Landor: The Fresh Monster Maker
Famed Sheena artist Bob Powell used the pseudonym Gregory Torey when he created the character of Landor, Maker Of Monsters. It was originally intended be just a filler in the first issue of Harvey Publications' Speed Comics but went on to have it be a regular feature in the first 11 issues, although each one was short around 4-pages long. Landor was one of the first genuine supervillains to get his own segment in a major comics anthology and not a regular foil for a reoccurring costumed hero. Landor is a generic mad scientist who creates a new monster for each issue, and lather, rinse, repeat. Some have seen him as a ripoff of Dr. Frankenstein, but he evolved into being a hideously deformed figure after surviving a fire and now sporting wearing a reaper robe. Most of Landor's experiments were foiled by the generic adventurer duo of Anthony Torrence and his perpetually single fiance Marcia, occasionally with Anthony's old school chum Kung Fu-Tse who was also a criminal exper...