Each villain gets a full page of history and a full page of artwork from wonderfully vintage comics. This collection affectionately spotlights the most ridiculous, bizarre, and cringe-worthy criminals ever published, from fandom favorites like MODOK and Egg Fu. Fish, The Roach Wrangler, Snowflame, Starfire, etc. Then it’s on to the Silver Age, with 31 more weirdos: Mirror Man, Stilt Man, Uglyman, The Human Flying Fish, Elasto, Egg Fu, Doctor Cesspoole, Cat Girl, Atom-Jaw, Praying Mantis Man…you get the drift.įrom the Modern Age, we find another 25: Golden Fuhrer, Ghetto-Blaster, Doctor Bong, Mr. The heroes are sometimes as odd as the villains. Three long parts start with 52 wild characters from the Golden Age, foils for heroes and heroines from the original Black Cat and Silver Streak, to The Black Hood, Wonder Man, Bulletman, The Green Lama, even Capt. Capsule histories and splash page art, about half from the Golden Age, then thru Silver to Modern.ĭrawing on the entire history of the medium, The Legion of Regrettable Supervillains affectionately and hilariously profiles oddball criminals from the history of comics. Meet D-list rogues like Brickbat (choice of weapon: poisonous bricks), Robbing Hood (steals from the poor to give to the rich), Swarm (a crook made of bees Nazi bees). In his follow-up to The League of Regrettable Superheroes, author Jon Morris presents over a hundred of the strangest, most stupefying supervillains to ever see print in comics.

But not all villains are dangerous-some are incompetent, comical, or just…weird.

Pin-Up & Adult –You must be 18 or olderĮvery hero needs a villain.

The legion of regrettable superheroes