Could It Be...Satanas?
Not too many comic villains can claim that they are "The Most Evil Man In The Universe", but Satanas gave it his all in his two comic book appearances. Rural Home, also known as Croydon Publishing, had a peculiar anthology titled Red Band Comics in 1944 which was called that because the interior stories had a genuine red banner on each page and had nothing to do with audience ratings, but Red Band's weirdest feature is that out of the four issue run only two of them were original as Issues 2 and 4 were just reprints of the previous issues, including the covers. Satanas appears in the first issue, however he also appears on the cover of Issue 3 along with the hero Bogey Man on each one even though the two characters don't actually meet up, only briefly in the creation of the parodic superhero Captain Milksop, but that is another story. Satanas' origin story begins a few millennia ago on Pluto in a tale drawn by Hangman artist Sam Cooper. Among the other amoral Plutonians, Satanas is considered the worst of them all, so the green-skinned immortal cyclopes banish him in a one-way rocket trip, even though the nasty alien manages to finally take control of it after a prolonged period of nine centuries. He plans on taking over the Earth by hijacking the radio waves and demands all the money in Fort Knox, but why an alien invader would covet Earth currency and be so naive as to publicly announce his upcoming caper probably only makes sense to a deranged Plutonian. Satanas stuns all the armed forces with his paralysis ray and makes off with some gold, but the government agents end the story by laughing over that the fact in this future timeline Americans don't use the gold standard anymore, which makes you wonder why the army was still stockpiling the useless mineral in Fort Knox anymore. Satanas' next appearance was in the Zoom Comics one-shot where the obnoxious alien decides to use a special vibration he discovered playing the violin which can destroy a whole skyscraper and announces via radio that he'll use it on a bridge. He fails after the army find him and try shooting him even though he is immortal, but apparently not invulnerable as one soldier punches him into the water. The narration reminds us that Satanas can't be killed and will be back again someday, despite that this was his last appearance. Satanas is another one of the comic book bad guys that managed to get his own solo segment in a comic, but his advanced Plutonian science couldn't save him from an old-fashioned uppercut.

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