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* SpidersAreScary: The BigBad of ''Victory Comics'' #1 has as his WeaponOfChoice spiders that can drive people into a madness where they think they're spiders themselves.

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'''''The Crusader''''' is a detective hero from UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks, published by Hillman in ''Victory Comics'' #1-4. It concerns a mysterious detective, also called the Man in Black, as he solves various crimes and battles Nazi spies.

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'''''The Crusader''''' is a detective hero from UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks, created by Kermit Jaedicker and published by Hillman in ''Victory Comics'' #1-4. It concerns a mysterious detective, also called the Man in Black, as he solves various crimes and battles Nazi spies.
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[[caption-width-right:250:The Crusader, a.k.a. 'the Man in Black' (who is [[NonIndicativeName dressed in green]])]]
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'''''The Crusader''''' is a detective hero from UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks, published by Hillman in ''Victory Comics'' #1-4. It concerns a mysterious detective, also called the Man in Black, as he solves various crimes and battles Nazi spies.
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* ArchEnemy: Emil Groff, a Gestapo agent with hypnotic eyes, serves as the Crusader's most dangerous and sole recurring foe.
* HeroicWillpower: The Crusader has such a strong will that he's the only man immune to Groff's hypnosis.
* HypnoticEyes: Emil Groff can mind control people into doing whatever he wants, up to and including PsychicAssistedSuicide, via EyeBeams he unleashes.
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* ScoobyDooHoax:
** The BigBad of ''Victory Comics'' #1 is a Nazi spy who disguised himself as a ghost to hide his experiments.
** Count Rustavic, from ''Victory Comics'' #2, disguises himself as a vampire to conceal his theme to get blood for the Nazi soldiers.
* ShoutOut: The Crusader nicknames his arch nemesis Groff Film/{{Svengali}} due to the two characters having similar hypnotic abilities.
* SpidersAreScary: The BigBad of ''Victory Comics'' #1 has as his WeaponOfChoice spiders that can drive people into a madness where they think they're spiders themselves.
* StarterVillain: [[spoiler:Carl Meyer]], a Nazi spy masquerading as a ghost to hide his experiments and secure ownership of his base of operations. He's arrested, presumed to be executed later, by the end of the issue.
* WouldHurtAChild: Count Rustavic, from ''Victory Comics'' #2, steals some blood from a child to further his scheme.
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