Super Villain Monday: let there be Sunlight

I apologize for the lateness and brevity of today's entry.  I hope to make it up to you in the coming days

First off.  This is Doc Savage.  He was a hero back in the days when comics were called pulps and there weren't so many pictures.  ( how condescending can I be?)

Doc Savage was raised to become the world's most powerful intellect and a man of unparalleled strength. A towering bronze colossus with hypnotic eyes that stir like pools of flake-gold.

This is the villain, he is the biggest badass in the world, he is smart, he is strong, he is vicious.  He hates Doc Savage and wants to rule the world.  Did I mention that he's totally nuts.

Today's pop culture history lesson is about the only villain who ever survived to taunt Doc Savage more than once.

Every hero has their ultimate nemesis, but John Sunlight is crazier than the Joker, smarter than Moriarity, and more fixated than Doctor Doom.  He is the template for every other evil genius who ever graced a comic book panel .

Sunlight usually dresses in military type suits of various colors, but always in a monochrome, so , all black, all green, all brown.

John Sunlight(alias; real name unknown) is arguably Doc Savage's greatest enemy. The character matched Doc Savage in intelligence yet also had an animalistic cunning which made him a great threat to Savage. He is also more physically powerful than Doc. He however uses his talents to pursue his goal of world dictatorship. At times of he has been known to emit a low growl subconsciously, very similar to Savage's trilling. His ultimate goal is to end humanity's problems such as war, famine, and intolerence by bringing the world under his control. The two have shown immense respect for each other, and Sunlight has even offered to spare Docs life if he joins him. Sunlight is tall and gaunt with strangely long fingers. He has a hypnotic stare which only the most intelligent or determined can resist.

He was also the only enemy to appear twice in the original pulp stories.

Sunlight has also appeared in a few of the comic book adaptations of Doc Savage:

• "The Monarch of Armageddon" by Mark Ellis and Darryl Banks, published by Millennium Publications in 1991. Set shortly after The Devil Genghis the story depicts Sunlight's systematic destruction of everything Doc holds dear. In the concluding chapter, Sunlight apparently commits suicide rather than have his life saved by Doc Savage.
• First Wave published by DC Comics.

I don't know if anybody cares about Doc Savage anymore, but in the history of the art of sequential storytelling, Doc was one of the forefathers.  Find the books, read the comics, you can even watch the old movie, but I'm not insisting or recommending, some things are better left buried.