The Snake
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| − | A cunning murderer, clad in a scaly, yellow, orange-spotted costume resembling the skin of a giant snake, who kills his victims with double-pronged lances tipped with the venom of a deadly serpent. He is in reality Bill Chantey, the foreman of the Allerton Construction Company’s Holloway Tunnel project, and a longtime collector of snakes, whose bitterness at being repeatedly passed over for promotion ''(“For years I slaved to make the Allerton Construction Company a success, and yet it was always others who got the big promotions. I vowed to ruin the company at any cost!â€)'' leads him to brutally murder several of his company’s sandhogs before he is finally hospitalized after being | + | A cunning murderer, clad in a scaly, yellow, orange-spotted costume resembling the skin of a giant snake, who kills his victims with double-pronged lances tipped with the venom of a deadly serpent. He is in reality Bill Chantey, the foreman of the Allerton Construction Company’s Holloway Tunnel project, and a longtime collector of snakes, whose bitterness at being repeatedly passed over for promotion ''(“For years I slaved to make the Allerton Construction Company a success, and yet it was always others who got the big promotions. I vowed to ruin the company at any cost!â€)'' leads him to brutally murder several of his company’s sandhogs before he is finally hospitalized after being accidentally bitten by one of his own poisonous snakes during a climactic confrontation with [[Superman]] (S No. 18/4, Sep/Oct 1942: “The Snakeâ€). |
Revision as of 22:32, 18 August 2006
A cunning murderer, clad in a scaly, yellow, orange-spotted costume resembling the skin of a giant snake, who kills his victims with double-pronged lances tipped with the venom of a deadly serpent. He is in reality Bill Chantey, the foreman of the Allerton Construction Company’s Holloway Tunnel project, and a longtime collector of snakes, whose bitterness at being repeatedly passed over for promotion (“For years I slaved to make the Allerton Construction Company a success, and yet it was always others who got the big promotions. I vowed to ruin the company at any cost!â€) leads him to brutally murder several of his company’s sandhogs before he is finally hospitalized after being accidentally bitten by one of his own poisonous snakes during a climactic confrontation with Superman (S No. 18/4, Sep/Oct 1942: “The Snakeâ€).
