Dr. Z

Golden Age Origin
Dr. Z is an elderly thin bald man and an international spy with a huge price on his head. He keeps a mansion and lab full of death traps in a remote area. He's also a master scientist, working on a device that will pick up the thoughts of others. In his lab, he has a brutish assistant in Hagor and a kidnapped blonde named Mary Brown whom he subjects some of his experiments.

To finish his thought receiver, he kidnaps Professor Larry Hunter, a psychology professor, expert on the human brain and who also was working along similar lines. He is a bit mentally unhinged, referring to himself as "great Dr. Z" and sometimes in the third person and forgets Hunter's name and refers to him as Turner. He is apparently killed by one of his own deathtraps as Hunter has finished the device and Z's thoughts reveal the workings of a trap-door to some underground lake or river that Hunter then activates.

Golden Age Appearances

 * Wham Comics #2