Hooded Hunchback (Earth-Two)

Hooded Hunchback
Mainstream Universe‎, 1930s-1950s
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Real Name	Morgan (first name unknown)
Main Alias	Hooded Hunchback
Status
Alignment	Bad
Identity	Secret Identity
Citizenship	American
Occupation	Lieutenant governor
Characteristics
Gender	Male
Hair	Brown
Origin
Universe	Earth-Two
Creators	Gardner Fox · Jack Burnley
First Appearance	Adventure Comics #73 (April, 1942)

The Hooded Hunchback was an enemy of Starman (Ted Knight).

History

Lieutenant governor Morgan had a massive gambling addiction, and used state funds to fuel them. As he needed to repay them before the next review, he hatched a plot to steal the Taylor fortune. The inheritence of Hetty Taylor's money came with one catch: the heirs could never travel to California as her father died in that state during the gold rush. As he was a distant cousin he was in line for the money, but he had to kill and discredit the others first. He killed them in their native New York, and used a rocket to shoot them from to California in a matter of hours. After the first heir, Clifford Taylor was found dead in San Francisco, local police alerted the FBI, as Taylor was seen alive on the other side of the country three hours earlier. FBI ace Woodley Allen alerted Starman. The Hooded Hunchback then set out to his men to kidnap Colonel Taylor and his son Jim from a race track in Long Island, and family friend Doris Lee was kidnapped as well, but escaped during the trip to the villain's base in Clay Banks, New Jersey.

Starman infiltrated the base, but was knocked out and placed in a rocket. He was shot into space and would have plummeted to his death had he not broken free. He caught up with another rocket, fired earlier, containing the colonel. High in the atmosphere, he freed him and brought him safely back to earth. Just as the Hunchback was about to kill Jim Taylor in a similar fashion, Starman intervened and stopped him. Morgan was exposed and arrested.

Notes

• This version of Hooded Hunchback (Earth-Two), including all history and corresponding appearances, was erased from existence following the collapse of the original Multiverse in the 1985–86 Crisis on Infinite Earths event and later restored following the rebirth of the infinite Multiverse during the Dark Crisis of 2022-2023. Even though other versions of the character may have appeared, this information does not apply to those versions.

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