THE BRAINSTORMS

A decade before Marvel had one of their own! Wait, Doctor Doom? That guy’s Marvel, right? In 1950, DC would have you believe Doctor Doom is their guy (if only because Marvel wasn’t really a thing, yet). Detective Comics #158 features a villain by that name, but he’s inconsequential enough that eventually Marvel could get away with their own Doom. But in the 50s, the only Doom was this one! In April 1950, we see Batman and Robin celebrate their “1000th” case (implying being a

The Cavalier, mid-crime! Batman’s most common nemesis you’ve never heard of! If you’ve been looking for a dumb, campy Bat-foe, look no further! Mortimer Drake, aka the Cavalier, is a relic of a bygone time in comics, so bygone that he missed out on the time he would’ve honestly been most at home! He first appeared in Detective Comics #81, in November 1943. A society fixture in his real identity and life (even an acquaintance of Bruce), Mortimer had an “exotic” collection of