Dr. Deep

DR. DEEP

Real Name: Unrevealed

Class: Human technology-user

Occupation: Would-be world conqueror, mad scientist

Group Affiliation: None

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Underwater mountain lab

First Appearance: Sea Devils #19 (September-October, 1964)

Powers: Dr. Deep was a brilliant inventor. He traveled in an undersea craft that could launch buzz saws, and was armed with a mind-transfer ray that could switch a human’s mind into an animal or automaton, and a control ray that let him hypnotize and command others. He was a skilled roboticist, and had hundreds of robots at his disposal that could read the electronic impulses of his mind to carry out his orders.

History: (Sea Devils #19) - Dr. Deep was a brilliant but twisted scientist who amassed an army of robots, hoping to use them to conquer the seas, and then the world. His latest inventions were a mind-transfer ray to switch people’s minds with others, and a control ray that gave him mental domination over others, and he tested both out on a sea captain and an octopus. His test run went perfectly, but the Sea Devils responded to the situation. Dr. Deep knew he’d run into the heroes of the seven seas eventually, and had four robots in their likeness made up so their minds could be transferred into them and serve him. He put Devils Biff and Nicky’s minds into his robots, but Devils Judy and Dane avoided his beam. He commanded the Sea Devil robots to capture their former friends, but they failed, and the remaining Devils found Deep’s undersea hq. He transferred Dane’s mind into a thresher shark, and told them he was leaving to take Biff and Nicky’s human bodies from the Devil’s ship the Sea Witch. Dane, as a shark, and Judy tried to stop him, but he transferred Dane’s mind into a tiny fish, and assured himself Judy would cause him no problems. As he prepared to transfer Dane and Judy’s minds into his robots Judy got the drop on him, she’d disguised herself as one of his robots, and easily overpowered him. The Devils told him his dreams of conquest were over, and he’d only be another prisoner captured by the Sea Devils.

Comments: Created by an unnamed writer & Howard Purcell.