History: (Sea Devils #21) - Dr. Quad created an undersea lab to invent nefarious devices to help him rule the world. He disguised his lab with a false sea-floor made of transparent film, but a sunken ammunition ship crashed through, and he worried his existence would be uncovered. The coast guard sent the Sea Devils to recover the ship, and Quad planned on killing them to silence them. He captured Sea devil Biff Bailey and used his transformation pills to assume his form. He tried to cause accidents as the Sea Devils worked on the ammunition ship, but they soon became wise to his scheme. He lured them into his lab and gloated about his genius, showing them his ultimate weapon, the moly-ray that could transform water into any object of his choosing. He transformed into an octopus to finish off the Devils, but they fought him off by jamming one of his tentacles into a power socket. Quad fled, but left them in a booby trapped room with crushing walls. The Sea Devils used steel rods to jam the walls’ motor, and pursued him. Quad used his moly-ray to create a sea monster, and transformed into Dane Dorrance, and fought the hero. Dane convinced his teammates he was the real deal by recounting how they’d escaped Quads lab. They destroyed the moly-ray, and with it gone the sea monster vanished as well. Quad bemoaned that his life’s work and his promising criminal career had both gone up in smoke.

Comments: Created by Jack Miller? & Howard Purcell.

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