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Part Two of Black Hand Week, where I show that the creepiest villain around today was originally the biggest goober in comics.
"I hear Death calling my name. I have for as long as I can remember."Really? Well, Black Hand, then your memory is not as long or as good as mine...! Because I remember that your original obsession wasn't death but...
cliches.
Oh, you younguns probably don't believe me, eh? Well, you know what they say, seeing is believing.
See? I told you.
See? I told you.You may believe in seeing; but Black Hand believes in the wisdom of cliches.
So, basically, if your grandmother were a supervillain, she'd be Black Hand.Making a costume out of a body bag is odd. Making a supervillain costume of whatever you have lying around from representing the Mid-Atlantic Leather Convention at the last Gay Pride Parade is even odder. Oh, wait; darn those black and white Showcase Volumes; let me fix that for you:
Anyway, before being revamped by Johns, Black Hand didn't get his "power absorber" from an alien; he invented himself. That's what villain used to do. They used to invent inventions that would have made them millionaires if they had patented them. But villains have no patience for the plodding patent process, so they use these inventions to rob jewelry stores.So, while the original Black Hand was a goober, he was a brilliantly inventive goober, one who was both forewarned and forearmed.
Uh... what? Did Black Hand just talk to ... me? What the==?! More on that little eccentricity in the next segment of Black Hand Week.
