Bold Fashion Choices--Brown On Brown!!

First up, a bit of context--in the Golden Age, you really don't want to tick off a brassy female reporter by putting her favorite subject/boyfriend (?) in the slammer:



Damn right...so the next day we get a multi-page special alerting the people to just how cool the Black Hood is (note--this couldn't happen in the current Marvel & DC, except in Justice League, where the DC press corps believes the JLers should replace the government...):



Now, that is a pretty cool use of 1942 coloring to simulate what a black & white picture section might look like in a color comic book.

But that same coloring effect provides us with a...drab...view of the villainry of Whateversville.

Mark Horley:

The Mist:

Scorpio, The Astrologer Of Death:

Sense a motif yet?

The Animal Man:

The Mad Killer Of The Opera:

And, of course, The Skull:

Yes, I know, this was an attempt to emulate black & white, so my picking on every villains' brown-on-brown color scheme wouldn't be fair. Especially as I'm too lazy to go and look up for myself their actual color schemes.

Still, Black Hood's villains sure do love their capes, don't they?

P.S. Scorpio, The Astrologer Of Death is the best name for a villain EVER!!

From Top-Notch Comics #24 (1942)

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Oh, come on now...did you really think that mere laziness could overcome my nerdly (anal) thoroughness? Here are the full-color appearances of these dastardly villains, from assorted earlier issues of Top-Notch Comics:

Mark Horley:

The Mist:

Scorpio, The Astrologer Of Death:

"The Stars Drip Blood". God, I love this guy...

The Animal Man:

The Mad Killer Of The Opera:

And, of course, The Skull:

There, happy now?