scientific genius who discovered how to harness the power of sunspots in order to cause madness and destruction.
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Kogats |
Flash Comics #9 (September 1940) |
An undersea race with telepathic powers and a desire to conquer the surface world with their matter-destroying ray, they were led by King Jupo, a horned Kogat more than 10 feet tall.
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Nyola |
All Star Comics #2 (September 1940) |
The priestess for an Aztec rain god Tlaloc, Nyola gained the power to control the weather. Later a member of the Monster Society of Evil.
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Satana the Tiger Girl |
Flash Comics #13 (January 1941) |
Sara Descarl was a brilliant scientist and surgeon who discovered how to transplant human brains into the bodies of tigers, which then followed her every command, both in her stage act as “Satana the Tiger Girl” and in her extortion-murder plots.
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Karvac |
Flash Comics #14 (February 1941) |
Summoned Scorio, the alligator god of the Phoenicians, who taught him how to create flame guns with which he equipped a small army he intended to use to conquer the world.
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Hand |
Flash Comics #15 (March 1941) |
Edwin Thayer somehow created a flying disembodied hand that murdered his brother for him and would have been sent to kill his niece Teddy, the sole other surviving heir, before his scheme was undermined by his murderous floozy girlfriend Sandra.
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Golden Mummy |
Flash Comics #17 (May 1941) |
Dr. Selkirk, spurned lover of opera singer Camilla Cordova, disguised himself as the Golden Mummy and hired a gang he painted in gold paint.
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Hood |
Flash Comics #19 (July 1941) |
Pratt Palmer, unhinged but brilliant physicist, invented a “cold light” device that released a bolt of destruction.
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Argot |
Flash Comics #26 (February 1942) |
With his assistant, the dwarf Iago, Armond Argot developed a means to transfer their brains into the bodies of men and women they held prisoner. Argot also wielded hypnotic powers and could read the mind of anyone he held fixed with his hypnotic stare.
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Benjamin Brock |
Flash Comics #29 (May 1942) |
Explorer and botanist who discovered orchids that released sleeping gas and a dangerous sentient “plantman.”
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Johnny Law |
Flash Comics #31 (July 1942) |
Created a mechanical craft disguised as a giant roc as well as a robot duplicate of Hawkgirl.
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Coin |
Flash Comics #32 (August 1942) |
Thief who used gimmicky coins to aid him in his burglaries.
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Father Time |
Flash Comics #33 (September 1942) |
A brash young scientist traveled across the world, obtaining various plants reputed to enhance mental capacity, and developed a brew that gave him the wisdom of the ages while aging his body rapidly to old age. He wielded a scythe that shot a dart, made from a metal that dissolves once in the heat of the body, delivering a poison not known to modern science.
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Dwarf |
Flash Comics #36 (December 1942) |
The dwarf Amos Gander operated the police lost and found department, where he ran a scheme in which specially stamped parcels of stolen goods would be distributed to crooks.
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Chance |
Flash Comics #37 (January 1943) |
A tall, thin man with a ghastly visage, Chance operated an illegal casino in which wealthy men could bet with their lives to resolve their debts.
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Letter |
Flash Comics #45 (September 1943) |
The janitor at a historical museum became a secret crime lord calling himself “The Letter” because of his practice of communicating with his henchmen via letters they would retrieve by swapping busts of historical scientists (whose accomplishments set the theme for the next crime) with busts of criminals.
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Human Dynamo |
Flash Comics #49 (January 1944) |
The chemist Danford March became a living electric power generator in a lab accident. Afraid of harming others in his condition, he exiled himself and returned to the city at night to steal in order to secretly research a cure for his condition. He covered himself in liquid rubber and channeled his power through his hands.
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Hummingbird |
Flash Comics #52 (April 1944) |
Ornithologist Hester Morgan had multiple scientific degrees but found sexism got in the way of her efforts to use her training to make money, so she fashioned winglike gliders and used a blinding magnesium flashbulb to launch a one-woman crime spree, with a specialty in stealing jewels. She later returned with a grudge against Hawkgirl.[1]
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Simple Simon |
Flash Comics #53 (May 1944) |
Simple Simon was Simon Atwell, who grew up in a tenement on the wrong side of the tracks, idolizing gunmen and bootleggers. Believing his idols were caught when their schemes got too complex, he applied his genius to pulling off advanced crimes using no more than three simple aids every time (such as a diamond ring, chewing gum, and wire to rob a jewelry store), as a sort of MacGyver of crime.
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Monocle |
Flash Comics #64 (April–May 1945) |
Jonathan Cheval, an honest businessman in the field of optics, loses his business because of a criminal scheme and seeks revenge on the people who cheated him, using monocles he invents with a range of superpowers.
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Fussy Dan Nash |
Flash Comics #67 (October–November 1945) |
A masked criminal, with his henchman/butler “Chimp,” who operated an antiques shop and funded his lavish lifestyle, including his repeatedly redecorated apartment, by stealing rare objects for wealthy black market purchasers.
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Raven |
Flash Comics Miniature (April 1946) |
A hand-gliding criminal.
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Hawkman #17 (January 1967) |
Joey Makk is a bird trainer that took to a raven costume and tried to steal a previously undiscovered book by Edgar Allan Poe.
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Trata |
Flash Comics #71 (May 1946) |
Rebel of the peaceful city of humanoid birds, Feithera.
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Pan |
Flash Comics #75 (September 1946) |
The mischievous god crossed the barrier into the human realm and caused chaos in Mardi Gras by turning costumed revelers into mythical creatures when he blew his pipes.
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Lasso |
Flash Comics #85 (July 1947) |
A strangler who uses a faux film company to stage real robberies.
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Purple Pilgrim |
Flash Comics #86 (August 1947) |
Hidden Valley cut itself off from the outside world in 1637, living a quasi-Amish lifestyle into the present, and fell prey to the machinations of a crook who became “The Purple Pilgrim” and led a crusade to slay all descendants of the cruel Judge Sanders, including Shiera Sanders, the Hawkgirl.
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Foil |
Flash Comics #87 (September 1947) |
Ingenious crook with a penchant for swinging around a fencing foil.
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Gentleman Ghost |
Flash Comics #88 (October 1947) |
"Gentleman" Jim Craddock is a ghostly terror out to defeat Hawkman and Hawkgirl.
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Acrobat |
Flash Comics #89 (November 1947) |
Gyp Haines kidnapped the circus acrobat “Aero” and forced him to teach him and his gang all he knew, then killed him and put his new acrobatic skills to use in plotting daring crimes.
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Flying Bandits |
Flash Comics #93 (March 1948) |
John Upton, secretary for Mr. Kendall, used jet-propelled gas balloons shaped like horses so that he and his gang appeared to be Old West bandits on flying horses, which he used to rob valuable cargo being delivered on Kendall Airlines aircraft.
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Witch Doctor |
Flash Comics #97 (July 1948) |
Famous explorer Craig Evans donned a giant witch doctor mask to try to force Hawkman and Hawkgirl to reveal where they had hidden jewels stolen by his gang in a hold-up aided by an elephant stampede.
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Ralph Johnson |
Flash Comics #102 (December 1948) |
One of Carter Hall’s fellow scientists, Johnson stole Hall’s radar-control device and used it to guide his own invention, plastisteel bubbles, which he could selectively render permeable in order to steal armored cars and other valuables while in his guise as a masked crook.
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Human Fly |
Flash Comics #100 (October 1948) |
Jonathan Rotor is the size of a fly with the strength of a man.
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