Mid-1941

Ian Karkull, Pt. 2

After Dr. Fate left Ian Karkull a shadow to roam the world, Karkull met another villain, Wotan, whom, Dr. Fate had encased in an air bubble and left to die.

The diabolic duo capture Inza and when Dr. Fate inevitably recused her…

Update: Blackhawk

When we first heard of Death Mayhew, he was secretly collaborating with the Germans. In 1941…

He subsequently worked with Russian agent Fyodor Vlaslov to acquire an atomic bomb and formed the White Lions, a sort of mirror universe Blackhawk Squadron. In one aerial fight between the two squadrons, Blackhawk pilot Captain Stanislaus Drozdowski was killed.

Mayhew’s final target was New York City and the Empire State Building, but there he faced his old foe, Janos Prohaska, who shot and killed him.

Tarantula

When we last saw crime writer John Law, he was trying to get his “newfangled toy” (a television) to work. With his best-selling success, “the moneys flowed almost as freely as the coffee.”

Penthouse… car… housekeeper… funny how many things have become must-haves, once you’re no longer a have-not.

One summer night, he saw the Sandman in action and began to work on two ideas: becoming a hooded crime buster himself and using a spider motif. This led him to an interview with Dian Belmont, who gave him a sketch of a costume the Sandman didn’t use.

Law had no gas mask like Sandman, wings like Hawkman, or magic ring like Green Lantern, but he did have “a mind which enjoyed toying with a scientific problem every bit as must as a literary one.” And so…

UpDate: JSA

When the Flash was called to other duties, he moved to honorary member status in the Society creating an opening for the team. Johnny Thunder assumed it was his to fill; why, even his girlfriend gave him permission to do it. But that’s jumping the gun, so…